Kateryna Diadiun

The Ukrainian National Union of Journalists (UNUJ) enjoyed its highest prestige in the stable Soviet times, when admission to the union was considered at least as a milestone in one’s career. Although the union headquarters, 27 Khreshchatyk Street, still requests information be faxed rather than...

Kyiv’s Artist’s Home witnessed the closing ceremony of the fifth photo exhibition of The Day. Judging by visitors’ impressions (among them were politicians, experts, and, most importantly, colleagues), it is safe to assume that The Day’s photo exhibits have become a domestic photo journalistic...

Have you ever heard of an international festival of television and radio programs meant for ethnic minorities, known as “ Miy Ridny Krai” [My Native Land], held in Uzhhorod for the fifth consecutive year? No? Not to worry, it is a cultural event mostly followed by the public and media of...

Germans living in Ukraine enjoy the support of their ethnic homeland. The Goethe Institute German Cultural Center is funding program called the German Minority designed to assist Ukraine’s Germans and managed by Kaspar HOPPE, who has been living in Ukraine for the past six years. “We...

Oleksandr LUKYANENKO, special correspondent, information and analysis, Inter: I think that trying to convey all the information in such cases can be very damaging. Remember the first two days at Nord Ost [where the hostages were held]? Everybody could watch and hear everything happening on the...

Viktor SKOMOROKHA, Chairman of the Constitutional Court; “The photo exhibition is very interesting. An extremely unbiased look. For example, the photo ‘Options’ (showing Viktor Medvedchuk and Leonid Kravchuk — Ed.): the politicians seem to be sitting quietly in the corner, but the lens caught...

This is the twelfth time Gerhard BЗrtos, Austrian businessman, has visited Ukraine. In the generous Slavic way, the trip of the extravagant Austrian is aimed at overcoming our country’s negative image among the West European countries. A flood struck his hometown of Linz. A few meters more and...

Nver MKHITARIAN, people’s deputy and president of the Pozniakyzhytlobud building corporation: Under the Soviets, people were divided into those dissatisfied with the way they lived (they were closely watched by the KGB) and those that were content (the OBKhSS Division against Theft of Socialist...

The Violence, Horror, and Pornography: the Problem of Criteria of Their Influence on the Juvenile Psyche round table was held on May 29, in an atmosphere of scientific precision and public emotion. Initiated by the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences...

In Ukraine, chickens are traditionally counted in the spring, not in the fall. The awards season begins in March, when the past year’s impressions have been properly digested, and Ukraine comes up with its Person of the Year, a program to identify the cream of the nation. The feast began at the...