Oxana Pachliowska

That evening the Luigi Sturzo Institute was unusually quiet, with only one conference hall lit — and this in the merrily bustling center of Rome shortly before Christmas, with hospitably open shops and stores, sparkling garlands, and crowds of tourists milling about the Pantheon. The 15th-...

The dialogue between Oxana Pachliowska and an outstanding Italian Slavist of global renown, Sante Graciotti, in the previous issues of The Day marked the beginning of a series of interviews with famous Ukrainists from Europe. Graciotti has made a great contribution to freeing Eastern European...

Continued from previous issue The dialogue between Oxana Pachliowska and an outstanding Italian Slavist of global renown, Sante Graciotti, in the previous issues of The Day marked the beginning of a series of interviews with famous Ukrainists from Europe. Graciotti has made a great...

Ukraine was forced to sustain the burden of an autocratic regime, which greatly differed from its spirit and traditions, and at the same time received a paradoxical mission from history: to incorporate into the West its powerful neighbor and master. Continued from previous issue Many people...

The following interview with Sante Graciotti, an outstanding Slavist of world renown, is another installment in The Day’s interview series with Ukrainists from Europe and the rest of the world. Professor Graciotti is a philologist, a historian of Slavic literatures, a foreign member of Ukraine’s...

(Continued from the previous issue) BETWEEN TWO DESPOTS The main reason behind the rebellion in Ukraine and confrontation between the two peoples appears to be not so much the political, cultural, and economic pressures exerted on Ukraine, as the violent breaches of the Christian law of...

“Few perhaps know /That for him there is naught sacred… /That he scorns freedom, /That he knows no homeland,” wrote Pushkin about Mazepa in his poem Poltava. In 1691 a group of anonymous nuns wrote a lampoon describing Mazepa as a “vicious demon that tempts Christendom.” Peter I condemned him...

What we need is a scholarly substantiated and ethically valid reconstruction of dramatic events, conflicts, and losses sustained by Ukrainians and Russians.Is this really possible in today’s Russia where history is being once again [re-] written in the Kremlin? I love the European kind of Russia,...