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

№18, (2000)

06.06.2000 - 00:00

Or a Roman Holiday

The Day’s correspondent Klara Gudzyk has received an invitation from the Vatican’s information service to visit the Vatican and take part in the Holy Year festivities devoted to the 2000th...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

Rotation of Symbols

On May 30th, the hammer and sickle symbol of a non-existent state on the Verkhovna Rada building facade gave way to the trident emblem of Ukraine. The decision to remove the Soviet symbols from...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

Whose Civilization?

I recently happened to see a copy of the newspaper Russkaya zhizn (Russian Life). Among the materials dedicated to the 55th anniversary of end of WW II, there was an article titled “Stalingrad...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

Integrating Ukraine in Europe

Premier Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to Brussels left Kyiv feeling optimistic. Subsequent official statements sounded hopeful; some day the doors to the European Union would open to Ukraine, it would...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

LAND TAKES REVENGE

Ukraine was at least eight years late in enacting a new law on agricultural land, believes Anatoly Yurchenko, head of the legal department of the State Land Resources Committee, one of the...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

BEST IN UKRAINE, BEST AT HARVARD

The future of any country depends on the progress of its younger generation. But the youth of Ukraine has much more to think about than the choice between Pepsi and Coca-Cola. It has to decide...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

Is the “Lazarenko Phenomenon” So Phenomenal?

The case of Pavlo Lazarenko, who has been held more than a year in a San Francisco pre-trial jail pending the US authorities’ decision about his extradition to Switzerland, took an unexpected turn...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

or Reflections on Andriyivsky Uzviz

Andriyivsky Uzviz (Kyiv’s premier tourist street) is the best place to seek aesthetic thrills on the annual Days of Kyiv at the end of May. The closer I approached it, the more hawkers I came...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

56 Ukrainian to Leave for Lebanon: $550 a Month, $130,000 to Family in Case of Death

The Southern Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is hastily training specialists to be sent to Lebanon. This is what Yevhen Horbylev, chief draft officer of Zaporizhzhia oblast, told...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

President Kuchma “spanks” Yushchenko’ s Cabinet Virtual Reforms, Real Debts

Few could suppose that the eighth congress of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE), held last week, would subject the reformist Cabinet of Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

Parliamentary By-Elections — a Time To Wheel and Deal

Before the parliamentary elections two years [March 1998], political parties from the right, center and left began to appear like mushrooms after the rain, and the election ballots looked as big...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

Long Delays in the Appointment of Ukraviatsia Manager Became One of the Factors that Caused a Scandal in London Airport

After the national soccer team of Ukraine lost to England on Wembley, our compatriots, who had arrived to see the match, almost came a cropper in a big way last Wednesday. Ukrainian Airlines planes,...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

ROLLER-SKATING TO FEEL HAPPY

Kyiv Day is when you do not just walk in the street but do so loving this street, the houses and trees lining it, and the people walking past. You love them because finally you have the time to...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

MAYOR OLEKSANDR OMELCHENKO: IN FIVE YEARS WE WILL BE IN EUROPE

In any country the capital city is the center of gravity for monetary currents, topnotch specialists, and the latest political trends. The capital on one hand, is a catalyst, and on the other, a...
06.06.2000 - 00:00

The Government Is Only Unanimous In the Absence of S. Tulub and S. Tyhypko

Last Wednesday, addressing the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Fuel- and-Energy Complex, Nuclear Policies and Nuclear Safety, Vice-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko submitted the draft law On Amending...

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