Nadiya Tysiachna

Yurii Logush, a well-known international company’s chairman, called to the editorial office one day and asked to find our newspaper’s issue containing the continuation of the material written by Stanislav Kulchytsky and entitled “Why did Stalin annihilate us?” It occurred that he was collecting all...

On July 16 Kyiv Mohyla Academy hosted a celebration to mark the 60th birthday of the man who revived this distinguished institution, Viacheslav Briukhovetsky. Briukhovetsky’s name is directly associated with the revival of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, one of Eastern Europe’s oldest...

The Chornobyl disaster is an event whose true significance for our nation, and all of humanity, we are just beginning to comprehend. Twenty years is too short a time for society to realize, at least “in the first approximation,” how this disaster has changed our life. What is clear is that it has...

On May 6-7, Trukhaniv Ostriv in Kyiv will host the first All-Ukrainian festival “Rock Sich,” the brainchild of the popular rocker Oleh Skrypka. The concerts will take place simultaneously on three stages. One will feature standard rock groups playing hard and ethno rock, while the other two...

Anne Applebaum, a well-known public figure, political journalist, member of the editorial board of The Washington Post, and the wife of Poland’s Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, is in Ukraine for the second time. She first visited Ukraine in the early 1990s, when she was working on her first...

On April 27, the 20 th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, the National Opera of Ukraine will host the charity concert “Requiem” organized by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation (supervisory board chairperson: Kateryna Yushchenko) and the Diplomat Service Company. “Almost every...

Last week the National Mining University of Dnipropetrovsk hosted a presentation of the most recent additions to The Day’s Library Series: Day and Eternity of James Mace and Klara Gudzyk’s Apocrypha. It was the first such presentation of our books after their successful debut at this year’s...

Last year this festival, held on the initiative of Oleh Skrypka, the front man of the legendary pop group Vopli Vidopliasova, was not just an unforgettable event in the cultural and artistic life of Ukraine: it was, above all, the manifestation of spiritual liberation that triggered an orange...

On May 27 the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine hosted a ceremony in Kyiv to award the 2005 Dmytro Nytchenko Prize to this year’s winners, among them The Day’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna; Volodymyr Panchenko, vice-president of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and one of our regular contributors; Oleksandr...

On May 27 the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater will premiere Ivan Kotliarevsky’s Natalka Poltavka. Last year the company’s artistic director Bohdan Stupka suggested the idea to stage the show to stage director Oleksandr Anurov. “I was skeptical about it at first,” says Oleksandr Anurov...