№14, (2006)
26.04.2006 - 00:00
“Poor people are not independent”
The leaders of the parties that ended up in parliament through the will of the electorate have found themselves in a situation best described by the noted Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov: “Upward...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
I too wanted to be Vakula!
Kyiv recently hosted the II specialized exhibit “Master Sword.” It featured displays from the Lviv History Museum, the Archaeology Museum at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
You cannot restore broken glass with a blow
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...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Easter greetings to Christians
The Day greets all Christians of Ukraine — Orthodox, Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics, and Protestants of all confessions, including latter-day ones, as well as Old Believers — with the Resurrection...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Carnations are in again
The advent of spring has brought a spate of now traditional floral exhibits to Ukraine’s capital. The floral season was launched by the exhibit “The Study of Flora and Landscape Design,” held in Kyiv...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Nuclear resuscitation
On the eve of this year’s Chornobyl anniversary, nuclear power engineering has become an especially acute topic. In particular, a new concept for the development of Ukraine’s fuel-energy complex was...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Stabat Mater: eight years later
The National Philharmonic Society recently hosted a concert of works by Rossini, which are rarely heard on the Kyiv stage. This time the celebrated Italian composer, who is known for his operas and...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
60 years after WWII a Japanese veteran is found in Ukraine
Last week a former soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, whose family has not seen him since he was mobilized for World War Two, arrived in Japan from Ukraine. The 83-year-old war veteran Isinosuke...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Chornobyl: past and future
President Viktor Yushchenko has called on all Ukrainian citizens to light candles on the night of April 26 to commemorate the victims of the Chornobyl disaster that took place exactly 20 years ago....
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Bottom Dollar
As more time passes with neither the value of the dollar declining sharply nor market forces beginning to shrink America’s current-account deficit — which may well reach $1 trillion this year — two...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Promises and ambitions
BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko has once again declared that she is ready to shed presidential ambitions during the 2009 elections for the sake of bringing the Orange team back together. Interfax...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Encounter with a master
The creative legacy left by the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani (Pirosmanashvili) (1862-1918) is an enigmatic manifestation of talent, originality, sincerity, and a child’s directness that seemed to...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
Painting a pysanka is like writing one’s life
Shortly before Easter, the Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art Museum in Kyiv conducted master classes on painting Ukrainian Easter eggs, known as pysanky. The Day’s reporters attended one of them. It was...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
A new national doctrine
The 10 th World Russian People’s Council ended its work in Moscow last week. It was attended by 2,500 delegates from every region of Russia and overseas. The theme of the council was: “Faith, Man,...
26.04.2006 - 00:00
CHORNOBYL: life “before” and “after”
The Chornobyl disaster is an event whose true significance for our nation, and all of humanity, we are just beginning to comprehend. Twenty years is too short a time for society to realize, at least...














