Olena Berezhniuk

“Ukrainian Antarctica” is the name of the exhibit, recently opened at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kyiv. The project is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Antarctic research base Akademik Vernadsky. The exhibits include items from the base, brought by Ukrainian...

Distance is no obstacle to good deeds. “As President of the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women I am honored to head the ‘Guardian Angels Ukraine’ humanitarian project,” wrote Lesia Shymko, an iconic figure in Canadian Diaspora, in The Day’s New Year questionnaire. She...

“Israel is a country of start-ups,” said Dan Shechtman, a famous Israeli scientist and laureate of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, who is visiting Ukraine these days. According to Shechtman, if it is to efficiently function, science must be profitable....

De-Communization is continuing in the capital city. In particular, public debate on renaming the three objects whose names are associated with the communist regime has ended on September 7. Following the online vote held at the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA)’s website, Serafimovicha...

Petro Prymachenko and I met in the heat of his volunteer work. In early spring, The Day visited a training of Azov fighters at Kyiv’s ATEK factory. At the time, only courtyards were used as a training ground for recruits, but now ATEK has a big complex with simulators and an obstacle course....

The digging in Poshtova Square is bringing new findings to Kyiv archeologists. At the beginning of summer they found here the remains of wooden constructions of 11th-12th centuries, and several weeks ago – parts of defense constructions of the 17th century. According to the director of the...

On April 20 a car stopped outside a frontier check point near Strileche, a village in Kharkiv oblast, and two young ladies with backpacks alighted. To the utter surprise of the border guards, the girls were not traveling to Russia. Instead, the moment the car pulled out, they hit the road in its...

At first, the “E-health” system is implemented at the Kyiv Military Hospital. The system allows for electronic record keeping of the soldiers’ medical cards. According to Mykhailo Lopatin, the project leader, this system allows the doctors to get all the relevant information in...

The exhibition “Volodymyr the Great – the Founder of the Ukrainian State” at St. Sophia’s Cathedral has caused a sharp debate among art historians, as well as among ordinary Ukrainians. The organizers has presented ancient coins, fragments of the Church of the Tithes walls,...

A scheduled exercise for communication department heads of the State Border Service was held in Kyiv on August 6. Besides the theoretical lessons, the border guards got to see how the latest communication systems functioned. They have been recently inducted into service by our technicians. In...