№77, (2010)

What is the secret of China’s success? How did it manage to become the world’s second economy, and continue growing despite the crisis? This is the subject of an exclusive interview with Yurii...

FILM PREMIERE: MY JOY The full-length live-action debut of the renowned documentary director Serhii Loznytsia, My Joy (Ukraine-Germany-the Netherlands) has collected too many awards to enumerate...

  Tire recycling plant to be built in Bila Tserkva The chairman of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Anatolii Prysiazhniuk announced that the largest Ukrainian producer of tires...

About a week ago the Ukrainian public was shocked by police brutality in Minsk when dispersing protest rallies and arresting opposition leaders. Anything like that in Ukraine seemed inconceivable....

When asked whom I would interview for the New Year/ Christmas issue of the news­paper, the name of Ivan Mal­ko­vych came to my mind almost at once. The director of the famous Ukrainian...

1724: The acting hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Polubotok dies in Petropavlovsk Fortress (St. Petersburg). Peter I imprisoned him for trying to obtain greater autonomy for Ukraine. 1927: Children’s labor...

Last weekend two symbolic events took place in the Russian capital: an anti-Nazi meeting on Pushkin Square and the closure of the Ukrainian Literature Library. On the face of it, it may seem that...

ZHYTOMYR – A young historian, journalist and writer, Sviatoslav Lypovetsky is well-known to The Day’s readers due to, in particular, his articles about the Ukrainian liberation struggle...

The process of appointing Serhii Arbuzov as head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) was as quick and straightforward as that of passing the budget. The whole procedure took no more than 20 minutes...

There is sand up to one’s knees in the streets, ancient wooden houses, cattlesheds and cellars that are still thatched. One can get there along a twisted, unchartered forest road. In Svalovychi time...

“We have interesting findings regarding the creation of a common textbook for history and social studies for teachers. We have rather different curricula and I understand that it is a very Manilov-...

With the Euro-2012 being little more than a year away, Ukraine has finally began to think about the country’s image, symbols, logos, and slogans. Na­turally, things like this are not done overnight...

Germany has been Ukraine’s reliable economic and political partner for decades. Ambassador Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth once said that Germany has broad shoulders for this kind of role. The official...