Iryna Kononenko

These include Mykola Amosov, Stepan Bandera, Valerii Lobanovsky, Hryhorii Skovoroda, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Viacheslav Chornovil, Taras Shevchenko, and Yaroslav the Wise. Now we have to choose the greatest of them all — except it is unclear how one can choose between...

The current glamour boom in Ukraine means that many unappealing aspects of our life are literally off the radar. But photographer Oleksandr Chekmeniov, who is well known to the readers of The Day through his participation in our photography competitions, has always said that people who end up on...

On December 17 Kyiv’s chamber theater Suziria hosted the Volyn Soiree under the slogan “Vocal and Wine Glass.” Attending the event were our newspaper’s friends, partners and contributors, as well as representatives of the Volyn “diaspora” in Kyiv and guests from “mainland...

The Kyiv International Book Fair and Exhibition (“Book Contracts”) is being held within the framework of the Year of the Ukrainian Book. Thus, according to the Ukrainian State Committee for Television and Radio (Derzhkomteleradio), which organized this event, the fair is a kind of final evaluation...

The awards ceremony “Sociologist of the Year,” a unique event in Ukraine, was held on Dec. 11, 2007. This is the first award for young scholars established by a scholarly society rather than the state, and the first award that bears the name of a female scholar. Participants had to submit one...

It is no accident that this year’s Book World 2007 coincided with the celebrations of the Day of Literacy and the Ukrainian Language. The fair organizers — the Ukrainian Association of Publishers and Book Distributors, the Economic Association of Book Distributors, and the Ukrainian exhibition...

The Ukrainian fashion designer Lilia Pustovit has opened a trademark boutique named Atelier-1 in London’s Dover Street Market. The interior of this atelier was designed by the Ukrainian artist Pavlo Makov. A special area was assigned to every brand name in Dover Street Market’s five-storied...

The organizers of the 10th Ukrainian Fashion Week are already claiming that their annual fashion event was both a success and a real celebration. “Ukraine has formed a team of designers with a characteristic style. The only thing we don’t have, in comparison with the outside world, is that there is...

Although quite a few publishing companies - mostly private - have appeared in Ukraine over the past several years, the problem of low print runs for Ukrainian books remains unsolved. This is especially true of children’s books. At the beginning of this year the Zoloty leleka (Golden Stork)...

The first day of Ukrainian Fashion Week traditionally began with the launch of Lilia Pustovit’s 2008 spring/summer collection. This tradition has been upheld for the past decade, ever since the first Fashion Seasons. All these years, we have been marveling at Pustovit’s fantastic capacity for work...