Oleksandr Kosarev

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University has a museum devoted entirely to Ukrainian embroidered towels known as rushnyks. We were invited to explore this one-of-a-kind museum when we were presenting The Day’s books at the university. The museum is located in a former spacious classroom,...

“I try to follow articles in The Day’s columns ‘History and I’ and ‘Ucraina Incognita’ because as a professional historian (I have been teaching and researching history in the higher school for 20 years) I use them in my own work. I really appreciate the newspaper’s book- publishing project and...

The cold weather is forcing people to take care of themselves, as well as animals, especially exotic ones. While you can dress a dog in overalls and a hat, it is far more difficult to deal with an elephant in a circus or a zoo. Strange reports are coming from frost-bound neighboring Russia: the zoo...

In 1995, when the organizers of the foundation (music specialist and current president Yuri Zilberman and the late composer Ivan Karabyts) had just begun their work, they dreamed of discovering talented young pianists and helping their careers. But they never expected that they would be able to do...

Over time the uncomfortable truth is becoming increasingly clear: all those declarations about the “European vector,” however sincere, are one thing, but the hard work to meet the deadlines for Ukraine’s integration into the European political, defense, economic, and intellectual space are an...

rary of the events that he was recounting. When he related the story of some ancient sable or musket, describing the life of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, their campaigns, and Sich customs, it seemed as though this man was wearing a modern three-piece suit by accident, rather than a Cossack tunic and...

“Epicenter of the Drive” is the name of a festival that took place last weekend. Billed as a “Motorock Party,” the name was fully justified, as any on entering the Epicenter Hypermarket was made instantly aware of free thinking and iron horses. The festival was attended by bikers from Ukraine and...