№17, (2006)
30.05.2006 - 00:00
The Coming St. Putinsburg Summit
St. Petersburg is a great place in early summer, when the “White Nights” bathe the city’s imperial palac es and avenues. Small wonder, then, that Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to show off...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Attracting the investor
In July Kyiv will host a Ukrainian-Russian forum on the post-election investment climate in Ukraine, following the agreement reached last April between Anatoliy Kinakh, president of the Ukrainian...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
“Sweet” pictures
The title of the exhibit is “Acetone,” and the paintings are inspired by childhood memories of eating too much cream, a habit that can cause “acetone disease,” otherwise known as diabetes. The very...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Rights of the strong
Unfortunately it’s a long way to a truly noble goal, and it takes a lot of steps. “Right to Joy — An Exhibit for Children Challenged by Destiny,” which just opened at the Center for Contemporary Art...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Alternative friendship
A new organization has emerged in the post-Soviet space. At least its organizers wanted to present it this way, although it should be described as a somewhat altered structure of the existing GUAM...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
<I>“Ukraina Incognita”</I> and intellectual honesty
The Day’s Library Series already numbers five books, and none of the publications have gone unnoticed. This was born out at a meeting with well-known scholars, who are members of the Academy of...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
How Prince Ihor laid the foundations of Rus’-Ukraine
THE PRINCE’S FAMILY LINE AND MARRIAGE It takes a lifetime to forget cruelty. According to the chronicler Nestor’s Tale of Bygone Years, our hero, Prince Ihor, was an inadvertent witness to military...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Jacek Kluczkowski:
Poland has been a member of the European Union for two years and NATO, since 1999. Naturally, our western neighbor has accumulated considerable experience in the sphere of integration, which may come...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Love in the original language
Last Sunday the National Opera of Ukraine premiered Giacomo Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut. This is a joint Italian-American-Ukrainian production sponsored by the embassies of the US and Italy in...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Society and the state weighed on the scales of history
CONTEMPORARIES OF INDEPENDENCE
With this feature article by Stanislav Kulchytsky, a noted historian and regular contributor to our newspaper, the editors of The Day are launching a series of...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
A good-luck button
They say that a woman’s mind is never young. A woman is already of 3,000 years old at birth. A lot of people know cliches like that. I instantly fell in love with Zhenia Hapchynska, a female artist...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Experts differ over whether presidential campaign has already started
From elections to elections: this has been the main characteristic-the engine and helm of the political process in Ukraine for the past 10 years. At the same time, it is the main obstacle to...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
French couturiers travel to Ukraine in search of inspiration
The legendary, globe-trotting couturier Paco Rabanne has a soft spot for our country, which he has visited several times. He summed up the changes he has seen in the following metaphor: “Ukraine...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
Film about NATO in the works
Last Sunday a Ukrainian film crew left on a tour of NATO member states to make a movie about the North Atlantic alliance. The production is being sponsored by Ukraine’s foreign affairs and defense...
30.05.2006 - 00:00
We’ll rest-if we get there
The phrase “rural tourism” (“green tourism”) usually stumps people. What can you do in a village? What is there to see, say Ukrainians who are not familiar with this kind of tourism. Village...















