Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№18, (2007)

19.06.2007 - 00:00

<I>Spas</I> Cossack boat returns to Kyiv

After a voyage by sea from Ukraine to Georgia, a Zaporozhian Cossack boat, known as a chaika, returned to Kyiv. On June 12, the intrepid mariners were welcomed at Trukhaniv Island on the Dnipro River...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

The country of Kyiv

Drawing a portrait of the average resident of Kyiv, as the capital’s sociologists and political strategists set about doing this recently at a roundtable called “The Average Resident of Kyiv: Who Is...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Declaration of the Kyiv Patriarchate

A book entitled The Kyiv Patriarchate — the Local Ukrainian Orthodox Church: A Historical-Canonical Declaration (issued by the publishing department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Different visions of prospects

Brussels and Kyiv have different visions of Ukraine’s future place in an enlarged Europe. Although there is nothing unusual about this, a European future and the paths to the European Union are also...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

The unknown Arsen Richynsky

Arsen Richynsky was born 115 years ago, on June 12, 1892 (Old Style; New Style: June 25). Although the anniversary of his birth is not a round figure this year, it is still an occasion to remember...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Auditing Department proposes liquidating Energy Company of Ukraine

The Main Control and Auditing Department of Ukraine (KRU) has detected financial violations amounting to some 500 million hryvnias after an initial inspection of the 2005-06 performance of the...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Chechelnyk spells “sincerity”

On June 12 The Day’s team arrived in Chechelnyk, a small town in Vinnytsia oblast. After visiting the series of wonderful exhibits in Kyiv, Ostroh, Kharkiv, and Chernivtsi, some people would be taken...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

A great master

The Ukrainian monumentalist painter, graphic artist, and art historian Mykhailo Dmytrenko (1908- 1997) belongs to the generation of national artists who, by force of difficult circumstances and...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Lessons on the geography of pop songs

The More druziv (An Ocean of Friends) competition for young pop singers was founded in Yalta in 1996. This year was the third time it was held at Ukraine Palace in Kyiv, the country’s most...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Penetrating deep into the brain without touching it

The abode of thought: this philosophical image of the human brain suggests something lofty and unfathomable. But from the standpoint of medical treatment, the brain is a vulnerable element. Cerebral...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Polish way of revising literary classics

These days in Polish bookstores you can purchase books by Witold Gombrowicz, Gustav Herling-Grudzinski, and Franz Kafka at a big discount. These books are placed in a special section in bookstores,...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

On your mark!

Nearly two months have passed since Ukraine and Poland won the bid to host the final tournament of the European soccer championship in 2012. Last Friday, the Ministry for Regional Development and...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

Tales for adults

Iryna Ternavska’s solo exhibit of batiks and paintings has opened at Gallery 36, located on Kyiv’s art strip, Andriivsky uzviz. Ternavska’s world is romantic and somewhat fairytale-like and dreamy....
19.06.2007 - 00:00

International exercise in Chornobyl

“All nuclear tests and any other nuclear explosions shall be banned” is the key phrase in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that was proposed by the UN General Assembly and opened for...
19.06.2007 - 00:00

F. Stephen Larrabee: “Putin’s declarations irritated the Europeans”

What do American experts think about Vladimir Putin’s declarations that Russia may aim its missiles at the EU in response to US plans to deploy parts of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense...

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