Viktoria Skuba

Last Friday Kyiv’s Central House of the Artist saw the opening of the sixth Historical Painting Biennale, “Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present Day,” dedicated to the 200th birth anniversary of Taras Shevchenko.The Historical Painting Biennale has been held every two years since...

We met Belarusian journalist Ales Piletski in Minsk in 2011. In half a year after presidential elections, a rough dispersal of the protest rally of those who disagreed with the elections results, and a new wave of repressions in the country, an economic crisis started, followed by more rallies....

I met Viktoria Skliarova near the Universytet metro station next to the Freedom Square. She was a member of the initiative group for installing the memorial plaque to George (Yurii) Shevelov in Kharkiv and gladly agreed to show us the places associated with the scholar. The Day’s readers are...

On the eve of the celebrations, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s leader His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk emphasized that UGCC remains faithful to Kyiv tradition to celebrate the anniversary of baptism on August 14 – on the day of the so-called August Water Baptism. On Saturday one...

August 11 marked the beginning of the Synod of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Bishops. The head of the UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav announced its beginning during the Liturgy in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, which was attended by the bishops of the Church from around...

I can remember that, when I was still a child somewhere in the mid-1990s, my dad always rode a bicycle to his work and to my grandmother. Economy was the main reason why he “befriended” the bike. At the time, nobody guessed yet that it is was an environment-friendly transport. Only...

Two years ago, on August 4, 2011, Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna,” was arrested. On November 24 of the same year he was sentenced to a 4.5-year prison term on tax evasion charges. For the second year in a row, on an anniversary of Bialiatski’s arrest,...

The Shevchenko District Court of Kyiv found five members of na­tio­na­list organizations, accused of chipping away the nose and right hand of the statue of Lenin in Kyiv on June 30, 2009, guilty as charged. Mykola Kokha­niv­sky was sentenced to three years’ im­pri­...

Baturyn is one of the landmark places in Ukrainian history. Baturyn’s ruins are the ruins of a European Ukraine, as some researchers claim. It is after the defeat of Ivan Mazepa that the Cossack state lost its close cultural links with Europe and began a gradual departure into the influence...

The unpleasant incident with beating of journalists during the opposition rally held on May 18 is “gaining momentum.” What actually happened there? What results of the investigation do the police have? Interior Minister Vitalii ZAKHARCHENKO answered these questions on May 21 in the...