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Volyn University supports The Day and Ostroh Academy’s initiative

Kostiantyn Ostrozky (a.k.a. Konstanty Ostrogski) was not only a noted military leader, politician, Kyiv voivode and Lithuanian hetman, but also marszalek of Volyn and starosta of Lutsk. Therefore, the decision of the Academic Council of the Lesia Ukrainka National University of Volyn (Resolution #8, Feb. 26, 2010) to support the initiative of The Day and Ostroh Academy National University to proclaim 2010 the Year of Kostiantyn Ostrozky in Ukraine looks quite logical and well motivated.

Frankness of a “political hooligan”

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Osyp Zinkevych speaks about “Ukrainian work”


THE DAY WEEKLY DIGEST	#14, Thursday, 4 March 2010


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DAY AFTER DAY

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CLOSEUP

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SOCIETY

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CULTURE

	Keep making films! The bright red carpet of the International Berlin Film Festival is empty now. The winners have been announced and the festive closing ceremony is over. The Bears have been bestowed, as have many other awards, which will determine the future destinies of their recipients.


PERSONALITY

	World and Smoloskyp Osyp Zinkevych, director of the legendary Smoloskyp Publishing House can rank with patriarch Mstyslav, Oleksandr Koshyts, Ivan Bahriany, Yuri Luckyj, Hryhorii Kostiuk, George Yurii Shevelov, etc. They survived thanks to the other – non-Soviet – world which sheltered them. And being far from continental Ukraine, they did everything to preserve the


TRAVEL

	Exhibition of achievements in communal life Kyivan by birth, the New York-based artist Volodymyr Davydenko is an authentic “Big Apple” poet. An interview with Volodymyr in New York inspired the “Cities and Places” column. Today we publish a new conversation about Brooklyn, one of New York’s boroughs.

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