№12, (2008)
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Music anthology
The first seven CDs in the anthology series present the works of the contemporary Ukrainian composers Yevhen Stankovych, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk, Ihor Shcherbakov, Volodymyr Zubytsky,...
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Next to a throne there is always a scaffold
One empress once wrote on a monument to her predecessor: The second to the first. Yulia Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, deserves the title of the first because she is the first woman in...
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“Pure education”
Despite the fact that Ukraine joined the Bologna Process several years ago and external independent knowledge assessment has been implemented for many years, corruption in the sphere of education is...
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Estonian support
Estonia has been a member of NATO for nearly four years and supports granting Ukraine NATO’s Membership Action Plan at the upcoming summit in Bucharest. Can Russia somehow block the further...
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Beauty comes alive in porcelain
Avid collectors of porcelain are very familiar with the Spanish brand Lladro, which is universally famous not only for its beautiful products but also for limited-edition rarities that are known for...
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The first female mayor of Detroit was Ukrainian
She could have been nominated for the title of a “great Ukrainian woman.” Unfortunately, her life’s work for the benefit of society is better known in the US than in Ukraine. On Feb. 29 Mary Virginia...
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This week in history
April 1 1922: Artem Communist University is founded in Kharkiv. 1992: The Center for Fundamental Research is established in Kyiv. April 2 1924: The Donbas Relief Committee is founded in Ukraine. 1991...
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Kyiv sees Lviv’s artistic face for the first time in 40 years
The finest works of 20th-century artists from Lviv are on display at Kyiv’s Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine as part of the project “Art Map of Ukraine: Lviv” (the exhibit will remain open until...
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Intellectuals comment on the crisis in the humanities sphere in Ukraine
Bohdan KOZAK, People’s Artist of Ukraine, professor, and dean of the Faculty of Culture and Arts at Lviv National Ivan Franko University: “I do not believe in collective decisions and meetings...
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America the Beautiful
PART TWO (Conclusion. For Part One, see The Day’s previous issue) I will briefly recapitulate the main points of the first part of my article: 1. The USSR would have never won the Second World War...
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New dimension
Ukrainian-American relations gain new economic dimension: the sides are moving from declarations to practice. Proof of this is the first in recent seven years visit of US President George Bush to...
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The key to the Middle East
Yevhen Mykytenko, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Arab Republic of Egypt, is convinced that Cairo is one of the “keys” to Ukraine’s effective access to the Middle...
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C-U-L-T-U-R-E!
Last Thursday the National Opera of Ukraine hosted the All-Ukrainian Intelligentsia Forum, which was attended by President Viktor Yushchenko. The event was held on the initiative of the National...
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“Let us consider the individual”
It will clearly take a long time for Ukrainian society to join the third wave of human civilizational development, which Alvin Toffler calls the “superindustrial society.” Without a doubt, we will...
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A city where God eavesdrops
There are towns whose provincial obscurity conceals their true grandeur, next to which some capital cities fade into the background. The works of Olha Kobylianska and Yurii...















