Serhiy Makhun

Ukraine’s junior soccer team was delightful to watch. The team captained by Hennady Zubov dominated their opponents throughout the game. Eight goals, scored by seven players, show that our junior team, with Viktor Kolotov, Volodymyr Troshkin, and Viktor Dohadailo, is a dangerous force. At the...

Academician Ivan Kuras does needs no introduction to The Day ’s readers. The point is not only in the offices, regalia. and awards he holds (he is vice president of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, director of the Academic Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, and a member...

Last Saturday the Fifth International Book World 2003 Fair finished its work in Kyiv. Its participants were almost 250 publishers, printing shops, and media outlets, The Day included. Certainly, the publishers are always willing to find out how competitive is their product; this is what ratings...

The Day offers the conclusion of Kamyanets-Podilsky University Prof. Valery Stepankov’s public lecture delivered at the Ostroh Academy National University. His lecture attracted considerable interest, on the part of students and teachers at the academy, as well as experts in the field, among them...

On October 16-18, Vicenza (Italy) hosted Western Europe’s first scholarly forum on the issues of the Ukrainian Holodomor Manmade Famine of 1932-33. The symposium, dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the Ukrainian Holodomor/Genocide (this is its official name), was held under the auspices of...

Socrates said that a scientist failing to bestow knowledge on fellow humans is like a lamp covered with a pot, meaning no light, so what is the use of it? He said this, addressing his pupils more than two thousand years ago, but his statement appears to best address the current realities in...

It is difficult to overestimate the role of Ostroh and the glorious dynasty of princes Ostrozky in the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in general. The city located in the very hub of Greater Volhynia (now Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr oblasts, northern Khmelnytsky oblast, Berestechko and...

Preserving cultural and historical heritage is vital for every nation willing to preserve its identity. However, many questions remain unanswered after the Day of the Government parliamentary hearings on the situation in the sphere of culture held in Verkhovna Rada in early November. Deputies spoke...

During the presentation of the two-volume collection of The Day’s Library Series (Ukraine Incognita and Dvi Rusi under the editorship of Larysa Ivshyna) in Kamyanets-Podilsky, we met with Prof. Valery Stepankov, Ph.D. in history. A noted researcher, winner of the 2001 State Prize, he shared with us...

The joint action of this newspaper, Kamyanets-Podilsky University, and the Ostroh Academy National University, held last Thursday at Ostroh, was as successful as Den’/The Day’s first visit to Ukraine’s oldest higher educational institution. It will be recalled that on the first occasion we...