№11, (1998)
21.04.1998 - 00:00
THE GLITTER AND POVERTY OF TELEVISED SOCCER Random thoughts on contemporary sports journalism and journalism in sports
By Valentyn Shcherbachiov
Now we all know that sports and soccer in particular are closely tied with politics. But if sports is fair play and concrete results, high politics is different....
21.04.1998 - 00:00
THE ECONOMICS OF CLUELESSNESS
Prof. James Mace, Consultant to The Day
This week’s main news has nothing to do with the jockeying for the Speaker’s post in Parliament but with the government’s perpetual economic...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Some years ago (we won't say how many, because discretion about one's age is a universal woman's prerogative) Liudmyla Humeniuk, head of The Day English language service was born. All of her...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
UKRAINIAN WOMEN AND CRIMEAN TATARS TO GET USA HELP. FINANCING OF FIRST MIGRATION PROJECTS WILL START IN MAY
By Oksana Panchenko,
The Day
Research conducted by the International Migration Organization has called forth various reactions in US official circles. The issue is the threatening scope of...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
MYKOLA TOMENKO: EVOLUTION OF COMMUNISTS IMPOSSIBLE
Interviewed by Oleh Ivantsov,
The Day
Communist slogans and rhetoric, imbibed from “reforms,” allow the Parteigenossen to confidently occupy their niche on the Ukrainian election market...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
ENTREPRENEURS PLACED UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL In terms of the number of roadblocks thrown up the state racket leads
By Yana Moiseyenkova, The Day
The experts of International Financial Corporation will soon announce the results of the poll, involving 200 representatives of small and medium business from...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
LOOKING BACK AT THE OUTGOING PARLIAMENT
Volodymyr Zolotariov, The Day
The second Parliament of independent Ukraine has ended its term. An event which is significant and routine at the same time. Routine because Parliament with its...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
WHO WILL BE SPEAKER AND PREMIER?
Although the postelection state of the Ukrainian economy is such that one can no longer discuss prospects with any degree of certainty, the political show goes on. Even though unnoticeable to an...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
FIRST TIME AS PROFESSIONAL
By Dmytro Marusenko, The Day
Kyiv has not had a big-time tennis event for a long time. The Ukrainian team appearing in Davis Cup competition showed that there is great interest in this sport...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
NEW OMBUDSMAN ELECTED
Information Bureau of The Day
On April 14, 270 People’s Deputies voted for Nina Karpachova, electing her the Verkhovna Rada’s Human Rights Plenipotentiary. The victor’s request to be...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
BASKETBALL
The regular season of the Ukrainian basketball super league is over. The quarterfinal games will take place April 17 and 20-21 in case of ties. Budivelnyk of Kyiv will meet with Spartak of Luhansk,...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
THE PRESIDENT KEEPS HIS DACHA IN ORDER HIMSELF
During a meeting in Dnipropetrovsk our head of our state is reported to have been criticized by the media and above all by the leaders of opposition Hromada Party for “having several dachas...”...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
LVIV COUNTERFEITERS LOSE $500,000 IN FUNNY MONEY
Law enforcement officers of the Lychakivsky district of Lviv have arrested a group of counterfeiters, seizing $477,800 in bogus US $100 bills. In addition the culprits lost three automobiles, a...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
Prisoners of their own memories
Our memory needs ritual, to give vent to the never-ending pain in our heart. One such ritual took place at the Obelisk to the Unknown Soldier in Kyiv last Saturday, the Day of Liberation of Nazi...
21.04.1998 - 00:00
THE CASPIAN CHARADE
MOSCOW. Naturally, with all the fuss about Russia’s government crisis and daily expectations of the young candidate Premier’s failure in the Duma, followed by the President’s stamping his foot and...









