Lesia Shapoval

Lesia Karpa, the director of children’s language camp “Renaissance/Dreamschool” had only seven years ago a good job at a prestigious company in Wall Street (US). Her career path was quite complicated. Lesia, a girl from an ordinary Kyiv family with medium incomes, managed to...

A few weeks ago the NGO Environment People Law (EPL) appealed with an open statement that governments of Ukraine and the US had been withholding information regarding shale gas development plans in Ukraine and possible damage to environment that would result from such an undeliberate exploitation...

UNENGO “MAMA-86” is the only public organization that represents Ukraine at the Global Summit Rio+20. The Day asked Zoriana Mishchuk, information manager of the UNENGO “MAMA-86” to comment on this event. In fact, Mishchuk will be the person to help the Ukrainian mass media...

On the eve of Russian elections, the RF Election Committee publicized the so-called list of authorized delegates of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. The list includes even the names of famous musicians, such as viola player Yurii Bashmet, world-renowned conductor Valerii Gergiyev, and...

The planet’s resources are being tapped as never before, a problem only sporadically addressed by energy-saving governmental programs, and even then only in a nominal manner. We treat nature in a consumerist manner, engendering cataclysms and catastrophes. Only then do we finally begin to think...

Recently the concert hall of the Composers’ Union of Ukraine hosted a music soiree starring the noted contemporary composer Leonid Hrabovsky, pupil of the famous composers Levko Revutsky and Borys Liatoshynsky. He follows in the footsteps of Leos Janacek, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and...

The Kyiv Meridian Sports Complex hosted a contest in ballroom dancing for the mayor’s cup, Parade of Hopes-2003, with dancers from Ukraine and abroad taking part. A Kyiv couple performing in the adult category, Dmytro Vlokh and Olha Urumova, struck gold on the first day of the contest....

Such is the name of a contest whose results have been summarized at the Palace of the Arts of Children and Youth in Kyiv’s Pechersk district, where the project bearing the same name was presented to the public and the winners of the nationwide contest of children’s drawings collected their prizes....

Thanks to the technique of applying biohumus when planting saplings the ecologists intend to restore 50.9 hectares of Stankevych pine forest in the Crimea which burned last year during a 10-day fire, with 12.5 hectares destroyed by ground fire and 31.4 hectares by crowning fire. Total losses then...

Among the displayed plants camellias and azaleas draw most of attention. Head of the Center of Ecological Culture Volodymyr KVASHA told The Day’s correspondent about these exotic flowers: “The name camellia was first used by Carolus Linnaeus in 1735 to commemorate George Joseph Camel....