№8, (2003)

The National Opera premiered War and Peace weekend before last. It was without doubt a very challenging task. Few opera houses, among them leading companies across the world, boast this production on...

A DEMAND FOR QUALITY IS AN ACTIVE PROCESS Many complain that there are no discussion forums or an organized communicative environment in Ukraine. But how difficult is it for those who complain to...

Ukraine has moved past what can be described as an experimental model of a new pan-European polity to the manufacturing process, roughly speaking. In other words, any concessions — e.g., tactical...

“I WAS WITNESS TO HISTORY IN KYIV” Ms. Mridula, would you tell our readers about yourself? I was born in Calcutta, it’s the capital of West Bengal State in eastern India. My father was a...

Globalization has assumed a new form: global mass politics. Of course, political protests have been global for decades, as past marches against the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, and globalization...

There is apparently no ready solution to the problem of building a deep-water navigation canal, a bone of contention among the National Academy of Science (NAS), the management of the Danube...

Saint Andrew’s Church. You cannot think of it as just another structure. It stepped into my life suddenly, emerging before my surprised eyes as a shining unearthly image against the dark sky with...

The Day’s editors have received a letter from a Kyiv chemical engineer Artur Yeremenko, in which he makes a pessimistic conclusion about “the Bykivnia affair.” As Den/The Day has more than once...

The sun beamed on the green tablecloth, playing with the silverware; the window looked like a picture embellishing the room with old Kyiv cityscape clad in refined winter attire. The caf О was half-...

Religious subjects are popular with modern artists. This popularity (much as I hate the word in this con text) is an extremely sophisticated phenomenon in terms of its causes and consequences. A lot...

The Bukva [Letter] Bookstore hosted an event February 26 long awaited by the Kyiv public; Oksana Zabuzhko presented her new book titled Sister, Sister The new collection of prose by the noted...

Den’/The Day staged its first photo contest in 1999 and it has since turned it into a nationwide event. The contest allows amateur and professional pho tographers from different regions to make a...

VOLODYMYR KOZHAN, DIRECTOR OF THE LVIV-BASED ZEMLIAKY (“FELLOW COUNTRYMEN”) CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IS RECEIVING THE AWARD FROM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN LEONID KRAVCHUK. “THANKS TO SUCH...

On February 25, the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine hosted the Ukrainian and Russian Romances in Ivan Kozlovsky’s Creative Legacy charitable concert. Legend has it that Mykola Lysenko...

The four presidents’ Moscow statement on preparations for creating a single economic space in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus makes one admit that, at least, the president of Ukraine has...