№12, (2004)
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Before Istanbul
“Ukraine is prepared to enter a new qualitative phase in its cooperation with NATO,” Deputy Foreign Minister Oleh Shamshur said on March 23. The Istanbul summit is scheduled for April, yet Kyiv is...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Personalities and Principles: Poland Proposes Common Societal Space
Those who conceived the idea of holding a Year of Poland in Ukraine at a time when the former is joining the European Union and the latter is in the grip of an election campaign, have in fact sent...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
65th anniversary of the heroic defense of Zakarpattia from fascist aggressors
As you know, after World War I Zakarpattia, an ancient Ukrainian region that had been under Hungary for almost a thousand years — Ed.), was ceded under the 1919 Peace Treaty of Saint-Germain to the...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Full Information on the Given Theme is Absent
On March 23 the opposition Internet newspaper Ukrayinska pravda published a fascinating collection of temnyky, the “theme the day” bulletins circulated by the Presidential Administration to the...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Will there be Ukrainian operas on the nation’s stage?
Old productions are falling in decay, their titles disappearing from billboards, and few new ones appear. Contemporary compositions could put on record as rarities. A number of scores are shelved...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Yevhen MARCHUK: “The reform of the Armed Forces reminds me of... the creation of the SBU”
March 25 was the twelfth anniversary of the creation of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In recent years the Security Service, a vital institution in any state, has repeatedly stirred...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Banning the Purchase and Sale of Land Would Mean Holding Back Land Reform
“What is your stand on the decision to extend the ban for selling land, issued by the parliament?”
“Obviously, this means radically holding back the land reform with all the ensuing consequences...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Botanical Garden staff has every reason for this feeling
Vasyl Kapustian is Director of the Botanical Garden in downtown Kyiv (named for Academician Fomin and popularly known as the Old Garden). His surname literally means Cabbage Grower. Without digging...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
This week in history
March 30. 1921. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On Renaming the Central Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) as the All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission to...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Jazz Review
Kyiv Operetta has hosted the Third Yednist (Unity) International Jazz Festival commemorating noted musician Volodymyr Symonenko. It is a large, stable, life-asserting project rallying jazzmen from ex...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Will We Have Time to Pay our Debts to Them?
Polls show that people living in the post-Soviet states in the late twentieth century feared most the death of their near and dear, famine, and riots. In the early 21st century, it is poverty,...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
On the eve of the elections it is crucial who will run the State Treasury
Public finances is the art of passing moneyfrom one hand to another until it vanishes Robert SARNOFF, RCA president
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) opposes combining national and local budget...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
What have we actually offered the older generation during the years of independence? What should we do for them today?
Natalia KHARCHENKO, schoolteacher, Odesa:
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, there is a feeling of constant guilt before my parents and their generation; I feel guilty that with my pay I can...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Yelizarov Apparatus As a Stimulus for Creativity
Every collection by Lviv-based designer Oksana Karavanska is like materialized Hutsul music, myths, and legends. However, Oksana finds inspiration not only in the Carpathians, but also the Balkans,...
30.03.2004 - 00:00
Parliament a step away from the political reform
Last Thursday Verkhovna Rada at last managed to pass the law on the proportional representation elections of people’s deputies. This occurred half an hour before midnight because it had taken twelve...













