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, (2001)

19.06.2001 - 00:00

Apropos the technology of forming a Communist-oligarchic majority

The parliamentary majority’s coordinating council decided yesterday to recommend the lawmakers to put on today’s agenda draft resolutions recalling the Verkhovna Rada leadership. Interfax Ukraine...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Chornobyl Syndrome

The third international conference called Clinical Consequences of the Chornobyl Catastrophe: The Conclusions of Fifteen Years of Research has recently drawn to a close. Experts from the CIS, Canada...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Vladimir HOROWITZ: “I never play the same”

He was known and admired throughout the world, yet in his home country the name of Vladimir Horowitz was officially forgotten for several decades. Those who emigrated to the West were treated by the...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Managers to be trained by moderate stress method

Last Thursday the Kiev- Mohyla Academy National University presented a new MBA (Master of Business Administration) syllabus. The syllabus, designed for a six-month training of professionals already...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Cossack Express 2001 held at Yavoriv Test Range

On June 15 the Yavoriv Training Ground saw the beginning of Cossack Express 2001, a joint Ukrainian-British exercise. As The Day was told at the Western Operational Command press center, about 500...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Cyclones and Hail Claim Victims

A squall, sometimes turning into a real tornado, wreaked havoc when it swept across four districts of Zhytomyr oblast on the night of June 11. As Volodymyr Shust, chief expert with the emergencies...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Germans View Film On Wartime Ukraine

On June 15 Germany’s WDR television channel showed a 45 minute documentary about the Ukrainian village of Peremoha (Victory) 50 km. from Kyiv. More than half a century ago an SS unit literally razed...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

We are unable to implement international environmental standards not because we are poor but because we are not used to it

Who has not heard the common opinion that we are too poor to introduce world standards of environmental purity and protection? Suppose the Sevastopol public sewer has burst again? Nothing can be done...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Ukrainian Lady From Brazil

Vira Vovk, a Ukrainian poetess, prose writer, and playwright, was born in Boryslav, Lviv oblast. Fate cast her after the war to faraway Brazil. She has recently come to Ukraine — by no means for the...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Liberty Fettered?

There have been reports that Director of the Ukrainian Section of Radio Liberty Roman Kupchynsky will not be readmitted to Kyiv, perhaps because of the station’s reportage of the cassette scandal....
19.06.2001 - 00:00

The IMF should review its list of victims

At a Washington briefing IMF Director for External Affairs Thomas Douglas announced that in the next few days the fund’s board will approve Ann Krueger as first deputy executive director. She is...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

The Fewer Official Millionaires, The Less Income for Everyone Else

Khmelnytsky Oblast State Tax Administration Chairman Volodymyr Korol told The Day on June 11 that 32 out of 345 enterprises operate at a profit of a million and up. He refrained from giving names,...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Yevhen Konovalets Returns From Oblivion

June 14, 2001 marked the centennial of the birth of Yevhen Konovalets, army colonel of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), military and political figure, as well as head of the Organization of...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

After the invasion of Batu

The first fifty to seventy years after the devastating Tartar- Mongol invasions of southwest Rus’ is an understudied page in our nation’s history. What was Kyiv like after 1240? Serious research...
19.06.2001 - 00:00

Smell of Caspian Oil Reaches Slovakia

Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Slovakia on June 13-14 showed that what was to have occurred long ago is only now beginning: normal, pragmatic relations with our neighbors without all the loud declarations...

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