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

№15, (2000)

15.05.2000 - 00:00

In what language should our productions be sung?

The use of the Ukrainian language in classical music has been debated for years. The latest active attempts by the National Opera of Ukraine to stage new productions in the original language...
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Serhiy TYHYPKO: “There are no eternal wins in politics”

The new government has not staged a revolution in the economy in spite of several months of work. Routine administrative work, if you go by what the insiders say, does not impress, either. Even...
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“Lack of cooperation with the IMF does not prevent us from actively attracting investment”

After socialism collapsed in Europe, the countries previously oriented toward the USSR began to face a most acute problem of modernization in the new virtually monopolar world. A distinctive...
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Implementation: The Devil’s in the Details

Last Friday, Verkhovna Rada discussed submission to the Constitutional Court (CC) of a bill to amend the Constitution in conformity with the results of the April 16 referendum, Interfax-Ukraine...
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Chats about Democracy, or Television Hunt for Secretary of State

Jacques Ellul once said about the modern world the everybody is talking and nobody is listening to anybody in it. These words might as well be an epigraph to the talk show “Dialogues about...
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FAIRY TALE OF WOOD

More than three thousand works, ranging from figures barely the size of a thistle to compositions standing taller than a man, have come out from under the chisel of sculptor Oleksandr Koniayev, a...
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Seven Nannies for Implementation

The following article will hopefully give the reader some idea how the referendum results have been evolving into a political football. (—Ed.) The penchant for May Day rallies is coming back to...
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Washington Forgives Yushchenko But Says: No Reforms, No Loans

The visit of Premier Viktor Yushchenko to the US last week should be called successful at least for the reason that it happened. On the other hand, it also turned out successful because the...
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Bavarians Give Ailing Ukrainian Children Hope for Healthy Life

The joint project over which Bavarian and Ukrainian medicos have been working for two years came to fruition last Thursday, when a chronic hemodialysis division was officially opened in Kyiv’s...
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Future Canadians from Kharkiv

Last year the number of persons leaving Ukraine exceeded the number entering by 44,300. This, as the demographers say, negative migration balance is basically accounted for by the outflow of...
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The Role of Accident In the History of Art

Wednesday evening. 46 Volodymyrska Street. A line of foreign cars at the building entrance. Presentable gentlemen in expensive suits and elegant ladies. The scent of fine perfume. Hip youths...
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SUCH AN UNKNOWN FAMILIAR NEIGHBOR

Who has not heard since childhood about the military gallantry of the Cossacks, the glorious Hetman Bohdan and his trusted lieutenants? Whose memory does not hold the heartfelt lines: “Hey, hey,...
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WE MIGHT HAVE WON IN MOROCCO

Tennis is not as yet so popular in Ukraine as, say, soccer or boxing. But the Davis Cup match between Ukraine and Portugal showed that interest in this elite sport has greatly increased in the...
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This week in history

May 16: 1648. Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky routed the Polish army of Stanislaw Potocki near Zhovti Vody. 1917. The anti-Ukrainian Democratic League of Russian Cultural Figures in Ukraine...
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A 650 and Other Energy Millions Case

Last Wednesday saw a heated discussion within the Ukrainian political- energy elite about the mutual offsets by which the natural gas debts of the Dniproenerho Electricity Company had been settled...

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