Diana Bazyliak

The initiators of the World of Traditions Festival from the Whole World international organization believe it only a small part of their road home. They believe that one should start his/her quest for the lost harmony from him/herself, namely, from the traditions, which have preserved the formula...

29,500 Ukrainians aged 18 to 25 are trying to evade the military draft, believes Anatoly Kobas, deputy chief of the organization and mobilization department at the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces. He told a Kyiv briefing dedicated to the spring call-up (April 1 — May 31) that this figure...

The Day recently received Mufti Tamim Akhmed Mohammed Moutah, head of the Clerical Administration of the Muslims of Ukraine. Mufti is Arabic for “one who explains,” i.e., an adept of the Shariah, one who resolves disputes, and makes decisions binding on all the faithful of a Muslim community....

The Kharkiv-based AKTA publishers’ presentation of The Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language , by Yury Sheveliov, attracted a large audience of academics. This was a major event — and not only for the narrow circle of scholars who deal with such a specific branch of philology as phonology...

Luminaries, prophets that gave their lives for the rebirth of national freedom and culture, are the calling card of any given country. Thus, English culture is symbolized by Sir William Shakespeare, German culture by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Russian culture by Aleksandr Pushkin, Polish culture...

The different people met while working on your project were, all attracted by one historical figure. What is so magnetic about Patriarch Yosyp Slipyi? Of course, Yury Shapoval and Danylo Yanevsky were interested in that figure, being historians. Oleksandr Frolov had made a documentary about...

“I STRONGLY DOUBT THAT A GALICIAN COULD BECOME PRESIDENT” “Mr. Vozniak, during a recent television bridge with Russia you, a figure better known for cultural and philosophical studies, introduced yourself as a political scientist. Why do philosophers re-qualify as political scientists?” “...

The mass media of ethnic minorities are rather specific. On the one hand, they are necessary simply because everyone is constitutionally entitled to receive information in one’s mother tongue. On the other hand, most such media are doomed to stay in the red. So far we have few self- supporting...

They say that Andriy Shevchenko posters were all over Milan last year and that his face became Ukraine’s calling card for the Italians. What faces symbolize Ukraine for the Ukrainians? An answer to this question will be attempted by a creative team led by noted journalist Natalia Vlashchenko and...

A MODERN INTELLECTUAL IS OFTEN A CONFORMIST The Day: There is a fable about people always gathering under the same Christmas tree decorated with gifts denoting certain human traits and benefits of this world – power, career, wealth. They take off all gifts except the packages labeled...