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18.04.2000 - 00:00
Supporting Viktor
US Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s visit to Kyiv was above all a demonstration of support for the government of Viktor Yushchenko, who has at least and at last started real reform. She did the...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church began to be crushed by the Soviets 55 years ago
On the night of April 12, 1945, the Soviet secret police arrested the leadership of the Ukrainian Catholic Church (now Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) in Lviv and Stanislav (current Ivano- Frankivsk...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Parliamentary By-Elections: Familiar Rookies Combat-Ready
Perhaps the epicenter of Ukrainian political activities will soon shift to the regions. Presidential Administration Head Volodymyr Lytvyn, addressing a meeting of regional media representatives,...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Great Britain Likes Ukraine’s Orientation
Recent developments on Ukraine’s foreign policy front show that our state, as if with a wave of a magic wand, has turned from a failing student into a promising one. Foreign delegations come to Kyiv...
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Why is Ukrzaliznytsia so heavily in debt to the budget?
Chronic nonpayment, broad usage of interenterprise settlements, barter, and promissory note patterns have left Ukraine’s railroads without working capital [current assets, to use the parlance],...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
JUSTICE VS. LETHARGIC OPPOSITION
Former Socialist Ivan Chyzh, as was to be expected, is now head of the newly-established Left-centrist party, The Justice All- Ukraine Leftist Association. His deputies are lawmakers Mykola...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Thousand and one horizons open after referendum
The question implementing the referendum results will obviously be the main issue in Ukraine’s social and political life for at least the next several weeks. In view of the Constitutional Court...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Another East-West Step
The International Culture and Art Center hosted the premiere of the film East-West. There is every reason to refer to the event as a significant one, even an unprecedented one. At long last the Oscar...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Twilight of the Academy
Ukrainian science is in dire straits and the research personnel is aging. These are perhaps the two most serious problems facing the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Ukr. abbr., NAN), with the...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
or On Military Parallels from the Life of Strategic Friends
Ukraine and Poland have come out from under the same overcoat, the Warsaw Pact. Now the Polish Army has been donning the NATO uniform for a year, while the Armed Forces of Ukraine are going their own...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Ukraine Slow to Sow
About 2 million hectares, or 50% of the acreage planned for early cereal crops could be sowed behind schedule, said Minister of Agrarian Policy Ivan Kyrylenko. In his view, the failure to plant at...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Journalists On the Barricades of Freedom
On April 13, journalists of the Lviv newspaper Express put up a sandbag barricade on the central square next to Taras Shevchenko monument.
This unusual action called Wave of Freedom was caused by...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Craving for Paper Bulwarks
The battles over approving the Cabinet’s action program pushed into the background the signing of the Cabinet-Parliament agreement on joint responsibility. According to the scenario, it had to be...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
Lifar’s Golden Shoe Presented to Ukrainian Museum
A major event took place in Kyiv’s cultural life when Serge Lifar’s Golden Shoe was presented to the Museum of Historical Treasures in the course of the Fourth International Ballet Festival, Serge...
18.04.2000 - 00:00
PLAINTIVE VOICE OF ONE TAXPAYER
The Ukrainian regional courts, which have earlier passed capital punishment, are to revise the cases and commute the sentences to life imprisonment. On April 13, President Leonid Kuchma issued a...













