Please accept my sincere congratulations on the Den’s anniversary.
Six years since the first issue came off the presses seem too short a period, yet it is more than half the period of independence of this country. Having firmly asserted itself as one of Ukraine’s prestigious periodicals, Den’ is not only a chronicler of its latter-day history, but also one of its co-authors. Your newspaper is actively helping the reader to know exactly what is happening, understand the meaning of events and realities at this transitory social stage, revealing the prospects of national development. Your in-depth analysis of problems, open journalistic approach, patriotic stand, and intellectual rendition could not but win the readership’s appreciation — and the core of your readers consists of the Ukrainian political and cultural elite. I wish the staff the highest creative inspiration and further increase in the readership (including English-speaking audiences). May every next issue bring your journalists and readers the joy of new discoveries, meetings, impressions, the way we expect it from every new day.
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Dear Friends:
On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and personally, I congratulate the Den’ on the sixth anniversary.
Regrettably, I cannot be with you to celebrate, because my duty took me to faraway New York where the UN General Assembly session is in progress. However, Den’ reaches me over thousands of miles. From the outset your periodical has been not only unanimously recognized by the Ukrainian diplomatic community, but has also become our reliable daily assistant, helping us keep a sensitive finger on the pulse of our country, be aware of the stand taken by Ukrainian journalists, understand and appreciate public needs. Den’ enjoys a special kind of popularity, won not by hunting for hot stories and incriminating facts, but by daily painstaking work, carefully analyzing events, working out unbiased assessments, offering motivated forecasts. Using this pleasant opportunity, I wish you to uphold Den’s good name, the best of creative success, further interesting publications, and the Ukrainian and foreign reader’s unwavering appreciation.
I start every day by reading your newspaper, believing that it will be eventful and useful — just like The Day.
With warmest regards,
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Den’ is the people’s newspaper, because it defends their interests. It is still young, just six years old, but very much alive and kicking. It provides information no worse than any “adult” one. I think that your staff is a solid and hard-working family. Your newspaper carries information other periodicals think best to avoid; you publish interesting interviews and opinions from abroad. Den’ practices an unbiased approach to philosophic, religious, cultural, political, economic, and other problems, among them patriotic issues. Without patriotism, as without love of one’s mother, there is no man, no nation, no polity. And so your newspaper protects the sacred values of the Ukrainian people: St. Sophia’s Cathedral, Khortytsia Island, and Taras Shevchenko. Yours is a litmus test of patriotism.
The way one treats the Hagia Sophia of Kyiv and all Ukrainian architectural heritage, Khortytsia Island, and all gains of the democratic Ukrainian Cossacks, Taras Shevchenko and his language, all the other prominent Ukrainian cultural figures is the way one treats Ukraine and its people. In contrast, all the ill-wishers want to destroy these sacred values of the Ukrainian people, concealing with a fig leaf their nakedness, emptiness, and nothingness. Without people taking part — and this newspaper is created by journalists, experts in the field — there would be no democratic creation. The fact that offer room on your pages to nondemocratic, un-Ukrainian individuals is evidence that the truth and justice are on your side, that your newspaper has the strength of mind in conveying to the reader the patriotic idea — and patriotism is the national idea!
What gives your newspaper zest is all those letters, articles, readers arguing their points, various kinds of “forums” and topics. I wish all those creating Den’ to keep up the good job.
Happy birthday!
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We wish you every success, lasting inspiration, fresh invigorating ideas, and an ever increasing readership.
Respectfully,
The staff of the Kyiv insurance company.
