№16, (2000)
23.05.2000 - 00:00
IHOR MANKO: “FAR MORE DEALS ARE MADE IN BAD ENGLISH THAN THROUGH AN INTERPRETER”
Everybody needs foreign languages. In any case, many of us already feel the need to have at least a minimal command of one. And how many are those who, after paying handsome money for cassettes,...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Bursting the Bubble
In the United States over the past 100 years, investments in stocks delivered an average 6% more than safe investments in short-term government securities. This differential has been quite stable...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Triumph of Hopelessness
St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev has won a landslide victory in the mayoral elections in Russia’s second capital: 73% of the electorate cast their votes for him, while his closest rival,...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Dragon of Unfreedom Lives Within Journalists Themselves
Two events closely followed the active Wave of Freedom campaign staged by Lviv journalists.(Within the framework of this action, which was held in Kyiv by the journalists of Lviv’s Ekspres newspaper...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Open Politics Wins a Round
First there was an official report by Interfax-Ukraine: Crimean Minister for the Agro-Industrial Complex Mykola Orlovsky has been released from custody under pledge not to leave town. This was...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Economics 101 Revisited
Those who are wondering why this country has managed to come up with so much bad economic policy for so long would do well to read Prof. Anatoly Halchynsky’s analysis of Ukraine’s “heavily deformed...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
THE LAWS OF CLOSE NEIGHBORS
The image of Crimean Tartars in Ukrainian textbooks and
mass consciousness bears the imprint of the idea of Christian-Islamic confrontation
reinforced by the anti-Tartar invectives of Soviet...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
ANDY WARHOL’S TIN CAN TRUTH
Almost 25 years after the death of Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola), a celebrated as much as extravagant US artist, an exposition of his works was organized at Kyiv’s Modern Art Center, a place...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Romanticism and Realities
“Long live the European federation!” was the leitmotif of the speech Joschka Fischer, German minister of foreign affairs at Berlin’s Humboldt University. Many were, to put it mildly, surprised with...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
But it is also unfair to neutralize the referendum juridically
Verkhovna Rada has received sort of a time-out in the process of legislative confirmation of the referendum results. Having submitted two bills to the Constitutional Court (CC) and still awaiting...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Media-Most Sues FSB, ORT, and Dorenko
Last Wednesday, the Russian newspaper Obshchaya gazeta brought out a special issue, with a press run of 500,000, fully devoted to the media situation in Russia. The issue was motivated by the recent...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Swedish and Finnish Ambassadors Test Tourist Ground in Bukovyna
Three pilot districts, Vyzhnytsia, Storozhynets, and Putyla, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, could receive foreign and domestic tourists this year. The experts believe that ecotourism...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Or how to transform energy debts into political image
Last Saturday, the Cabinet of Ministers intended again to make a decision on reforming the energy market. Moreover, First Vice Premier Yuri Yekhanurov seems to have been appointed to arbitrate an...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Hands-On Mode Is Ukrainian Contribution to Energy Forum
The regional European energy forum called Market Transformations in Power Engineering. Prospects at the Turn of the Third Millennium, organized by the World Energy Council, was opened last Tuesday in...
23.05.2000 - 00:00
Grade School: Personality Factory?
Not so long ago, the Research Tutorial Center Intellect presented its findings on reading and writing to develop critical thinking. The Day has acquainted its readers with the experiment. (see...










