Volodymyr Voitenko

I open a newspaper and immediately spot an ad about “Petro the channeler and his magic cat.” They cure every conceivable malady and have an inexhaustible supply of “meteors and plasmas.” I turn the page and find another ad extolling the “people’s protectress Mrs. Hanna.” She is shown wearing an...

In silence of the Day of DoomThe dead arise, for justice true Taras Shevchenko(Abstract from The Dream, translated by Constantine Andrusyshen and Watson Kirckonnell(c)) I learned about the Holodomor of 1933 from my parents, and I myself witnessed what happened in 1947. Today there are those among...

At the very end of last year, Den’ carried my feature “ New Year’s Eve Skiing” (not carried in this digest), in which I offered my telephone number, due to certain reasons. I have received many calls, even from Canada, and the last one came in mid-January from a Mr. Tychyna in Ichnya, Chernihiv...

The Day’s polls are undoubtedly one of the newspaper’s assets. In Soviet times, all of us, fed up with official humdrum, would dart a cursory glance at the front page or even begin reading a newspaper from the last page. Conversely, The Day’s front page sociological survey results, “just figures,”...

September 11 will mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the US. First of all, we must honor the memory of those killed in the airplanes, World Trade Center, and Pentagon. Yet, we must make at least the first attempt of a rational rather than emotional assessment of the tragedy....

Every morning, on my way to work, I see red slogans sprayed on two of the supports of the Footbridge: “Glory to Ukraine!” and “Glory to the Heroes!” About ten yards farther on someone wrote “You Are Lambs” in blue on a fence. Returning home, I read the blue one first. In other words, I take turns...

“I consider it an axiom that the number of those born and those dead undoubtedly correlates with the physical, political, and moral condition of a country’s residents.” Professor Heinrich von Storch, 1801 Working for many years in the field of demography, I have carried out a number of...

It is debatable whether the twentieth century really began in 1897 (when Sir Joseph John Thomson discovered the electron, ushering in the era of a new science and technology) or in 1914 (when Gavrilo Princip touched off World War I by shooting Archduke Ferdinand). But the twenty-first century began...

Many good actors star in the film embodying quite confidently and sometimes too convincingly the main heroic – in various senses – characters: militiamen, not-overburdened with moral principles female secretaries, Mafiosi, villains, vile killers, and love-sick deserters. It seems that for a...