№8, (2005)

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...

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 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...

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...

The new Ukrainian government is making a generous gesture by extending a hand to business. What is in this hand and is there something “up the government’s sleeve?” This was the theme of a forum...

March 15. 1668. Demyan of Many Sins was elected hetman of the Left Bank Ukraine. 1939. The Soym (parliament) of Carpathian Ukraine proclaimed an independent republic with a presidential form of...

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 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 “...

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...

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...

Forbes magazine has tracked billionaires in Ukraine for the first time. In the just-published list of the world’s billionaires, Ukraine is represented by three people. According to this authoritative...

Dmytro KLOCHKO is a photographer, who specializes in portraits of Ukrainians and Ukraine. In search of the sites that he captures on film, he travels the country from east to west and north to south...

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...

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...

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...