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

№14, (2000)

25.04.2000 - 00:00

Lenin, RIP

As an old Sovietologist I could not resist commenting on Maryna Zamyatina’s musings about the central role Lenin (and once upon a time Stalin) played in the moral universe of people being brought up...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Toward the Secrets of Olden Ochakiv

In 1656, Turkish traveler Elvia Celebi arrived in Oziu, known as Ochakiv in the history, an important center of the Ottoman Empire on the Black Sea northern littoral. What caught his eyes were its...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Cabinet of Ministers in the First Quarter: No Revolution

The results of the government’s performance have been summed up since the first days of April. The reason for this “statistically-confirmed” activity is, on the one hand, one hundred days of the...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

This week in history

April 25: 1945. Ukraine joined the UN as a founding member. 1994. The President of Ukraine decreed the establishment of the National Television and Radio Council. April 26: 1986. An accident...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Inconspicuous Ukraine

For French television, the Ukrainian referendum did not exist. Developments in Ukraine do not make front page news in Western papers, except Financial Times , which conscientiously informs its...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Ukrainian Hairdressers Do Not Want To Remain Observers

Every profession has its own elite. The influence of such an elite is especially strong in the fashion industry. For it is actually a relatively narrow circle of experts that decides what kind of...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Pragmatic Russia has finally grown a whole sober head although Putin is shorter than Yeltsin

Vladimir Putin, who had just made a pre-inauguration tour of Europe and hence not yet shed the title acting president (at any rate, the official documents still featured this phrase), said in...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Want to Laugh? Go to the Opera!

On April 15, spectators at the National Opera of Ukraine witnessed the revival of The Secret Marriage, a comic opera by popular Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa. On the Ukrainian stage,...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

thinks Chairman of Foreign Economic Bank Andrei KOSTIN

When a region lacks money, it is better not to take out loans but to attract investment. If this applies to the Crimea, the answer to the question where to channel investments is crystal-clear:...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Speaking Ukrainian Should Be Made Useful

Today we continue our discussion of the language situation in Ukraine by publishing one more viewpoint, which might be conditionally called pragmatism. Really, is it worth it to spend time and...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Sevastopol, a City in Disneyland

If I were a serious man, say, a columnist for the newspaper Krasnaya zvezda (Red Star, published by the Russian Ministry of Defense —Ed.), I would write with special inspiration about the visit...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

PICNIC ON THE CURB

“On April 11, 2000, at 1:27 a.m., in Kyiv, on General Vatutin Avenue (Dnipro District), two cars, a Mercedes-300 and Peugeot-405, collided, resulting in an accident which left four dead. It...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

Helena KENNEDY: “You’ ve got to get things right”

Apart from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Kyiv hosted another ranking British guest in April, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Queen’s Counsel, member of the House of Lords and Chair of the British...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

<I>Romeo and Juliet</I> — New Interpretation of Eternal Subject

The IV International Serge Lifar de la Dance Ballet Festival, which presented the choreography lovers with two wonderful evenings of the feast of the dance, is over now. The gaudy...
25.04.2000 - 00:00

MY LENINIANA

On January 21, 1971, the first (only in our city at that time) television channel again ran the film Lenin in 1918 on the occasion of a new anniversary of the Leader’s death. My mother and the...

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