№6, (2012)
02.02.2012 - 00:00
“Non-standard”
Nearly 30 works from the series “Voice of My Soul” were presented in the art gallery Mystetska Zbirka in Kyiv. The exhibition will be open until February 19. For the first time after a long break...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukrainian society and the Holocaust
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops seized the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland where over 1.5 million Jews had been killed during the war. Since then this date has been observed as...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
“Red icons”
LVIV – The exhibit is presented by the icons from the private collection of Ivan Hrechko from Lviv. Collecting icons has been his hobby for more than half a century. Art expert Nazar KOZAK says the...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 13
What is your most terrifying debt? “The mortgage on my house,” says one. “My overdraft,” answers another. “It’s our nation’s massive economic deficit,” intones the politician. But there’s a debt...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Over 3,000 billboards about to disappear from the streets of Kyiv
Kyiv City Council approved the Concept of Outdoor Advertisement in the capital. This decision was passed by 96 MP votes out of 111 registered in the session hall. According to the Concept, there will...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Russia – 20 years without empire: historical lessons
(Continued from the previous issue)UKRAINE’S POLITICAL MAP WAS BEING FORMED IN THE CONDITIONS OF DEPENDENCE L.I.: “But the problem also is that Ukrainian society is very slow to offer a qualitative...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
A “cosmic actor”
Bohdan Stupka was awarded the Golden Eagle (a prize presented by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia) for the best male cameo in Oleg Pogodin’s Dom (Home). However,...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
On common cultural codes
Japan and Ukraine marked the other day the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. It is symbolic that President Yanukovych paid an official visit to Japan precisely a year...
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Let the concerned ones be active
On January 27 students were taking exams, as they were supposed to, behind closed classroom doors at Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University (ZhST). Then, after doing their primary educational duty,...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Every Ukrainian politician should know it!
While the 300th anniversary of Pereiaslavska Rada was celebrated with pomp and circumstance in the USSR somebody behind the “iron curtain” had to analyze the situation that had led to the known...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Monastery that gives worldly blessings
NOT FOR NUNS, BUT FOR CHILDRENThe students and teachers of Zymne school waited for this winter again with fear, not because people in Volyn region have already forgotten about those frosty winters,...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
“Knowledge of your history is a serious component of self-respect”
The open Ruska Pravda of the 11th century is lying in front of us – it has a leather cover with a stamping and brass locks. The parchment, which turned yellow because of age, features...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
A look from Davos
Marek SIWIEC, member of the European Parliament, is a constant participant of Ukrainian Lunch conferences in Davos. The Day asked him to give brief comments on the present forum in Davos and its...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Janusz BUGAJSKI: Ukraine must have EU membership and pan-European prospects
Janusz Bugajski, director of the New European Democracies Project at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, has been dealing with Ukrainian issues for almost 20...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Indigenization of cities
CHERNIHIV – The destruction of the authoritarian regime in late 2004 – early 2005 revealed a political map of Ukraine which became a surprise for many. This map proves to be essentially...














