№11, (2009)
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Imperial gas ambitions
These days we are mostly debating the ways to modernize Ukraine’s gas transportation system (GTS) and the need for Russia’s participation in this process. The opinions are polarized, as is often the...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Numismatic version of Gogol
On the eve of Mykola Hohol’s 200th birth anniversary the national Bank of Ukraine introduced a five-hryvnia coin into circulation. The portrait of the writer is well known and recognizable, while the...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Is all of this really so?
A bicameral parliament is an object of bitter criticism on the part of MPs, political scientists, and journalists: they are saying it is a legislative brainchild of Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Reaffirming Europe
ROME/STOCKHOLM — The ongoing global economic crisis is shaking beliefs and approaches that have long been enshrined in European policies. Indeed, the crisis is calling into question the very...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
April Fool’s Contest in Odesa: dedicated to Gogol, crisis, and struggle against organized crime
ODESA — the 36th April Fool’s contest known here as Humoryna started on Prymorsky Blvd., with a display of cartoons entitled “Friendship Starts with a Smile.” It was followed by a karaoke competition...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Kyiv Pectoral: problems of growth
The 2008 Kyiv Pectoral award ceremony traditionally took place on March 27, the World Theater Day. The ceremony is over, but they are still questions. The results show that the members of...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Fair sum of $20,000 for every have-not
Toward the end of 2006, the OUN-WIDER published statistics according to which more than half residents of this planet were living in misery; their incomes did not exceed $2,200 and they shared one...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Poltava opens alley lined up with Gogol’s characters
The characters from Nikolai Gogol’s (Mykola Hohol’s) works have been placed in Poltava’s Gogol Public Garden: Solokha, the Nose, Taras Bulba, the Young Lady, and Vakula. Alongside them are four bags...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Against Gogol
What do I have to write about him? In the tidal wave of texts (written, filmed, pictured, or painted) that is coming at us through every informational channel, it is difficult to pick a topic not...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
The glow of someone else’s glory
Conclusion. For beginning see The Day No. 10
An open face-off between national-minded Ukrainian intellectuals and adherents of a “united and undivided Russia” began after the first Russian...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Tadashi Idzava: I can see great potential in Ukraine
The following is an interview with Mr. Tadashi Idzava, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine as of October 2008. As usual, The Day posed two questions: (a) What kind of...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Who is Nikolai Gogol to you?
Bohdan STUPKA, actor, artistic director of Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theater, who plays the title role in the motion picture Taras Bulba:“One ought to read Nikolai Gogol until it is too late,...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
What kind of Russia do I love?
What we need is a scholarly substantiated and ethically valid reconstruction of dramatic events, conflicts, and losses sustained by Ukrainians and Russians.Is this really possible in today’s Russia...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Youth on Mazepa
On Ivan Mazepa’s birthday, March 20, 2009, I happened to be in the Museum of Hetmanship at the launch of the book Shliakh do Poltavy (The Way to Poltava) by the contemporary Ukrainian historian Taras...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Looking for a children’s book
Last Thursday, on the birthday of the great fairy-tale author Hans Christian Andersen, we marked International Children’s Book Day. Shortly before this date, Ukrainian children’s libraries held the...
















