№8, (2005)

Yuriy Kulinych, director of the Central Archival Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine, recently sent a letter to the editorial offices of The Day, requesting free copies of the books Ukraine...

The Ministry of Economy is busy coping with bankruptcy cases, says Economy and European Integration Minister Serhiy Teriokhyn, adding that “bankruptcy is currently the number-one privatization method...

Dmytro Chyzhevsky was a philosopher, historian, and Slavist of encyclopedic knowledge; a brilliant and extraordinary researcher, who was endowed with astonishing talents and was entirely devoted to...

Last Wednesday, The Day’s Editor-in-Chief Larysa Ivshyna gave a master class during the Informational Ukraine exhibition held in Kyiv as part of the Seventh European Ministerial Conference on Mass...

President Viktor Yushchenko’s working visit to Germany was one of a series of European visits that he began immediately after his inauguration. This visit was different in some respects, however. On...

James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, has announced his intention to leave, and the search is on for a new head of the world’s most important multilateral organization promoting...

“L’Ukraine a toujours aspire a etre libre” [Ukraine has always aspired to liberty] declared Voltaire (1694-1778). While he had a high regard for Tsar Peter I’s reforms, the French philosopher knew...

On March 9 the National Opera of Ukraine hosted a soirОe marking the 191st anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth. The Taras Shevchenko Prize has been awarded on these...

The Ukrainian government intends to significantly increase social spending this year, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said last week. She pointed out that 83% of Ukrainian pensioners presently “...

Without delving into academic definitions, identity means the degree to which a given object reflects its true nature. In regard to people, identity means being true to one’s character, ethnic...

HER UNIVERSITIES Although this article concerns a classic of Ukrainian literature, we should start with some biographical facts. Olha-Maria Kobylianska was born on November 27, 1863, in Gurahumora, a...

Last weekend Kyivans and guests of the capital were made welcome in city parks and other places where the Masliana (Butter or Pancake Week before Lent) was celebrated, marking the departure of winter...

On March 10 Kyiv’s Operetta Theater hosted an awards ceremony for the winners of the 4th national rating campaign “Book of the Year 2004” organized by the Elite- Profi center of rating studies, the...

The murky controversy surrounding the Kyiv Dynamo soccer club is common knowledge among Ukrainians, who simply see it as an attempt by the new government to take Dynamo away from Surkis. No one is...

The National Academy of Sciences is now in a state of nervous tension. Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, hit upon the following idea in a recent press interview: “The...