Oxana Pachlovska

What has society seen and remembered over the past days, weeks and months? Ruins, vandalism, brutality, provocations, invectives, and filth. The Red flag has returned to Ukraine and there have been a fight of thugs in the heart of Galicia. There have been social polemics — whether Russian...

I don’t know what happened. All I know is that explanations go from atmospheric mist to ideological mist, from engineering malfunctions to xenophobic pathology. This is what happens when historical memory is regarded as an attempt to get even. Putting an end to this squaring of accounts appears...

This year Taras Shevchenko Prize laureates were ceremoniously awarded on March 9. Among them was The Day’s contributor Oxana Pachlovska. She was unable to attend the awarding ceremony because the new semester had started at the university in Rome where she is a lecturer. She asked Maria Matios, a...

There are two Europes. One is the historical Europe of ideas, principles, protection of the personality and entire nations, and the years-long struggle for implementing these ideals. The other one is a bureaucratic entity that ensures a more or less unperturbed existence of a newest united Europe,...