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

№12, (2000)

11.04.2000 - 00:00

Ukraine Must Restore Creditors’ Confidence

The World Bank mission headed by Luca Barbone, regional manager for Ukraine and Belarus (left in the photo) has completed its work in Kyiv. Addressing the summary news conference on April 5, Mr....
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Volodymyr Klychko is sure his elder brother will win back the championship

We refused to believe that Vitaly Klychko’s loss to American Chris Byrd was not an April Fools’ Day hoax. Unfortunately what had seemed impossible still happened. In the tenth round, owing to a...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Japan Has Yen for Ukraine

The Japanese Cultural Center officially presented the cultural grant of Yamaha musical instruments for the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society at the Lysenko Hall of Columns in...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

“A Pack of Lies”

Vladimir Kalamanov, the new Russian President Putin’s Ombudsman in Chechnya, looked extremely irritated by UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson’s statements concerning her visit to Russia’...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

How would you assess the statement of Mr. Tolstonohov, general manager of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, that the latter can be shut down only after 2004, not in 2000?

Volodymyr BRONNYKOV, president, Enerhoatom National Joint-Stock Energy Company: “There is a government resolution saying in unambiguous terms that the Chornobyl station is to be shut down in 2000...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Truth Bears Repeating

First of all, I would like to congratulate Natalia Dziubenko, who has been awarded the Oles Honchar State Prize for the best Ukrainian novel of 1999. Her Apostle Andrew has been reviewed in over 30...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Whoever Shows Initiative Can Fold It Up

The American side could determine that Kharkiv oblast is unprepared for investment projects unless the US initiative is met halfway, a news conference was told by Inna Bohoslovska, deputy chairperson...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Will Gas Pass Under Valery Pustovoitenko?

Naftohaz Ukrayiny’s supervisory board held its April 4 meeting in an atmosphere of disguised yet tangible confrontation. Chairman of the Board and Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko assumed the victor’s...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Tax pressure pushes Ukrainian book prices 35-65% over those in Russia

While in other countries publishing is rapidly developing and reforming, Ukraine shows reductions in both the quantitative and qualitative indicators of book printing. The Kharkiv-based Narodna Knyha...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

The Magic World of Marfa TYMCHENKO

The People’s Artist of Ukraine whose one-woman show is underway at the Art Center Gallery in Kyiv, has been awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. Marfa Ksenofontovna Tymchenko is...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

People Are Beginning to Take Inconvenience as a Personal Insult

Liudmyla Ivanivna thinks the Ukrainian government is trying to kill her. She points out her kitchen window to the 16 floor apartment building next door. It is in darkness. The elevator doesn’t...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

A group of such children arrive in the Crimea to receive resort treatment financed by Moscow Mayor

Over 200 Chechen refugee children arrived on board a train from Nizrani to Simferopol last Tuesday. Previously, they had been kept inmates of Ingushetia screening camps. Their accommodation at...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

The Colonel and His Generals

Vladimir Putin with a pilot’s helmet on in the cockpit of an interceptor fighter is soon to become as enduring as that of Boris Yeltsin on a tank. However, the difference between the two Russian...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

American Billiards in Kyiv’s Tampere Movie Theater

This article is not, of course, about the new style Russian film that has made quite a stir but about Russian billiards, the championship of which has recently ended with the triumph of Yaroslav...
11.04.2000 - 00:00

Putin Won’t Trust the Press

All of you will face the destiny of Andrei Babitsky is what a fortune-teller prophesied to journalists at the Central Electoral Commission information center on election night. This soothsayer was...

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