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

№17, (2000)

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HRYVNIA’S SECOND COMING

As historians claim, humanity invented money millennia before Christ. Since then, money has been and will always be ubiquitous. Commodity-money relations in Ukraine develop in a spiral relationship...
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Court Reinstates Oleksandr Horobets As <I>Pravda Ukrainy</I> Editor-in-Chief

The sensation occurred at a court hearing in the case of Oleksandr Horobets, former chief editor of the Pravda Ukrainy, vs. the new management and what the claimant considered his unlawful...
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What Will They Do after Finishing School?

School bells rang for the last time this year last Tuesday also for nine graduates of the Grand Educational Corporation, Ukraine’s most prestigious private institution. Their teachers believe...
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Ukrainian-French Nationalist International

Paradoxical as it is, a paraphrased communist slogan could well become a nationalist one. At least, Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, greeting delegates of the sixth congress of...
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Election Syndrome: Seeking Strategic Packaging

The parliamentary elections are approaching slowly but surely. Some domestic political analysts believe early elections to Verkhovna Rada will remain a real alternative for the next several...
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Slavic Literacy and Culture Day

Who is the author of the Ancient Greek alphabet? Who invented written Phoenician, Hebrew, and Latin? Historians are not likely to establish their names beyond reasonable doubt, ever. Yet most...
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Can a Civilized Market Be Created In One Industry?

The latest developments connected with the attempts by Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko to reform the energy market in order to set up a clear system of power supply and payments (provided the attempts...
30.05.2000 - 00:00

Moral Support for a Dream

Every state is fated — or at least we would like to believe so — to get in the long run a guide: a blind man or a true Moses, but that is another topic. Although the European Union has been...
30.05.2000 - 00:00

Gas International

A long line of Saturdays, each essential for the fuel-and-energy complex, has stretched from April 19, when the Cabinet of Ministers was to decide, in the President’s presence, the destiny of Vice-...
30.05.2000 - 00:00

Serhiy BILOKIN: “Ukrainians still seem not to understand what was done to them”

We all have a recent totalitarian past, except that whether it is really our past remains a big question. The presidential elections showed that many in Ukraine still consider that past their...
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Chinese Example

The European Union and China have signed a trade agreement. This agreement was promptly dubbed historic, for, as was stressed, it opens to China its long-coveted road to the World Trade Organization...
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Vasyl KUIBIDA: “The lack of open regional policy leads to mutual recriminations”

The referendum gave a fresh impetus to debate on the second House in Parliament which, according to the “people’s” initiative, will represent regional interests. Now what is a region in Ukraine?...
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This week in history

May 30: 1876. Tsar Alexander II signed the Ems Ukase banning the publication and import of Ukrainian-language literature and staging theater productions in Ukrainian. 1923. The Ukrainian...
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Loans can be granted only marketable enterprises

An analysis of reform in Ukraine in the 1990s gives every reason to assume that a developed market society is in practice still a thing of the future. The creation of market institutions —...
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RRT Concern Prepares for Stock Emission

“Ukraine could have ten national television channels, rather than three,” Valery Yurchenko, president of RRT Concern, declared addressing a regular meeting of the Ukrainian Media Association’s Press...

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