Serhiy Vasyliev

In 1989, we were in bovine oblivion of future disasters, boozing, meeting and losing sweethearts living through petty betrayals, and depression. In 1989, our minds were astir with breath-taking utopian projects, and the battle-hardened Soviet nomenklatura veterans, sensing this, steered clear of...

An unprecedented event for our times occurred last Friday at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio: real cameramen and actors in costume for shooting appeared on studio sets that had been deserted like a prison after an evacuation. One can accept the above tirade as a taunt. Well, but in the...

The latest reports from the Council of Europe say that the next debate on the Ukrainian question has been postponed until the autumn session of its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). This gives Ukraine perhaps its last chance to fulfill at last its commitments taken five and a half years ago and to put...

Alexander Rahr, program director on Russia and the CIS of the German Society for Foreign Policy, believes the cassette scandal will become history as soon as Ukraine begins pragmatic cooperation with the West. According to the German political scientist, Ukraine’s movement toward the European...

The play Man or Woman? was performed at the closing ceremony by Kris Niklison of Holland. The performance was peculiarly instructive for our actors: despite being in demand by popular film directors (Peter Greenwell, in particular) Niklison, contrary to our actors, does not receive any permanent...

Eight years ago the students on October Revolution Square (now Independence Square) were able to do what three Verkhovna Rada factions failed to do three weeks ago: bring down the government. Eight years ago the students demanded changes: this October dozens of young people demanded stability...

By Serhiy Vasyliev, The Day An art show was organized, albeit over thirty years after this prominent Ukrainian artist, original man of letters, and theoretician of art wrote this message to his fellow countrymen. Davyd Burliuk died long ago in immigration, and the “Muscovites,” that is...