Yury Zelinsky

The beach was bustling with activity as four dozen sand sculpture lovers from five countries presented their technically elaborate but short-lived creations. After schmoozing with the architects (no exaggeration, as many of the competitors are student architects and accomplished artists), this...

Last Friday saw the launch of Atelier 1, a new Ukrainian designer boutique at Fashion Lab Gallery located in the Alta Center in Kyiv’s Petrivka shopping area. Atelier 1 is different from the nearby clothing stores of Viktor Anisimov, Oleksandr Hapchuk, and Diana Dorozhkina in that it is a multi-...

Revolutions are made by sincere people. Perhaps unlike their masterminds, those who carry out revolutions are ordinary and believing people. Today we look back on the Orange Revolution as something festive and sincere in our largely insincere country. Today we, much like the French two centuries...

Last weekend Ruslana presented her new single Dances with Wolves. Very much in the spirit of the song that the singer performed last year at the Eurovision contest, her latest video is pounding and uninhibited. The clip tells a general story intertwined with documentary footage of events on Kyiv’s...

In 1994 Stephen Spielberg made one of his most famous films, Schindler’s List, a requiem for the millions of Holocaust victims. Dedicated to those who miraculously survived, Spielberg’s film received a tremendous amount of feedback. The bottom line is not the seven Oscars but the fact that the...

The Guinness Book of Records includes the name of the outstanding Ukrainian gymnast Larysa Latynina, who won the most medals in Olympic history: a total of 18 medals, including 9 gold, which were won at three Olympic Games. A soiree promoted as “A Legend Named Larysa” was recently held in Kyiv to...

Andriy Shevchenko, a.k.a Sheva, is the best soccer player, not just for his fans in Ukraine or Italy but in all of Europe. On December 13 he officially received the Golden Ball (photo), which is awarded annually by the magazine France Football to the best soccer player in the Old World. In a survey...

The Day presents a selection of comments from the residents of the Tent City. The participants of the protest movement were asked the following questions, What made you join the protest? What is your vision of Ukraine ten years from now? Is the statement about a split in Ukraine true? Mariya...

There are matches won by teams and those that are won by coaches or individual players. There are very few other kinds of scenarios. Yet these “scenarios” occur with enviable regularity whenever Eastern and Western European clubs take each other on. A certain physician or high school teacher will...

The mysterious ranking lists that UEFA and the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) regularly publish for national teams and clubs, respectively, are often the objects of sarcastic comments. Despite the compilers’ assurances that the coefficient is calculated as...