Maryna Zamyatina

Several years ago a Western businessman shared his impressions after visiting one of the post-Soviet republics: “Where I come from, a boss of a major company normally speaks two or three foreign languages and his secretary one at best. Here everything is the other way around: the boss does not...

Last Friday Professor of the Stockholm Business School and co- author of the Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism bestsellers Kjell Nordstrem delivered a lecture in Kyiv within the framework of the New Business Philosophy All-Ukrainian Business Forum. In his interview with The Day Professor...

The weekend before last Vienna hosted an international conference, Morality and Politics, organized by Project Syndicate together with Vienna Institute of Human Sciences. The list of speakers is really impressing: in addition to such outstanding political figures as President of the European...

“Ms. Biglou, before you came to Ukraine you used to work in the British Councils in Africa and Central Asia. Are there different approaches to the British Councils’ activities in different countries or there exists a single action plan for all of them?” “Obviously, we are driven by the global...

Chanoyu is worshipping beauty in the twilight of humdrum life Sen-no Rikyu There hardly is even one European who, among other standard associations connected with Japan (like samurai, kimono, or karate) will not recall tea ceremony. Far less people ever saw it firsthand. Even less have...

This week on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Japan, the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine opened a series of cultural events named Japanese Fall in Ukraine 2002. Last Tuesday its first event, master class for the pupils of the Small Academy...

This November the British Council in Ukraine will celebrate its tenth anniversary. In these years with the assistance of the Council many Ukrainians have got an opportunity to make a closer acquaintance with the culture and science of the United Kingdom, learn more on about its democratic values...

This English weekly digest has been in existence for four years. Is it a little or a lot? Probably quite a bit, meaning 176 issues, since February 28, 1998, when the first issue came off the presses and because it was the first attempt to make a satellite English periodical as a supplement to a...

Friday before last saw the presentation of the English language website of Ukraine’s State Tax Administration (www.sta.gov.ua/english). In his introductory speech State Tax Administration Director Mykola AZAROV stressed the importance of utilizing modern Internet technologies as “a real means of...

On January 21, 1971, the first (only in our city at that time) television channel again ran the film Lenin in 1918 on the occasion of a new anniversary of the Leader’s death. My mother and the whole family watched the film from beginning to end and then went to the maternity hospital. I came...