Leonid Ivanenko

Dear Ms. Ivshyna,I have long wanted to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the House of Scholars and its administration. Daryna Halatchenko’s publication in The Day (Issue No. 32, Oct. 21, 2008) about the Salon of Aristocratic Ukrainian Speech has become widely known. The Shevchenko Scientific...

One can occasionally hear the term, rozsrilianne vidrozhennia, literally, the renaissance that was placed before the firing squad and shot. This was our own, Ukrainian, renaissance. What is in question is perhaps the part of the twentieth century before the Ukrainian People’s Republic was...

I have been keeping in contact with representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora for the past 15 years. The initial feeling of detachment has long since disappeared. We correspond and meet every now and then as old friends. But the issues we discuss, sometimes polemical in content, result from the old...

There is a kind of lull atop our political Olympus, most likely due to the New Year [and Christmas festivities]. Yet our beloved Socialist comrades decided to remind us of their precious existence. A couple of days ago I opened my mailbox and found a printed sheet, a special issue of their Tovarysh...