№15, (2002)
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Spring Cleaning in the Chernobyl Church
Life proves that enthusiasm is a feature, the absence or presence of which does not depend on the social systems and slogans relating to certain periods of history. During Soviet times there were...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
The Bolshoi 26 years after
There is no overstating the fact that the Bolshoi performances at the National Opera on April 19 and 20 marked a significant event in the capital’s cultural life. Public excitement was considerable...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Ukrainians Seasick
In 2001 over 36,300 Ukrainians registered in [Ukraine’s] consulates were officially working abroad, including 1,400 those in CIS countries, Minister of Labor and Social Policy Ivan SAKHAN told...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Construction boom in the capital could grow into international scandal
It seems likely that, following a radical building boom on Khreshchatyk and Independence Square, construction in Kyiv is assuming grandiose proportions, giving rise to a peculiar tradition of...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Natalia Hura’s Contrasts
Kyiv is hosting a cycle of Ukrainian Jazz Stars concerts. The project’s key objective is to allow talented Ukrainian musicians to show off their skill. Petro Voltayev, director of the jazz and...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Zherdytsky Not To Be Bartered
Very soon Germany will officially request Ukraine extradite three German citizens — Witaly Gerde, Arthur Fischer and Andrey Kraemer — who committed a bank robbery on April 2 in Uelsen, Germany and...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Government To Take Risks With Action Plan
The government will soon submit to Verkhovna Rada for consideration its draft action plan, Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh told representatives of foreign information agencies. “We would prefer the...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
On Slovyansky Azarov Says The Show Will Go On
Late last week, the Artemivsk District Court of Luhansk passed a sentence on the former managers of the Slovyansky Bank. Its Vice President Borys Feldman was sentenced to nine years with confiscation...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Says Alexander Narodetsky, director of Radio Liberty’ s Kyiv Bureau
Alexander Narodetsky has been a US citizen for a number of years, but his knowledge of Ukraine does not come from textbooks and newspaper stories. He was born in Uzbekistan but spent his childhood in...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Ethnic Minorities Favor Common Information Space
The mass media of ethnic minorities are rather specific. On the one hand, they are necessary simply because everyone is constitutionally entitled to receive information in one’s mother tongue. On the...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Our Heavy Debts
President Leonid Kuchma has instructed the Ministry of Justice to speed up the execution of court orders to seize funds in the accounts of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation. The...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Russia or Europe
Recent statements from the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the clear absurdity of Ukraine’s joining the Russian-dominated Eurasian Economic Community and continuing to hope for Euro-Atlantic...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Rosava case awaits trial
This week the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine will refer to court the case on illegal privatization of the scandalous Bila Tserkva-based Rosava tire plant, Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
Poetry Box
An exhibition of the Japanese contemporary arts and crafts has opened in Kyiv. It is not the first time the Taras Shevchenko National Museum plays host for an exhibition dedicated to Japan: last year...
30.04.2002 - 00:00
From horror stories to criminal negligence. Tertium non datur.
The aggregate material damage caused by the Chornobyl disaster, including generating losses after closing the station, is assessed by experts at $358 billion. It is much harder to assess the damage...













