№2, (2012)
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Valerii BALAIAN: The “brown threat” in Russia started acting in the legal framework
Your film called Love me, please will be shown in Berlin timed to the anniversary of Nastia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov’s murder. It seems that the trial finished and the murderers are...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
On the particularities of presidential campaign in Finland, or What role the EU topic, the eurozone crisis, and values play in these elections
Next Sunday Finland is going to elect its next president. According to that country’s observers, these elections are very important, as were all the previous ones, even though the head of state now...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Pursuing the preemptive tactic while the state is inert”
The book The Power of the Soft Sign has been republished for the first time. The publishers say that there is no precedent for such popularity of serious social and political works.
The demand...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Neo-Nazi threat behind a national democracy front?
Today Moscow is holding a march and a rally in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. Novaya gazeta says the Moscow mayor has approved both events, while St. Petersburg has banned a...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1652: Cossack envoys, led by Colonel Ivan Iskra, start traveling from Chyhyryn to Moscow to make an alliance with Muscovy. 1906: Shershen, Ukraine’s first illustrated socialist weekly eight-page...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Big Ben’s older brother
The difference in age of clock brothers in Lviv and London is seven years. “The clock on Lviv City Hall was installed in 1851,” told The Day Ilko LEMKO, expert in Lviv study. “The...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“With name of Borys Liatoshynsky we made ourselves known in history of world’s music”
Borys Liatoshynsky Prize and Mykhailo Verykivsky Prize are awarded on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and the National Union of Composers of Ukraine – they are the co-founders of the prestigious...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Kyiv’s “horizontal line of command”
Oleksandr Popov, head of the Kyiv City State Administration, is lucky enough to have had “good” predessors. Even if Popov showed no activity at all, he would still stand out against the...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 12
What do our commercials say about us? Imagine yourself an explorer from another galaxy, stumbling across Earth. For technical reasons, you can stay for several minutes only. You’re beamed down, by...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Design is always a participant in sociopolitical events”
“If looked at from above, Mystetsky Arsenal is a square in form. The logo is also associated with a picture frame and the black square of Kazimir Malevich who, even though considered a...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Another Euro-2012 challenge
The Ukrainians who are going to visit European Union countries must take care, well in advance, about the “plastic content” of their wallets. From January 1, 2012, on, one can get cash from European...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Mykhailo CHECHETOV: I’m grateful to opposition
Mykhailo Chechetov cuts a spectacular figure as a Ukrainian MP, simply because he is always ready to support even the most dubious initiative of the current regime with five-dollar words.
It is...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Traditions beautify, but not replace, feasts”
Today the Orthodox and Greek Catholics are celebrating Epiphany, also known in the Ukrainian folk tradition as Baptism of Our Lord. The feast was established in memory of an evangelical event...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“A mature nation knows its heroes at once, and immediately adds them to its political or cultural ‘armory’”
Ukraine’s first online translation of a live performance on You Tube, the presentation of Sviatoslav Vakarchuk’s new project “Brussels,” seen by more than 100,000 viewers in...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Tuning fork that always rings”
Each year on January 14, day of St. Basil, the prominent personalities with name Vasyl are remembered: Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Symonenko, Vasyl Chumak, Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny. They all were born around...












