№2, (1998)
17.02.1998 - 00:00
"NEAR" AND "FAR" NEIGHBORS
Now and then one reads and hears from officials about "near" and "far" abroad which does not make sense, and in Ukrainian, too, it sounds stupid. Another borrowing made thoughtlessly from Moscow's...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
FLEXIBILITY DEFICIT
Ukrainian Stock Exchange
After a long break operators continued securities trading. Although the results equalled zero, a certain progress has been achieved in the field. Stocks of energy...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
A CELEBRATION TO REMEMBER
Prof. James Mace, Consultant to The Day
Having retained all the old Soviet holidays and recognized the traditional religious and national ones, Ukraine leads the world in terms of official...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Congressmen Discussing Terms for $225 Million Grant to Ukraine
When adopting the budget, US Congress may change its scheme for granting $225 million in aid to Ukraine. The Interfax-Ukraine News Agency learned that last week the Ukrainian delegation headed by...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
National Guards Receive New Commander. Why the President Picked a Third Rate General
The Presidential Decree appointed Major General Oleksandr Chapovsky Commander of Ukrainian National Guards, one of the most combat-capable military structures in this country. The Major General's...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Svitlana Medvedeva: "Andriy forbade selling the apartment, where he spent his childhood"
On Sunday in Kyiv a men's tennis match between Ukraine and Denmark in the Davis Cup group one. The singles match between Medvedev and Feterlain lasted four (!) hours. In doubles Medvedev and Poliakov...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Foreign Agents Asked to Do Their Duty
Foreign, especially Russian, agents continue operate in Ukraine, Ivan Bilas, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption and National Front member, is...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
On the Trail of the Ukrainian Yeti
Interplanetary Bigfoot Leaves Tracks in Rivne Oblast?
The size of footprints is amazing: 82 by 26 centimeters. All told, there are 18 footprints, 1.5 meters apart. An interesting detail: the...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Peninsula of Failures
How wonderful was it at the very beginning seven years ago. Phrases like "Being guided by will of..." and "considering citizens rights" resounded from tribunes, at meetings, and even in official...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Prices for Sugar Exports to Rise
The Derzhzovnishinform (National Research Information Center for Monitoring International Commodity Markets) experts anticipate that the price for Ukrainian white sugar exported to Russia will soon...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Elections in the Crimea should not have been blocked
Verkhovna Rada has not been able to override the presidential veto of laws making possible elections in the Crimean Supreme Soviet. Pro-presidential forces in Parliament have successfully blocked...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
Quote of the Day
"Marijuana is quite capable of playing a special role in snow boarding, which involves heightened risk and demands the athlete break through the fear barrier. It artificially removes nervousness and...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT STRUCTURES REQUIRE CIVIL CONTROL
Ukrainian people's deputy Yevhen Marchuk declared in his interview in the newspaper, Kievskie vedomosti, that he thinks that there are twice as many investigating organizations in Ukraine as there...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
IHOR RYMARUK: EVERY VICTORY IN POETRY IS PYRRHIC
He made his debut in the early 1980s with a series of strikingly original collections of verse: High Water (Vysoka voda), During the Snowfall (Uprodovzh snihopadu), and Night Voices (Nichni holosy...
17.02.1998 - 00:00
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HAS A PREMONITION OF CIVIL WAR
By Valery Zaitsev,
The Day
President Leonid Kuchma said at All-Ukrainian entrepreneurs meeting that the possibility of an "open civil conflict" in Ukraine was not ruled out. If you...






