№71, (2010)
07.12.2010 - 00:00
WikiLeaks, secrets, and lies
SINGAPORE – The latest information dump from WikiLeaks offers fascinating insights into the workings of the US State Department that will keep foreign policy wonks and conspiracy theorists...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
EVENT
Former US secretaries of state voice support for START
Five former US state secretaries who worked for Republican presidents — Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, George Schultz, James...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
When football means more than just football
On November 27, when the Ukrainian nation honored the Holodomor victims’ memory, Anatolii Tymoshchuk played the Bayern Munich-Eintracht Frankfurt match with a mourning ribbon. With this...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
One-dimensional perception
BERLIN — “Klitschko brothers, Chornobyl, a ‘granary’ during the Soviet Union times, and maybe also the Crimea.” In the opinion of Niko Lange, the head of the Kyiv...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
“Why does our television limit my rights?”
The, management of the Ukrainian TV channels is becoming an increasingly popular target, along with politicians, for civic initiatives and protests. For example, last week, due to multiple...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Averse pipeline extends to the West
Poland plans to increase its energy security by means of intensifying cooperation with Ukraine. Bogdan Borusewicz, the marshal of the Polish Senate (upper chamber of the parliament) announced this...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Revolution: in the streets or in the minds?
The word “revolution” has become trendy in Ukraine. Thus, recently the PinchukArtCentre invited different people – artists, journalists, and art critics – to reflect on tradition and revolution, and...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1900: Kateryna Bilokur, folk artist of Ukraine, is born in Poltava oblast. 1917: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary. 1921: The RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR sign an interim agreement with Austria...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Making people think
A day of Den has been held for the fifth time at the Volyn Lesia Ukrainka National University. However, its cultural and intellectual impresa exceeded the limits of one educational establishment only...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Wooden churches must be saved
There are approximately 2,000 wooden churches in Ukraine. They are unique monuments of national architecture, most of which have no analogues anywhere in the world. Eight of them are nominated for...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Dniprogas case: round two
Dnipropetrovsk — The case of the gas explosion in Dnipropetrovsk in 2007, in which a high-rise residential building on Mandrykivska St. 127 was destroyed and 23 people, including 13 children perished...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
A pan-European figure
From a historical perspective Ukraine is a European country, and its future is in the European Union. This opinion is shared by the head of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Serge Lifar competition is being revived
Vadym Pysariev, art director of the Solovianenko Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Donetsk, informed The Day about the competition’s revival, and that the Serge Lifar International Ballet...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Underground kamikazes
Ukraine’s coal industry has once again suffered a terrible accident. This regular occurrence is “distinguished” by one feature — the number of victims since the beginning of this year closely...
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Donetsk historians seek truth
Donetsk – On the last day of fall Donetsk saw a presentation of the book The Holodomor of 1932 -1933 in Ukraine According to the Documents of the Branch State Archives of the Security Service...