№17, (1999)
12.05.1999 - 00:00
What is the President Not Saying?
By Oleksiy PLOTNYKOV, Doctor of Economics
In the fall of 1997 the current President announced he would run in the
1999 elections if the socioeconomic situation changed for the better....
12.05.1999 - 00:00
Moscow Upset that GUAM Becomes GUUAM
By Vitaly PORTNYKOV, The Day
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov failed to hold back his
irritation over the Washington summit of some former Soviet republics,
where Tashkent joined...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
Road to Sydney Runs through Kharkiv
By Petro MARUSENKO, The Day
A total of 64 athletes took part in the Kyiv Sport Event. Although the
victors, including 5 members of the Kozak (Cossack) Boxing Club, demonstrated
excellent...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
They Push Speaker, but He Balks
Speaker of Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Tkachenko is not going
to run for President. He announced that last Thursday at a press conference
on the results of the visit by a delegation of the National...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
In Our Commercial Time
By Klara GUDZYK, The Day
The mass media more and more often use a hitherto unknown phrase, "the
country's religious market."It sounds utterly blasphemous, for the word
"market" is connected with...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
TENDENCIES
After Elections the Deluge?
Or why risk the last bank
Fortunately, ordinary depositors of the Savings Bank seem to have overlooked
information about top-level bureaucrats planning to pay...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
Chief Executive Opts for Shadow Politics
By Viktor MELNYK, The Day
Vinnytsia journalists were particularly interested in the press conference
of the NDP leader and People's Deputy Anatoly Matviyenko, for his party
is the region's party...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
An Honorable Sixth Place
By Kostiantyn RYLIOV, The Day
Somehow the world seldom hears of our tremendous achievements. They hear
only the biggest events. The first really big one was corruption. Everyone
knows Ukraine is...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
READERS SOUND OFF
WHAT WOULD I CHANGE IN UKRAINE?
LIUBOV RUSALKINA AND HER STUDENTS
IN THE THINK, SPEAK, ACT PROGRAM
"Our children are capable not only of non-standard thinking but of such
deeds as well,"...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
Kosovo as an Intellectual Challenge for Foreign and Ukrainian Politicians
Yevhen MARCHUK
The Kosovo crisis began March 24, but its causes have not yet been revealed
and, hence, cannot be cured.
This is the opinion People's...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
The Danubian Cossacks: From knightly defenders to common mercenaries
By Mykhailo AKSANIUK, The Day
A captured cannon and a few cannonballs from the English frigate Tiger
mount a pedestal in front of the town hall. This is in fact the only old
monument that...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
Oleksandr Moroz Ready to Make Friends with Everybody
By Valery KOSTIUKEVYCH, The Day
"To remove the current ruling regime," said Socialist Party leader Oleksandr
Moroz last Friday in Zhytomyr, "I am ready to cooperate with practically
all...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
This week in history
May 12, 1944: Soviet forces clear the rest of the Crimea of German
forces.
May 12, 1954: Ukraine joins UNESCO and ILO.
May 13, 1865: Ukraine's Novorossiysk University (its third) opens
based...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
Olena ZUBRYLOVA: "What helped me win was not an alignment of the stars"
By Oleksandr HONCHARUK, The Day
FROM THE DAY'S DOSSIER:
Olena Zubrylova was born February 25, 1973, in Shostka, Sumy oblast.
She is 161 cm tall and weighs 62...
12.05.1999 - 00:00
WEEKLY ROUNDUP
All Things Are in Flux
Years and centuries come and go, leaving behind witnesses to outstanding
developments, turning past experience into history. Who would now regard
events dating from World...







