Friends of the National Art Museum Find New Friends

English and Ukrainian were spoken at the soiree, which also underlined the event's carefully prepared and perhaps previously forecast importance. Most of those who came were foreign nationals residing in Ukraine's capital. By coming to the affair, they responded to the foundation's appeal to raise funds to renovate the entrance to the National Art Museum. But Ukrainians also did not stay on the sidelines: as Iryna Stetsura noted in an interview with The Day, some of our compatriots, enchanted by the reception, promised to bring their friends to subsequent functions to be held at the National Art Museum itself.