№8, (2011)
10.02.2011 - 00:00
A visit to the stock exchange
During his two-day visit to Poland the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his Polish colleague Bronislaw Komorowski visited the Warsaw Stock Exchange on February 4. Afterwards the presidents...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Ukrainian armed forces under threat
On January 12, 2011, 103 out of the 417 registered members of the Ukrainian parliament voted for changes to the Law “On the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” The bill provided for two percent...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
The heart of an “iron poet”
Natalka and Yevhen were tied up with invisible spiritual threads. They left an indelible trace in the life of each other: he was tormented with her refusal and she with having caused him such an...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Literary freedom for Belarusians
The 17th Minsk International Book Fair will be held on February 9-13. The Ukrainian publishers and book sellers have been taking part in this international exhibition for eight years. They go there...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Virastiuk and Sylantiev read fairy tales to children
Two outstanding Ukrainian athletes, Denys Sylantiev and Vasyl Virastiuk, took part in the reading marathon “Tell a child a fairy tale” in Lviv. In the kindergarten No. 43 they read...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Yevhen Zherebetsky: Factors that felled the Soviet Union are still there…
In 2004, the journal Yi published Yevhen Zherebetsky’s article “The End of an Empire” in which he predicted the fall of the Russian Federation as the final stage in the collapse...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Oleksii RASTIAPIN: What we’re working on may yield results years from now
Centralized cultural life is one of the grim aspects of Ukraine’s Soviet heritage. Under the Soviets, the Ukrainian in the street had to travel to Kyiv to see something truly interesting,...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
National Energy Efficiency Agency has big plans for Ukraine
A two-day exhibit of works by the winners of the art competition “Children for Pure Energy,” organized on the initiative of Ukraine’s National Energy Efficiency Agency (NAER), ended at the Ukrainian...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
In memory of Kvitka Cisyk
Lviv – The Day learned about the project from its producer Alex Gutmacher. He is an American of Ukrainian origin, a native of Odesa and a professional musician. He didn’t know anything about Kvitka...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
The students have won
Last year beat all the records in terms of the numbers of protests that the students had to organize to fight for their rights. They started with a campaign against the appointment of Dmytro...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Fashion and civic society
It is very easy to impose something on a hard-hearted society with an inferiority complex and syndrome of lost values, be it political technology myths, aesthetic (or anti-aesthetic) tastes, or...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
“Our solidarity is our protection”
Lina Kostenko, a prominent modern Ukrainian writer, has paid much attention to Gongadze’s murder case in her recently presented novel Notes of a Ukrainian Madman. Keeping a chronicle of...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1900: Ukraine’s first political party, the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), is founded. 1940: The first 220,000 Western Ukrainians are deported [on Stalin’s orders]. 1940: The Organization of...
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EVENT
Tender for Kerch Strait bridge
The Russian Vnesheconombank has announced the tender for a market feasibility study for the Kerch Strait transport crossing construction project,...
10.02.2011 - 00:00
Steel and tenderness
Writing about sculpting is quite strange for me, even though I have done a bit of it myself. My home movie collection has been linked to sculpture for a long time. Suffice it to mention Ivan...