№8, (2011)
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This day in history
1900: Ukraine’s first political party, the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), is founded. 1940: The first 220,000 Western Ukrainians are deported [on Stalin’s orders]. 1940: The Organization of...
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EVENT
Tender for Kerch Strait bridge
The Russian Vnesheconombank has announced the tender for a market feasibility study for the Kerch Strait transport crossing construction project,...
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A year of Yanukovych, seen from abroad
The first year of Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency has produced mixed feelings in Ukraine. Sometimes it’s important to hear an opinion from outside. Thus, readers will be interested to...
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Steel and tenderness
Writing about sculpting is quite strange for me, even though I have done a bit of it myself. My home movie collection has been linked to sculpture for a long time. Suffice it to mention Ivan...
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Boombox traveling overseas
The Ukrainian funky groove band Boombox, which has suddenly burst onto the country’s stale pop music arena, surprised everybody by managing not only to catch on but becoming so popular that it is...
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The development of the North is not a hockey tournament
Your recent edition (No. 5, February 1, 2011) presented a useful and timely analysis of why the Arctic is so important to the world and why Ukraine should bother with it. In those same pages, another...
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On real “efficiency”
In an age of information technologies, when knowledge is paramount, the Donetsk community is determined to resist the closure of local Ukrainian-language school. The power of local authorities to...
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Outstanding performance by Ukrainians
The 25th World Winter Universiade, held in Turkey, has come to an end. The Ukrainian team’s performance was great. Our team placed third in the general classification, having won 15 awards: six gold...
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Take the first step
The Day regularly writes about abandoned and homeless animals. Not to make readers feel sorry, but with a pragmatic purpose: to find homes and owners for homeless animals, with the help of...
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A visit to the stock exchange
During his two-day visit to Poland the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his Polish colleague Bronislaw Komorowski visited the Warsaw Stock Exchange on February 4. Afterwards the presidents...
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Ukrainian armed forces under threat
On January 12, 2011, 103 out of the 417 registered members of the Ukrainian parliament voted for changes to the Law “On the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” The bill provided for two percent...
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Literary freedom for Belarusians
The 17th Minsk International Book Fair will be held on February 9-13. The Ukrainian publishers and book sellers have been taking part in this international exhibition for eight years. They go there...
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The heart of an “iron poet”
Natalka and Yevhen were tied up with invisible spiritual threads. They left an indelible trace in the life of each other: he was tormented with her refusal and she with having caused him such an...
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Virastiuk and Sylantiev read fairy tales to children
Two outstanding Ukrainian athletes, Denys Sylantiev and Vasyl Virastiuk, took part in the reading marathon “Tell a child a fairy tale” in Lviv. In the kindergarten No. 43 they read...
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Yevhen Zherebetsky: Factors that felled the Soviet Union are still there…
In 2004, the journal Yi published Yevhen Zherebetsky’s article “The End of an Empire” in which he predicted the fall of the Russian Federation as the final stage in the collapse...














