№67, (2011)
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Congregational prayer
We will all pray and light candles in memory of close and dear ones on November 26. Candles will be lit in churches, homes (placed on windowsills), on city squares. We will each remember names only...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Ritual breads from a hundred villages of Ukraine
National Commemoration Exhibit of Ritual Breads “Pechu, pechu khlibchyk...” (I am baking bread) and the play Grinders will take place at the Ivan Honchar Museum on November 25 and 26....
24.11.2011 - 00:00
“The government played good cop and bad cop”
The adoption of the new law on the parliamentary elections speeded up the consolidating processes among the Ukrainian parties. It had an immediate effect. Realizing that the situation is hopeless...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1905: Mutiny breaks out on board the cruiser Ochakov and other ships of the Black Sea Fleet. 1934: The Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR adopt a decree...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Partners in short supply
The EU-Ukraine 2011 summit on financing and investing in energy industry has ended in the Austrian capital. Quite a few bank heads, representatives of the European Commission and, most importantly,...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Donetsk Chornobyl veterans: fighting alone for the common interest
A week has passed since Chornobyl veterans started their hunger-strike in Donetsk. The protest began on November 15, when more than 40 people gathered at the pension fund offices in Donetsk and...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
A new project aims to lift the “iron curtain” between Ukrainian doctors and the wider world
Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund (CCRDF), founded by immigrants from Ukraine Dr. Zenon Matkivsky and his wife Nadia, has decided to help propel Ukraine’s healthcare system into the...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Things are not so good for them?
If members of the Russian ruling tandem (also United Russia leaders) began to speak almost in a Communist Party language on the eve of the election, this means that United Russia’s chances to...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Only 5 percent of hotels in Ukraine have passed the categorization for establishing their star-rating – expert
Ihor Kanievsky, the coordinator of the CHECK Center of Consumer Control said that only five percent of hotels in Ukraine have passed the categorization for establishing their star-rating and can...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Winning on third attempt
As expected, the conservative People’s Party won a convincing victory in early parliamentary elections in Spain, held on November 21. Moreover, gaining almost 45 percent of the vote, the...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
Egypt’s headless revolution
CAIRO – “The man who taught me to sacrifice my heart for Egypt is dead,” said Vivian Magdi, mourning her fiance. Michael Mosad was killed in the Maspiro area on October 9, when an armored vehicle hit...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
The world is made of restrictions
The play Fat Pig by modern American writer Neil LaBute, which has been showed widely in the US, has not been practically staged in Europe. The production involved the young artistes, such as Iryna...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
<i>The Day</i> announces laureate of the James Mace Civic Stand Prize
The James Mace Civic Stand Prize was founded by Larysa Ivshyna in 2009. According to The Day’s editor-in-chief “it is always hard to maintain the civic stand, but nevertheless, it should be done,...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
<i>The Day</i>: an island of truth and free thinking
Just yesterday, going through James Mace’s archives and looking for something that hasn’t been yet published in The Day newspaper I suddenly saw a separate piece of paper. It fell right...
24.11.2011 - 00:00
When quasi-liberalism turns into total Soviet-style mentality
The topics that society has poorly learned tend to come back – which in fact happened on September 30, the anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, at the Shuster Live TV studio. Such delicate...