Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

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18.01.2000 - 00:00

Premier for Life?

The Day has learned that Ukraine will soon have a new office dealing with material procurement for central governmental bodies. The Day’s Oleksandr MIKHELSON confirmed this information with the...
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OUTLAWING JUDICIAL MURDER:

On December 20, the Constitutional Court voted ten to six to outlaw capital punishment. 410 inmates of death rows across Ukraine received the best possible Christmas gift. Now they could sleep...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

Restaurant Masterpieces Save National Art Museum

Is it possible to support the National Art Museum, domestic producer, and restaurant business, all at the same time? Even the latter two components do not always produce a positive effect in Ukraine...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

Black Sea Fleet to Get Nuclear Wings

Ukraine has finally agreed to the Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet being equipped with Su-24m front line strike fighters. The Russian Military News Agency has reported that as soon as this week the first...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

National Opera Hopes to Catch the Firebird

The maiden night of Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird is scheduled for January 21 at the National Opera. The ballet is being staged in record time: 20 days. Not because the company wants to show how...
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Trap for Putin

News releases from the Chechnya War fronts are becoming more and more truthful even in the Russian mass media. While only a few weeks ago Russian society was surprised by Western reactions to what is...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

Remembering Solomiya

Ukraine’s seasonal merrymaking was marred by one irreparable loss. On New Year’s Eve Solomiya Pavlychko perished in a tragic household accident. I had known her for a good decade, but I cannot say we...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

Ukraine in Search of Itself

Independence is certainly the main result of the past millennium for Ukraine, but why did History need it? For us Ukrainians, everything is perfectly clear: independence is the way to self-...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

How Hard to Be a Warlock

In childhood the New Year is magic! The house is full of the smell of pines. You see your reflection in Christmas tree decorations. Plates, knives, forks, and spoons jingle as a festive table is...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

US Values Dialogue With Ukraine, Russia on Limited NMD System

After more than a quarter century the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty remains a major contributor to strategic nuclear stability. Yet, just as the end of the Cold War heralded the advance of...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

Ukrainian History In Wax

I don’t know how many life-size wax figure museums there are in the world, except the famous Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition in London. In any case, precisely such an exhibit opened in Kyiv last week. A...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

While The Day is the ambassadors’ favorite medium of communication with Ukraine, experts believe

That life in this country also exists after the elections is testified to at least by the fact that, after numerous presidential rankings, polling organizations began to conduct other surveys of...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

European Standard Basketball In Kyiv

For Ukrainian basketball aficionados, the New Year started with a new tournament. The best known basketball players in the post- Soviet space — 1988 Seoul Olympic champions Oleksandr Volkov and...
18.01.2000 - 00:00

Leonid Kuchma will not Demur from Referendum

“The President feels certain that a referendum will take place, despite Verkhovna Rada passing its moratorium bill. No basic changes will be made in the preparations for the referendum; the...
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The Triumph and Tragedy of Rukh

Out of the ten years of Rukh’s existence, the first two can be called a triumph, while over the remaining eight years of the Popular Movement of Ukraine has been gradually but steadily losing its...

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