A day of Den has been held for the fifth time at the Volyn Lesia Ukrainka National University. However, its cultural and intellectual impresa exceeded the limits of one educational establishment only: this time, to much pleasure, one could see among the large audience not only students, teachers, but the cultural elite, state officials, local photographers, museum employees, and simply old acquaintances of the newspaper from various corners of Volhynia. For Larysa Ivshyna, Den’s editor in chief, is considered Volhynia’s ambassador to Ukraine and the world (she is Volhynia-born). As the editor’s interesting conversation with the audience proved, people simply lack intellectual communication.
Interestingly, before the event the Lesia Ukrainka University hosted a public lecture of Finland’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-potentiary to Ukraine Christer Michelsson. He presented a book on Finland’s history. He made some changes in his tight schedule in order to visit The Day’s actions in Lutsk. Everyone present wondered what a foreign diplomat would do at a conversation led in Ukrainian. But the ambassador made a pleasant surprise, addressing the audience in Ukrainian. According to him, that it was his first business visit to the region where he spoke Ukrainian (the ambassador has a command of eight languages overall). According to Michelsson, Den is a very important publication for diplomats, as it is a reliable source of information, paying close attention to history, which is in ambassador’s opinion very significant for any nation.
Deputy Head of the Volyn Oblast State Administration Oleksandr Kuryliuk called The Day’s Lutsk action a significant event, and the works presented at the photo exhibit – Ukraine’s modern history, a real viewpoint that not only helps us assess ourselves and each other, but also makes one grow pensive and peep into one’s own soul. The room where the meeting with Ivshyna took place was filled to capacity. The conversation prompted many of its participants to think deeply. And one of the traditionally numerous questions was “How to make the Ukrainians think?”
