№9, (2003)

The latest decisions of the European Union executive institutions and their leaders’ statements on the possible model for relations with Ukraine as a neighbor and shelving for indeterminate future...

During the March holidays our beloved pop singer worked with tripled effort. On the eve of the holiday, renowned Israeli composer Tzvika Pik, author of the “Viva,” which won the Eurovision to...

“All the music is inside his head shaped like Michelangelo’s dome. All that beautiful music nestles there like the Infant in the lap of Raphael’s Madonna,” Heinrich Neihauz, another prominent pianist...

By sheer coincidence, the two most important dates that outline the earthly life of our national Bard stand in fact next to each other. Taras Shevchenko was born February 25 (March 9 under the...

The Soviart Gallery, a major venue of the capital’s art exhibits on Andriyivsky uzviz, features a project by Volodymyr Budnykov, a noted representative of contemporary nonfigurative art. The...

(Continuation. See The Day of January 28 and February 11, 2003) III. THE “HOT” FEBRUARY OF 1654 The main lesson that Bohdan Khmelnytsky must have drawn from the...

I met orchestra conductor Roman Kofman the day before his departure to Germany as this season’s chief conductor of the Bonn Opera’s Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Shortly afterward he would conduct...

Those coming to the Lysenko Hall of Columns to the concert dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Bureau of the Commercial Counselor of the Austrian Embassy, have got a surprise; in fact, more...

Kyiv artist Marko Heiko can hardly be described as a public person. He keeps some distance between himself and the motley and noisy artistic community. Meanwhile he ranks among the capital’s best. In...

Germans living in Ukraine enjoy the support of their ethnic homeland. The Goethe Institute German Cultural Center is funding program called the German Minority designed to assist Ukraine’s Germans...

Two consecutive US nightclub tragedies have forced local residents to revise their attitude toward this kind of leisure. American sociologists claim on the basis of public opinion polls that clubbing...

The Day recently received Mufti Tamim Akhmed Mohammed Moutah, head of the Clerical Administration of the Muslims of Ukraine. Mufti is Arabic for “one who explains,” i.e., an adept of the Shariah, one...

I am convinced that there can be no justified objections to the economic relevance of the statement signed by the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, concerning further efforts...

Those working at opposition camps and media outlets must have found it hard to cover the March 9 rally, for there was not much to report. Everything seen and heard echoed the previous rallies. In the...

Some may consider political pundit Dmytro Vydrin’s judgments too abrupt and viewpoints too ironic. However, The Day’s interview partner is also quite self-critical, and he has for many years watched...