№54, (2012)
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Book Forum ended in Lviv
The event lasted from September 12 through 16, when both Leopolitans and guests of the city had an opportunity to participate in a huge literary and artistic performance held for the 19th time by...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
The world offers creative ideas when you look at it with wide-open eyes
I was so much impressed by one picture by Lilia Pashynska (a friend of mine received it as a present) that I came up with a desire to meet the artist. The picture showed Jesus with two rays...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Turkey-Russia partnership: signs of a rift
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Azerbaijan was more than a meeting between the leaders of two countries. The situation in the South Caucasus is anything but stable....
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Koktebel, “Blue Bay” and Jazz
International Festival “Live in Blue Bay” took place for the fourth time in the Crimean resort Blue Bay. This is the only forum where everyone could enjoy good music and listen to the...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1869: Date of birth of Mykola Tsertelev, Ukrainian folklorist, one of the first researchers and publishers of Ukrainian folk art. 1919: In Zhmerynka (Ukraine) an interim agreement on joint struggle...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Verkhovna Rada plans to reintroduce the article about criminal responsibility for defamation
On September 18 members of the Ukrainian Parliament voted in the first reading for the amendments to the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and by doing so they increased the scope...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Failure because of consumption
The state program for development of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex till 2017 is to be created by the end of the current year. This is what the deputy director general of the state...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Liudmyla YURINA: Introducing anything new in Ukraine requires tremendous efforts
Liudmyla Yurina is a representative of the “middle generation” of Kyiv School of Composers. Her music is well-known in Europe and the US. Yurina often goes to the Western countries,...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Paradoxes of post-Soviet consciousness
The parliament will have only two plenary sessions before the October elections: on October 2 and 16. The rest of the working days the people’s deputies will work in the districts, committees...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
92 billionaires to join Buffet and Gates
According to Gates’ statement, the number of billionaires who have supported the initiative of the wealthiest Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, Giving Pledge, having pledged to give 50...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Pertti TORSTILA: “You have to do your homework and make up your mind about where you want to be”
Opponents to Ukraine’s NATO membership quite often point to Finland’s neutrality as an example to be emulated by our country. Is this Scandinavian country, which joined the EU in 1995...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Sanctioned barbarism
Environmental and animal protection organizations of Ukraine have urged the Ministry for Ecology again to ban the use of such a terrible poison as zinc phosphide. The demand is that the ministry...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Elections as a decoration
The fifth parliamentary elections in Belarus will take place next Sunday. According to the existing majoritarian system, 110 MPs will be elected from the corresponding number of districts to the...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Monument to village community – the righteous of this world – the only of its kind in Europe was opened in Bukovyna
The Monument to the Righteous was unveiled in the foothill village of Ispas in Chernivtsi oblast.
The monument was built to pay the tribute to the local community, which in 1941 led by village...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
“When people are having tea, all discrimination ceases to exist”
Great Master Sen Genshitsu, descendant of the founder of Sen no Rikyu tea ceremony, visited Ukraine for the first time. He gave an exclusive interview to The Day on the eve of his tea ceremony...















