Ihor Siundiukov

On May 23-26, 2018, the College of Bernardins in Paris hosted a meeting of highly regarded humanities scholars, educational and public figures from Ukraine (historian Borys Gudziak, philosophers Heorhii Kovalenko and Kostiantyn Sihov, historian Oleh Turii, theologian Yevstratii Zoria), Russia...

The more one learns when researching a historic personality, the more sophisticated and nondogmatic that personality tends to emerge. Superficial knowledge, using good old [Soviet] “ideologically correct” reference sources presents a black and white mediocre image graded proceeding from...

An interesting thing is occurring to Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky’s political, state-formative, military, and literary (his Reminiscences) legacy: the more what he did becomes part of the “living” awareness of contemporary Ukrainians, rather than of “archival” history, the...

The destiny of a thinker, like that of an artist, often turns out to be unexpected or even chimerical. Forgotten, distorted, rejected, and cursed by contemporaries still in his lifetime, this person “suddenly” (in reality, not so suddenly) stages a comeback dozens of years later. His...

The rationalistic 18th century – the age of Enlightenment – with its linear understanding of social progress, and of society as a sophisticated mechanism (it was then such powerful doctrines as liberalism and Marxism were born to dominate the 19th and 20th centuries) is still...

March 18 became a rather significant and telling date, both in Ukrainian politics and in foreign affairs. On the one hand, Vladimir Putin’s “election” for another six-year presidential term reflects the obvious consolidation of his regime and the pitiful helplessness of the...

The best way to honor the exploit and tragedy of heroes is to “humanize” them, refresh in memory the circumstances of a heroic self-sacrifice and the faces of the killed people, and reconstruct the course of dramatic events. The 100th anniversary of the Battle of Kruty, in which...

Our newspaper has declared 2018 the Year of the Hetmanate. We have already published several materials dedicated to Pavlo Skoropadsky, one of the key figures of the 20th-century Ukrainian history. And it is only the beginning. Den/The Day intends to tackle this problem systemically and continuously...

Ninety nine years ago, on December 14, 1918, Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky was forced to give up power. He announced this in an address to the Ukrainian people and left Ukraine – for good, as it turned out later. He gave up power, not the hetmanate. As time went by, the hetman’s...

A good tradition of our newspaper, which started in 2009 and has been, by the way, supported by our readers as well, has been to celebrate important, significant events, facts, abrupt turning points of national history throughout a certain 12-month period. Thus, the cycles of Den’s years were...