№69, (2010)

“I swear and I am going curse/You persistently/ for thousands years,/Because…/ Because I want / go to the toilet, But Russia has none.”Sergei Yesenin put these words in the mouth of the character of...

James Mace Civic Stand Prize was founded on the initiative of Larysa Ivshyna, editor-in-chief of The Day, in 2008 on the 75th anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932-33. Last year the first prize...

While in 20th-century literature there are a few authors who reacted to the tragic events of 1932-33 in Ukraine, the reaction from the visual arts milieu was virtually non-existant. In fact,...

Belgians plan to develop freight shipping on the DniproThe Belgian stevedoring company Agro-Maas NV plans to invest 125 million euros in the development of freight shipping on the Dnipro, said the...

The national project “Open World: Creating an Information Com­mu­ni­cation Network on a National Level” has recently received some unexpected but substantial support. In Baku, during a meeting of the...

Brussels – Ukraine has been seeking to conclude the EU As­so­ciation Agreement and can­ce­ling the visa regime with the countries of the European com­munity for a long...

1849: Wilhelm Kotarbinski, one of the organizers the Society of Kyiv Artists who took part in the decoration of St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, is born. 1867: The Russian Empire’s first electric...

NEW DELHI – The agreement at the NATO summit meeting in Lisbon on a transition plan to help end the war in Afghanistan within the next four years raises troubling questions about regional...

The Day’s readers first became familiarized with the work of the photographer Kostiantyn Bobryshchev during the mini photo exhibit “Spring On-line” from the series “The Day...

Mark Epshtein (1899-1949) was one of the leading artists of the Culture League. Together with other famous artists-innovators (Aleksandr Tyshler, Lazar Lissitzky, Boris Aronson, Joseph Chaikov,...

The Supreme Court thus granted the RF Ministry of Justice’s official request that this NGO’s activities be stopped because of “transgressions” detected in its “economic activities.” The said...

The Russian Federation’s State Duma recently made a statement on occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. According to the do­cument, “the attempts to put the...

Kyiv’s Maidan has been gathering over 10,000 people from all over Ukraine on each day of the previous week. Those were mainly entrepreneurs, rallying against the adoption of the new Tax Code. The...

Taras Prokhasko’s works are interesting, calm and somewhat meditative. He produces a similar impression in person. Prokhasko belongs to those writers whose new books are eagerly expected by...

The events of the past several weeks, which brought many entrepreneurs to the streets to protect their economic freedoms, showed that Ukrainian society is on the verge of an important turning point...