№47, (2012)
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Plants and flowers art
For the first time the Chocolate House hosts an exhibition of a florist artist, who despite her disability (blindness) is engaged in creative work and makes her own pictures. She makes her works with...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Rockers promote healthy lifestyle in Kherson
The Fifth International Rock Festival “Step into the Future” will take place in Kherson from August 31 through September 1 under the slogan “No to drugs, smoking, and alcohol.” According to the...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
The Day’s library has been replenished with 15 books
The Day is bringing to the Lviv Forum of Publishers a whole new series of books, “Armor-piercing political writing.” This formidable title was not accidental, for this series includes the best works...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Denys SYLANTIEV: “Only people who rely on themselves can make good sportsmen”
A well-known sportsman, active citizen, and, since last week, parliamentary candidate told The Day about what encourages him to invest in the state, what he thinks about the language law, why he...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Pussy Riot will set you free
Among all the media hype, surrounding the case of Pussy Riot, none of the numerous observers seems to have tried and dig into the band’s artistic pedigree. Interestingly, Pussy Riot’s protest actions...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Kamianets will become a capital again
On August 24 through 25 Kamianets-Podilsky (Khmelnytsky oblast) will hold the Second Military-Historical Festival “Last Capital,” dedicated to the UNR time. As a reminder: in 1919-20...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
The 25th anniversary season
The Les Kurbas Theater opened the new season with the last premiere of the last season, the play Lisova Pisnia by Lesia Ukrainka, created with the assistance of Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
“A historically new situation for Russia”
“Russian ruling elite can be described through a model of Soviet collective governmental body – the CPSU Central Committee’s Politburo,” such a conclusion was made by the...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
“The Communist Party was bought and tamed in the Kuchma era”
August 22, 1991, saw the end of the so-called August Putsch, when the State of Emergency Committee (GKChP), established a few days before, ceased to exist. The past 21 years have been a historic...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Search for ineffective owners or enrichment instinct?
Bureaucrats are going to teach Ukrainian farmers how to farm well on the leased land. In any case, this is the impression one can gain from the statement of Mykhailo Dobkin, head of the Kharkiv...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Warsaw allows dual nationality
The other day Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski signed a law allowing dual nationality. According to the new legislation, an applicant for a Polish passport need not refuse the previous...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
Chainsaw versus balaclava
I seldom write about the women’s movement FEMEN because as newsmakers they have hardly ever been worth writing about. However, this time around they sent more powerful ripples than their hackneyed...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
A political, rather than esthetic, gesture
Ukrainians are ready to join the initiative put forward by The Day and put on stylish embroidered shirts on Independence Day.
Donning an embroidered shirt on this special day is not a political...
23.08.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1037: Chronicles mention the foundation by Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyivan Rus’ first library at St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv. 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s army defeats Polish troops at Pilavtsi....














