№11, (2000)
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Viktor LYSYTSKY: “The lobbyists have it hard because all Cabinet decisions are transparent”
Viktor Lysytsky, a professional shipbuilder from a family with several generations of shipwrights who still sends cards to his former colleagues on Shipbuilders’ Day, is now referred to as Ukraine’s...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Soros Warns
As a professor at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy National University, which George Soros has done a great deal to support, I can testify to his commitment to Ukraine. He has reduced the budget of his...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
NOTES OF A JURY MEMBER
As we promised, we are publishing the best pieces of the
contest named The Press and the State conducted by the Institute of Mass
Information (president Alla Lazareva and director Yuliya...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
This week in history
April 4: 1838. Taras Shevchenko was bought out of serfdom.
1919. Ukrainian Front troops entered the Crimea, taking the cities of Perekop and Virmensky Bazar.
April 5: 1657. A council of...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
New Nomenklatura Does not Burn on Gas nor Sink in Parliament
The sensational resignation of Naftohaz Ukrayiny chairman of the board Ihor Bakai was presented in a manner that will long keep it in the press’s attention. The more so that Mr. Bakai called on...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Who Lost Russia?
The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991 offered a historic opportunity to transform that part of the world into open societies, but the Western democracies failed to...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
NO APPEAL
On March 29, the Constitutional Court (CC) announced its ruling on the constitutionality of the President’s decree to hold a Ukrainian referendum on the people’s initiative.
The CC recognized as...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
PECTORAL SMACKING OF BRONZE
The ceremony of presenting the Kyiv Pectoral 1999 theatrical
award turned into a pompous three-hour show. This time, it seemed, the
organizing committee was determined to stage a real...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
One Hundred Days of PR
A sensitive nation like the Ukrainians seems to need a Hero. It is desirable that the hero be handsome and at least not poor, for those who expect a fairy-tale want to forget their own hardships...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Left Flank Is Abandoned as Everybody Moves toward the Center
The Ukrainian Left is living through a trying period. After the epoch of “casting away stones” — traditionally large-scale election campaign promises, undisguised capitalizing on the electorate’s...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Boris Xiaoping
Vladimir Putin’s first meeting after the elections was with former President Boris Yeltsin. They met at Mr. Yeltsin’s dacha. “The second President met the first,” was television journalists’ comment...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Energy Market Council Opposes Tymoshenko Initiative
The directors of the Energy Market Council said at a March 28 meeting in Kyiv that they do not support Yuliya Tymoshenko’s idea to deny regional energy (oblenerho) companies the right to sell...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Taxpayers and Bureaucrats: Which Does Our Government Appreciate More?
With executive branch staff still to be cut, the government has decided on second thoughts to increase the number of bureaucrats and the fleet of cars. According to a resolution of March 10, the...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Legacy of the Sentinel
People were sitting on steps and standing in the aisles of the hall of the House of Teachers which hosted an evening in memory of Vyacheslav Chornovil. They had honest and lucid faces; they cried...
04.04.2000 - 00:00
Revenge of the Initiative
Many analysts have pointed out that the Constitutional Court ruling on the referendum posed more questions than it answered existing ones. Indeed, the CC virtuosi managed to arrive at a decision...











