№27, (2009)
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Ukrainian appetites grow
After two summer months marking a second round in consumer moods getting from bad to worse, August 2009 showed a degree of optimism, reads a press release based on a joint project by GfK and the...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Ukrainian honey best in the world
Kyiv will soon become the honey capital of the world. At the 41st International Congress of the World Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations APIMONDIA, which took place on Sept. 15–20, 2009, in...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
A spirit that breaks shackles
Opening a new, hitherto unknown, page in our present-day or past existence is always a sizable gain in the work of a journalist. Those who make the newspaper Den can be proud that this publication is...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Test for presidential candidates
On Sept. 24–27, 2009, Yalta hosted to the sixth Yalta European Strategy (YES) summit. The key topic on the agenda was “Ukraine and the World after the Crisis.” This traditional nongovernmental forum...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Welcome, Mr. Teft!
US President Barack Obama has recently appointed John Teft US ambassador to Ukraine. This career diplomat has a vast experience working in the post-Soviet countries. In 1996-99 he was the first...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Books for children
“Books for Children” is the name of a benevolent project launched last year. It has since then been supported by noted publishing companies, writers, cultural figures, athletes, central and regional...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Gazzaev’s first loss
This had to happen sooner or later. Soccer teams that do not lose simply do not exist. So Dynamo’s 12-game winning streak with its new, Russian-born coach Valery Gazzaev had to snap at some point....
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Just do it
The relationship between Ukraine and the EU may be accurately and succinctly described in one phrase: they both agree the other is important, but they don’t understand or trust one another. The story...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Fatherland and the USSR
Russia is getting increasingly involved in a debate on 19th-century history. Whereas previously it was an effort to combat what Moscow was fond of describing as “falsifications of joint history” in...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Dangerous games with memory
Klasphemous as it is, the fact remains that the Ukrainian and foreign media have for several days actively debated the construction of a hotel on the grounds of Babyn Yar. Not so long ago the Kyiv...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
The two colors of Dmytro Pavlychko
On September 28 Dmytro Pavlychko celebrated his 80th birthday. For Den’s young journalists, who studied Pavlychko’s oeuvre as classics at school, the very fact of meeting the poet is a great event....
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Dnipropetrovsk dump appalls Ukraine
The Dnipropetrovsk Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a shocking case: a huge bread dump was discovered on the side of the road leading to Kryvy Rih. Thousands of loaves of bread heaped together...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Art dialogues with Andre Jolivet
The Embassy of France and the French Cultural Center recently launched Flowers of Romance, an exhibit of Andr? Jolivet’s paintings, at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The exhibit will remain open...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
Odesa Port-Side Plant not sold
Paradoxically, Odesa Port-Side Plant (OPSP) remains state property, according to the results of the sale competition in Ukraine’s State Property Fund (USPF). The OPSP is the monopolist on the state...
06.10.2009 - 00:00
“Two voices are good for a song, but bad for politics”
It would hard for unprepared readers to grasp your complete oeuvre, because it is not only vast but also profoundly philosophical in many respects. Have you found your audience, people who understand...












