“A View on Ukraine’s History Not from Warsaw, Moscow, Nor Washington”
A presentation of two collections of etudes on history and culture, Ukraine Incognita and The Two Rus’s, from The Day’s Library series under the editorship of Larysa Ivshyna took place in Ivano-Frankivsk. Last Wednesday students and professors of the Vasyl Stefanyk Prykarpattia University familiarized themselves with these publications.
Professor Mykola Kuhutiak, Chairman of the History Department, stressed The Day’s “outstanding role in consolidating and uniting society.” In his view, it is precisely history, whose unknown pages and problems are highlighted in The Day, that has great “potential for national and state building... Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislaviv) was the last capital of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic, and our collection of sources on the liberation struggle of 1918-1919 is the best in Ukraine. Neither Kyiv, nor Lviv can boast experts of such a level; we promise to send interesting materials to your newspaper that will demonstrate a view on Ukraine’s history not from Warsaw, Moscow, nor Washington.”
Ph.D. in history Oleksandr Marushchenko said, “I am your newspaper’s constant reader, since it helps me as both a citizen and historian to work out and review my own stand in concert with social and political processes. I am attracted by its high professional level and lack of the yellow journalism characteristic for most media outlets. Our society suffers serious moral and ethical problems. The Day is distinguished with its scholarly approach, and we, professors, recommend it to our students. Its materials exceed the bounds of ordinary newspaper articles, becoming serious state affair. Among such issues are World War II, OUN and UPA history, the Volyn events (your newspaper’s articles on these topics were the best, most balanced, and professional). I would wish that The Day published its materials on the 1942-1943 Volyn tragedy as a separate collection.”
The Day’s historical and educational works were also presented to the pupils of the boarding school for orphaned children in Ivano- Frankivsk suburb Uhornyky at last Tuesday’s Book for Children charitable action. The newspaper’s representative gave deputy head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Educational Administration Ihor Havryliuk ten copies of The Two Rus’s, one of which will remain at the boarding school’s library, while others will be distributed among similar educational institutions of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Pro-rector of Prykarpattia University Volodymyr Velykochy paid for twenty more copies of this publication for school libraries in highlands villages of Verkhovyna district.
Last Thursday The Day’s photo exhibition based on the results of the Fifth Day 2003 Photo Contest was opened in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Museum of Local History.
