№8, (2002)

Historical relics of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky period are expected to be delivered to Kyiv by charter flights from Sweden, Poland, and Russia in early March. The exposition will consist of the Hetman’s...

The electoral preferences recorded by public opinion polls in early February remained unchanged at the end of the month. For example, according to a nationwide representative poll conducted by the...

Oleksandr Nehoda, director general of the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU), believes that the latest Tsyklon-4 launch vehicle is the “top priority of the space industry,” for it will meet the...

I cannot say that I am an atheist due to ignorance, and that is why I have the same yardstick for believers and unbelievers along with their deeds. The share of good people in both groups is large,...

Viktoriya PODHORNA, political scientist: What we are witnessing at the decisive stage of the 2002 election campaign is a natural process, considering a very high level of political fragmentation...

Leonid Hrach, whom a court denied registration as candidate for the Crimean legislature, last Tuesday held a briefing for journalists. After circulating the text of his court appeal, he said, “Every...

“The crews of Ukrainian ships impounded in Mauritania refuse to go ashore unless paid their wages.” “ The M. V. Princess Sarah, with a crew of 18 including eight Ukrainians, was seized by a pirate...

Dzherela [Springs] is the name of a nonprofit organization uniting parents of physically handicapped children in Kyiv. It came out with the initiative of setting up experimental dormitories for the...

You are alien here And not yet native there... Lina Kostenko One of the most brilliant and significant personalities in the history of two countries, Ukraine and Russia, still remains in both...

A press conference held by the film crew of the controversial, Prayer for Hetman Mazepa submitted to the 52nd Berlin festival was marked by a crowded and somewhat tense atmosphere. The Kyiv media...

Formerly, the slogan, Olympiad only for the Olympic athletes, was to be understood just the other way round, which was quite logical and justifiable. For what we call Olympiad is the whole four-year...

The Serge Lifar International Ballet Festival ended the week before last at the National Opera of Ukraine with the National Opera of Bordeaux’s ballet troupe presenting works by two outstanding...

The week before last American historian James Mace celebrated his fiftieth jubilee in Kyiv. Last week The Day wrote about this extraordinary man, a citizen of a wealthy country for whom Ukraine has...

The Ukrainian sociopolitical and literary monthly magazine Suchasnist was a little late presenting its first issue this year. The January 2002 issue is almost entirely dedicated to Ukraine’s closest...

The Culture and Art Center of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy National University witnessed such a truly significant event as the encyclopedia, Kiev-Mohyla Academy in Names, Seventeen and Eighteenth...