№9, (2007)

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...

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...

“... Lviv is situated in a place that is like an arbor in the middle of paradise. The surroundings are very beautiful. If you just step over the threshold, you immediately see so many wonderful...

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....

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...

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...

Shrewd observers are constantly noting the emergence of new phenomena in Ukraine’s multihued political life, and it is beginning to seem as though all possible methods of parliamentary struggle in...

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...

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...

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...

We all remember the words from a heroic narrative poem (bylina), “Near the glorious city of Kyiv... there was an outpost of heroic warriors.” This outpost may well have been Bilhorod, the famous city...

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...

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...

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...

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...