№12, (2009)
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a Ukrainian by creative spirit
Ukraine has given the world culture a lot of great figures who enriched other peoples’ cultures with their talent. Although Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is considered an outstanding Russian...
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Ukraine–Japan: partnership for modernizationa
Japan is the example of a country that has modernized itself still preserving its national identity. Now the Land of the Rising Sun is in a not-so-good economic situation caused by the crisis that...
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A path to know each others
The Day recently launched a high-profile series of publication, “What Kind of Russia Do We Love?” Within this series, The Day’s contributors, experts and readers speak on the people, culture, and...
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11-year-old in grade 8
Why are some people intellectually superior to others? This question appears especially topical for parents who see in their children the marks of a genius as soon as they are born and picture their...
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Commemorating Kvitka Cisyk
On the eve of Kvitka Cisyk’s birthday (1953–98) the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater held a memorial soiree. The participants included People’s Artists of Ukraine Nina...
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“Very ugly silence” broken as Ontario MPPs come together to recognize Ukraine genocide
The legislative assembly of Canada’s province Ontario has passed a law by a unanimous vote for the first time in its history. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych,...
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Vyshyvanka is stylish
CHERNIVTSI — I don’t know whether our project has become anything extraordinary, but for us, the students at the departments of history, political science, and international relationships of the...
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Clock is ticking
The official presidential campaign launch date is June 27, although it de facto started two weeks ago, if not earlier. Although the key candidates are still arguing about the date, the Central...
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Sich vacations
One can read countless legends, hear hundreds of narrations, see all the available movies about the Cossacks, but to experience true Cossack training seems something unachievable. And yet this is...
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This week in history
April 14 1940: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree instituting civilian registrar’s offices in Ukraine’s western oblasts. April 15 1919: The Central Executive...
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300 pages of Russian art
The White Hall of the National Museum of Russian Art welcomed Ukrainian painters, representatives of local authorities, and sponsors from various regions of Ukraine at the launch of the album-cum-...
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Chiasinau warning
If protest actions against the government lead to its downfall, it is a revolution, but if they fail, it is a rebellion. This is what the anticommunist revolution in Moldova ended up in. Now the...
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Private and collective property in historical context
1. KEY PHRASE FROM THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTOThe Orange Revolution gave an impetus to a generation change in government agencies, while 60-year-old politicians are being elbowed out by 40-year-olds....
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More storks in Vinnytsia village than in Denmark
“I remember a ringed stork that came from Africa; there were also birds from Romania. But our main ‘stork specialist’ Kostohryz will tell you better about them,” Halyna Mynai, the first person I met...
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Camp romance
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, as they say. The story of Svitlana Tomilina and Viktor Vasnetsov deserves to be described in a novel. In June 1941 Svitlana, a student of a Kyiv school and...

















