The Books from <I>The Day</I>’s Library Will Come Out in Russian

Den’/The Day is the only newspaper not only in Ukraine but perhaps also throughout CIS that comes out in three languages: Ukrainian, Russian, and English. It was only natural that we decided to start the new year with a present to the readers of our Russian language version, publishing books from The Day’s library in Russian (they are to appear in the first half of February). We hope that the readers in Russia will also find them interesting, since this year is special in that it is the year of the Pereyaslav Rada anniversary. This historic event has not yet received unambiguous evaluation from historians. Den’/The Day has made an attempt to contribute into its analysis, publishing the Dvi Rusi [Two Rus’s] book in 2003.

Ukraine and Russia... The two countries are so close to each other that it gives reason for the flourishing myth about a “single country, single people, and single history,” which can be logically continued to “single state,” but simultaneously so different. Do we know everything about their past, single or not? Have the Ukrainians and Russians overcome all their historical myths, stereotypes, and superstitions in their minds? Among authors of the 68 articles collected in this book dedicated to controversial moments in Ukrainian-Russian relations there are many familiar names that constantly appear in our newspaper: historians, philosophers, philologists, culturologists, journalists, and local historians. Among them are Serhiy Krymsky, Yury Shapoval, Lina Kostenko, Viktor Horobets, Volodymyr Panchenko, Petro Kraliuk, and others

Dvi Rusi was the second book in The Day’s Library. First was Ukraine Incognita presented in 2002 at our newspaper’s sixth anniversary. It contains the life stories of vivid personalities, globally recognized as well as less familiar to the public, whose name brought fame to Ukraine and are inseparably linked with it. This is the history of Ukrainians’ spiritual deeds — architects, painters, composers, warriors, poets, etc; the history of people’s millennium-long fight for their freedom and decent life. All this can be found in the collection of articles on the relevant problems of the early, medieval, and contemporary history of Ukraine published by Den’/The Day in 1997-2002 in the Ukraine Incognita and History and I sections of our newspaper. What brings the book together is not only chronology but also a simple idea: we are all heirs to hundreds of generations that lived in the Ukrainian land before us. The history shouldnot be terra incognita; this is our responsibility to our descendants and to the future.

Both books were published under general editorship of Den’/The Day’s Editor-in-Chief Larysa Ivshyna.

You can order the books by phone +38 (044) 414-6400 or email [email protected].

The Editors thank the Modern Information Technology Ltd. for its assistance in carrying out the project of publishing Dvi Rusi and Ukraine Incognita in Russian.