№9, (2009)
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Ukrainian problems and Russian factor: view from Berlin
The regional office of the Germany-based Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) in Ukraine and Belarus has organized a visit of a group of Ukrainian experts to Berlin to attend the...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day
For several months we have been able to see People’s Artists of Ukraine Ada Rohovtseva and Bohdan Stupka with children afflicted by Down syndrome on Kyiv’s billboards. There are also social ads in...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
A vogue manifesto from Oleh Skrypka
Oleh Skrypka and The Day have almost a five-year history of contacts and cooperation. On June 18, 2004, the newspaper carried a big-size announcement of the Dream Country ethnofestival, an...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Class against enthusiasm
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the fact that Metalist advanced to the Round of 16 for the soccer fans in Kharkiv. Metalist became the first team in the history of Kharkiv to reach such...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
This week in history
March 24 1935: A monument to Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko, designed by the sculptor Matvii Manizer, is unveiled in Kharkiv. March 25 1993: The National Central Interpol Bureau is founded...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Lessons to be learned
Despite its immense popularity in the early 1990s, the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) did not manage to accumulate the support of the Ukrainian citizens in order to come to power. Relying on...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
How the “Great Patriotic War” actually began
Seventy years ago, in March 1939, Ukrainian territories found themselves swept up by the deadly whirlwind of the Second World War. At the time, Ukrainians lived as nationals of various countries: in...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Shadow business gets the upper hand
In shadowboxing the shadow has never beaten the boxer. Ukraine’s economy is an altogether different story: it constantly loses to shadow business. The latest such defeat was suffered on March 17 when...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
It’s not them, it’s us
17th March was a truly Ukrainian day at the European Parliament in Brussels. On this day, the conference titled “All children deserve a future” under my patronage celebrated the achievements of...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Museum protection at stake
There is no doubt that the economic crisis has affected not only the pockets but also the souls of Ukrainians. The need to survive can have an adverse effect on people’s moral stability. Many experts...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Petro Kalnyshevsky’s legacy
The Holy Mother of God Birth Church in Lokhvytsia (1763–71), now in Poltava oblast, occupies a special place among the numerous religious structures built at the expense of Petro Kalnyshevsky (1690–...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Keen competition for Kyiv Pectoral award
The World Theater Day is traditionally marked on March 27. On this day the winners of Ukraine’s most prestigious Kyiv Pectoral Award are announced in Kyiv. This award was founded by the Kyiv branch...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Two views of Ukraine
The most recent session of the Diplomatic Club of the Open Ukraine Foundation turned out to be quite out of the ordinary. The US managing Editor of The Financial Times Chrystia Freeland spoke before...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Prevention not cheap
The president of Ukraine recently signed the Law “On Developing the 2009-2013 National Program to Secure Prevention of HIV Infection, Treatment, Care for and Support of HIV-Infected and AIDS-...
24.03.2009 - 00:00
Have you heard the bandura?
Zaporizhia — The kobzars’ art is not as popular as show business nowadays. It aims at spiritual development of a personality based on one’s ethnic identity. However, Ukrainians do not value their...

















