№9, (2007)

Germans live by the principle “The consumer is king.” Ukraine has a long way to go to reach this standard. But things are slowly shifting. The State Committee of Ukraine on Technical Regulation and...

Such world-scale catastrophes as the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-33 will never be perceived by society as a theoretical academic issue, a problem of purely scholarly importance. The tragedy of the...

March 14 saw the launching of a high-profile Ukrainian Fashion Week. The event not only gathered a host of fashion buffs in front of the catwalk but also got the entire Ukraine riveted to...

Larysa Ivshyna, chief editor of Den/The Day, recently met the participants of the USAID-sponsored Parliamentary Internship Program, part of the Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine....

Everyone cares about image. NATO created the Public Diplomacy Division for this very purpose. This division is headed by Dr. Stefanie BABST, assistant to NATO’s General Secretary on questions of...

Before being appointed Ambassador of Great Britain to Ukraine in July 2006, Tim Barrow had made several visits to our country. He first traveled to Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union. Later...

March 20 1669: The Cossack Council of Officers resolves to recognize Right-Bank Ukraine as a Turkish protectorate. 1944: Soviet troops force the Germans to retreat from Vinnytsia. March 21 1927: The...

Hanne Severinsen, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee, which observes the process of honoring commitments undertaken before the Council...

On Feb. 27 and March 3, 2007, a roundtable on “The Reform of the Security Service of Ukraine: For Those in Power or for Society?” was held on the initiative of the sociopolitical association...

The Day has received a cry for help from Ukrainian residents of Moscow. The city authorities want to close Russia’s only Library of Ukrainian Literature by “reorganizing” it as a Library of the...

Ukrainian television failed to show the UEFA Cup second knockout round, 1st-leg match between Sevilla, the Spanish championship’s “fifth best,” and Ukraine’s champion Shakhtar Donetsk. The crowds of...

One left hook was enough for Volodymyr Klychko (Wladimir Klitschko) to beat his latest opponent. The next American hope - the two-meter-tall Ray Austin - lost as a result of a TKO by the second...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recently passed a law that will punish people who try to cash in on smuggling scrap metal, wood, mushrooms, berries, and other things from the Chornobyl zone. Offenders...

A future without repentance is a road that leads nowhere, even if it is falsely decorated by bright neon lights, considered the attributes of “well-being” and “prosperity.” Historical mistakes that...

This year the poet Ostap Lapski was awarded the Shevchenko Prize for his collections of poems In Search of Myself and On Both Sides of the Truth. He was not destined to receive it personally from...