№80, (2014)

There seems to be a coming “slack” in the close relationship between Germany and Russia due to the situation in Ukraine or, to be more exact, Moscow’s unwillingness to carry out the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s early December visit to Turkey raised a lot of questions, chief among them being the following: will Turkey undermine the sanctions regime imposed on the...

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk presented to the parliament his Cabinet’s action plan for 2015 on December 11, 2014. During the presentation of his program, the prime minister...

The auction’s lots were embroidered shirts created by art designer Liudmyla Bushynska, working under the RUTA brand. These garments, belonging to the “Magic Embroidered Shirt”...

The project is providing military medics with training in operational and tactical combat casualty care according to NATO standards. The five-day training course aims to aid not only medics, but also...

The year 2014 is drawing to a close, having been dominated in this country and on The Day’s pages in particular by Taras Shevchenko’s genius, his life, work, and prophetic visions of our...

“Dear Andrii, Thank you for defending our homeland. I am a pupil of Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception. Every day all pupils are praying for you. Hopefully, you will come...

Ukraine’s trade representative Valerii Piatnytsky has been acting economy and trade development minister of Ukraine for almost two months. During this time, as he noted in a conversation with...

Three Ukrainian activists – Hanna Hopko, Serhii Leshchenko, and Oleksandr Solontai – have received this year’s Democracy Award from the US National Democratic Institute (NDI)....

The new Cabinet has had its action plan approved and a year’s immunity granted. While it is clearly a bit of good news, experts have quite a few negative expectations regarding the Cabinet...

In November the name of Klym Churiumov, Kyiv Planetarium director and Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University Professor, came into the spotlight of the world’s major TV channels and other media. While...

Two towns of Luhansk oblast, Svatove and Sievierodonetsk, I visited together with a group of artists who again came to the ATO zone to support the troops with songs, communication, and presents. The...

Curtain at 7 p.m. unless otherwise notedTheaterNational Opera of Ukraine(vul. Volodymyrska 50, tel. 279-1169)17 – Natalka Poltavka, opera by Lysenko18 – Romance soiree20 – Madama...

In the framework of a project dedicated to the famous Ukrainian opera diva, singers Jamala, Kasha “Baby” Saltsova, Yulia “The Hardkiss” Sanina, and Anastasia Prykhodko were...

Hans Martin Fleischer’s main job is as a PR-manager for the municipality of Berlin. This year, he will spend all his annual leave, amounting to six weeks, travelling around Ukraine. He brought...