Olha Makar

Lauren Keiser – American com­poser, Vice President of the Inter­national Confederation of Music Publishers, recently delivered a lecture in Kyiv on copyright and pirate web­sites. Ac­cor­ding to Keiser, the United States became grand because of the copyright, and he also...

Just like during the Euro-2012 everyone became a soccer fan for a month, this time everyone turned into a rock fan during the “Rock’N’Sich” Festival. The festival’s audience was amazingly diverse: the action on Trukhaniv Island brought together both families with...

Rhythm of dozens of ethnic drums is changing but doesn’t stop for a moment, like heartbeat, a symbol of life that never ceases to beat. Six hours hundreds of people, online connection with other “drum cities” – Tokyo, Rome, Vancouver, Nairobi, Los Angeles – this is how...

May 13 marked two months of the time when the white smoke over the Vatican announced that a new Pope had been chosen. Over this time interest to figure of Pope Francis has been increasing – what causes such enthusiasm? What can we expect of the new Pope? How his relations with other religions...

At 9 a.m. there were more bikes than random passerby on the Poshtova Square at the subway entrance on the side of the funicular. Young guys and girls not only on bikes, but also with strollers or on crutches went down the stairs into the undercrossing and then climbed up on the other side, testing...

Professor Alkis Raftis, President of International Dance Council (CID) at UNESCO first came to Ukraine on an unofficial visit to meet with members of the CID and understand the situation with dancing in Ukraine. International Dance Council is the highest official organization that brings together...

The Day often writes about birds and their relations with humans. Our publications tell how people rescue swans that stayed to winter in Ukraine, or cranes that have come from warm Africa right in the middle of March snowfall. We write about the birds living nearby, in parks, yards, and forests,...

Recently, the media reported truly sensational news, at least for Ukraine – a wheelchair-bound lawyer Dmytro Zhary won his court case against a pharmacy chain, the first disability discrimination case to be won in Ukraine, and this is really encouraging. Zhary’s story is hardly unique,...

A three-year-old girl is playing with a hammer outdoors, barely holding it in her little hand. It is mid-November, but she is wearing a light summer dress – here, at the Gypsy camp in a Kyiv dormitory suburb, children have neither toys nor clothes. The younger kids play with all kinds of...

It is sunny and windy today – Mozambique’s winters are full of cold evenings and still colder dawns. We are to visit two unusual places in one day – DREAM, an AIDS treatment center, and a high-security prison. The first DREAM center was established ten years ago by the...