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

№13, (2004)

06.04.2004 - 00:00

No one has repeated Kharkiv resident Serhiy Bershov’s climb to Mt. Everest

A team of Russian mountain climbers flew to Nepal recently to climb Mt. Everest, but Ukrainians have already been there. The peak has been twice summited by Serhiy Bershov of Kharkiv, who is well...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Macedonia vs. Ukraine — 1:0

After half a year’s work as coach of the Ukrainian national soccer team, Oleh Blokhin has not been able to add a single victory to the team’s assets, although the adversaries in the three friendlies...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Dnipropetrovsk Boys Try Kimono

A Ukrainian-Japanese cultural center, the first in Ukraine, has been opened in Dnipropetrovsk. As the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, Kishiro Amae, said at the...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

On the history of Ukrainian education in Podillia at the turn of the twentieth century

Ukraine’s first national newspaper Rada (Council) is a valuable source to study the history of our national renaissance, especially in the field of education. Its pages tell in great detail about...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

This week in history

April 6. 1654. The Ukrainian embassy received from Muscovite Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich an acknowledgement of the conditions on which the Zaporozhzhian Host gave its consent to a protectorate:...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Kyiv is entering the world market of investment in commercial real estate

This year Ukraine took part for the first time in MIPIM, the largest international real state exhibition held in Cannes. This event annually attracts the world’s leading representatives of the...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Businesspeople prefer to pay for April Fool’s practical jokes to be played on their friends; college/university students have to make do with their own meager resources

Come April Fool’s Day, at least two-thirds of all Ukrainians rack their brains for pulling their friends’ leg, so as to have fun and not to incur their wrath. And it is true that April Fool’s Day is...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

The Ministry of Justice on a European Mission

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine will coordinate the activity of the central executive bodies on adjusting Ukraine’s legislation to the one of the European Union. The ministry ruled at the March 31...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Coca Cola Names Olympic Torch-Bearers

Early last week, the Coca Cola Company announced the results of its Who Inspires You? competition that kicked off on January 27 to select 42 participants of the Olympic torch relay in Kyiv. The...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Yevheniya SOKHATSKA: “I’ve always realized that we must concentrate on the Ukrainian cause.”

Ivan Ohiyenko (1882-1972) is referred to in practically all reference sources as a noted Ukrainian scholar, teacher, ethnographer, cultural and religious figure, an individual possessing encyclopedic...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

What Can the Big Four Do?

Last Friday Kyiv’s National Ukrayina Palace hosted the All-Ukrainian Civil Forum in Support of the Constitutional Reform, a function proposed almost a year ago, on June 25, 2003, by the League of...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Incentive Advance Funding

The International Monetary Fund has approved its annual Standby Program for Ukraine (until March 28, 2005) for $650 million. These funds will be provided only if necessary. After the Extended...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

How the New Army and <I>The Day</I> Looked for and Found One Another

“But I’m not in the army!” — was the first reaction of Olha Chepkyna, a Valky, Kharkiv oblast, secondary school eighth- grader, to the news of her victory. “Still I am eager to join it,” she added....
06.04.2004 - 00:00

He Always Created Music Quietly

A contest for the best composition commemorating Ivan Karabyts was held at the Gliere College of Music in Kyiv, as part of the Shevchenko March Festival in Kyiv. For over thirty years of creative...
06.04.2004 - 00:00

Protest for Export: Take and Reallocate

Our Ukraine’s first actual mass action (previously elaborated upon by block leader Viktor Yushchenko for quite some time) started last Tuesday, near the cabinet building. It was triggered by OU...

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