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

№16, (2001)

29.05.2001 - 00:00

“Business Has No Nationality,”Believes AvtoVAZ CEO Vladimir Kadannikov

Vladimir Kadannikov, elected chairman of the ZALK board the week before last, proposed that the work’s former manager Ivan Bastryha be appointed chairman of the board. Yet, he set a number of...
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This week in history

May 29: 1738. An imperial Russian ukase was issued forbidding the Cossacks and peasants of Slobozhanshchyna (the eastern rim of Ukraine never under Poland-Lithuania) to join the Hetmanate and Russia...
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My Students Speak

I was extremely gratified to read the opinions of Kiev-Mohyla Academy students expressed in a poll conducted by this newspaper. Since my courses are compulsory for all political science majors, among...
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IMF personnel crisis mirrors the fund’ s crisis of strategy

Bad news is all the IMF has been getting in the last year. First came a divisive fight over naming a new Managing Director: Germany pushed a little known and unqualified bureaucrat and failed to have...
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Ostarbeiteren Are Promised Money in July

It is highly probable that the German Bundestag will approve as early as next week a bill that will make it possible to start paying compensation to former Ostarbeiteren (wartime slave laborers),...
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Musical Envoy From the Eighteenth Century

The National House of Organ and Chamber Music hosted a concert featuring works by the noted French composer Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). It was organized at the initiative of People’s Artiste of...
29.05.2001 - 00:00

World Bank probes new cabinet’ s credit history

The visit to Kyiv of World Bank Director for Ukraine and Belarus Luca Barbone has ended. He was here to familiarize himself with how Ukraine is meeting the guidelines of the Program Systemic Loan,...
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Humiliation

Kyiv-Warsaw. The man in the street shows a rather abstract attitude toward how those abroad rate the quality of life in his country. Thus, we are not overly concerned about Ukraine being listed among...
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Real Sequester Instead of Real Budget

The Ukrainian cabinet studied the possibility of sequestering budget expenditures in 2001 as per nine months of the current year, Vice Premier Yuri Yekhanurov announced after the cabinet met...
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Project Absolute Center

Judging by everything, a new parliamentary faction might be born. Its creation is being explained by the necessity to regroup forces in the Center, for the Right is said to be too opposition-minded....
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The law enforcers’ catch in the course of an anticorruption campaign turned out mostly deputies of village councils and low ranking officials

Under the program of cooperation between OSCE and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, the first of five international workshop seminars under the general rubric of Anticorruption Investigations...
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The state gives state deeds to private property in land at the village of Yasnozirya on May 22

The land was accurately divided according to the topographic and geodesic maps. The first 24 farmers from the village of Yasnozirya were handed state documents giving the right to private property in...
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Kyiv Opera Star Visits Home Stage

Roman Maiboroda, People’s Artist of Ukraine, soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine, winner of international contests, marked the thirtieth anniversary of his operatic career with a gala concert...
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Tax Vacation for 600,000 Voters

There was a popular saying in the times of stagnation: “What one looks after, one has.” Now it could be paraphrased as, “What one looks after is the object of reforms.” The groups Regions of Ukraine...
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Youth Is Growing Up Faster Than the Country

What topics are the most pressing for Ukrainian students? How do they solve them? How do they feel about the current realities? The Day polled Kiev- Mohyla Academy National University students in...

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