Yulia Katsun

The press service of Vice-Premier for Humanitarian and Social Matters Vyacheslav Kyrylenko quotes him as saying that the Interdepartmental Commission for Promoting National Book Printing and Sales, created by a decision of the Ukrainian government, has approved draft standard-setting instruments to...

Kyiv’s first children’s charity fair opened on May 31 at Ukraine House. Organized by the Publishers’ Forum, the fair is not sponsored either by the state or the private sector. According to the forum’s president Oleksandr Koval, the fair is aimed at helping children get books to keep them reading...

June 5 marks the Journalists’ Day in Ukraine, as per presidential edict signed in May 1994 and timed to coincide with the date of the Ukrainian Journalists’ Union’s accession to the International Federation of Journalists in 1992. Every year this date causes a deeper professional self-analysis and...

Last week an intercollegiate student conference entitled “Prominent State-Building Figures” was held at Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs. Symon Petliura, Ivan Mazepa, Danylo Halytsky, and Borys Hrinchenko were just some of the names on a list of renowned Ukrainian personalities whose...

The Dim Mykoly Gallery at Kyiv’s Palace of Children and Youth has just opened “Deutsche Vita,” a collection of works (from 1947 to the present) by the German photographer Stefan Moses. The 55 photographs focus on German society’s most important historic decades and may be regarded as a review of...

The aim of the organizers of the first CIS forum of the creative and scholarly intelligentsia, held in Moscow on April 14-15, was to unite the CIS public in the struggle against violence, ethnic and religious intolerance, and to preserve “a single humanitarian space.” Among the items on the agenda...

Last week a group of students from the Faculty of Journalism at Zaporizhia National University, which is known for its progressive initiatives, visited the exclusion zone, the area surrounding the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station from where residents were evacuated in 1986. The students also visited...

Channel 5 was the only television channel in Ukraine that broadcast free parliamentary candidates’ debates every Saturday and Sunday, starting on March 5. Ten political forces with the highest ratings were invited to participate in the “Televised Debates: Parliamentary Elections 2006.” The channel...

Kyiv’s Kolo Art Gallery offers the public an opportunity to get acquainted with some unusual Ukrainian artists. Once a month residents of Kyiv will be able to explore works by a certain artist at the trade and entertainment center Arena City. The project was launched with an exhibit by the Kyiv...

Are there any grounds for ‘Europessimism?” This was the main question of a roundtable held at The Day ’s editorial office with the participation of Borys TARASIUK, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Ian BOAG, head of the European Commission Delegation to Ukraine; Oleksandr CHALY,...