Liudmyla Mazurenko

Until recently, five-year-old twins Mykola and Oleh lived in a run-down rooming house and were often beaten by their parents. The kids became incapacitated and spent a lot of time in hospitals. Their mother is an unemployed alcoholic, and the only relative who cared about the children was their 60-...

Art shows have become a tradition at Ukraine’s State Department for Enforcement of Prison Sentences (DDUVP). It looks as though this state agency has decided to emulate the example portrayed in the film Respublika SHKID, where a drop wears away a stone. Today these young prisoners are painting, and...

According to old Orthodox beliefs, on the day of Epiphany, the feast of the baptism of Jesus, all bodies of water acquire miracle-working qualities; those who have the guts to immerse themselves completely in an ice hole will have all their ills healed. In olden times the vechornytsi gatherings...

The Day has already published articles on the 85th anniversary of the Museum of Russian Art in our capital and the fact that there are only two other museums in the world like the Kyiv one-the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Museum of Russian Art in St. Petersburg. The Kyiv museum has works by...

Ten years ago bioethics, a new branch of science that embraces biology, medicine, hygiene, ethics, and philosophy, was confirmed on a national level thanks to the initiative of the presidium of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences (NAN) and its president, Academician Borys Paton. The Bioethics...