№2, (2000)
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Readers Sound Off
THE NEWSPAPER SHOULD WRITE ABOUT SPORTS AS PROFESSIONALLY AS ABOUT POLITICS AND CULTURE
“What do you think is now in the focus of society’s life? What worries the people you deal with?”
“I...
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CIS without Yeltsin?
One question of the last decade has already begun to get on our nerves: How much longer will the CIS exist, and does it exist at all? After the resignation of independent Russia’s first president...
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Taking a Chance on Nine Ball
“If you want to play billiards really well, you must drop your family and work,” renowned American pool player Robert Birn once said. From this angle, the participants in the billiard tournament...
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The Mechanism Has Been Put in Motion, And Public Opinion Now Plays Little Role
On public initiative, a national referendum will take place in Ukraine on April 16, 2000. The Day’s Natalia TROFYMOVA asked Oleksandr STEHNIY, head of the department of sociopolitical studies at the...
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Ukraine prepares to restructure debts — like Pakistan?
Whether we like it or not, any declaration made by the Ukrainian government about serving its Eurobond debt is an exceptionally important signal to the market, showing how the borrower views his...
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With the entrance of Yuliya Tymoshenko the quiet life of Yushchenko’s Cabinet has ended
On January 18 the Interfax- Ukraine news agency reported sensational news: President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma agreed to Viktor Yushchenko’s proposal to introduce a state of emergency in Ukraine’s...
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Ukraine Comes Under Special Financial Attention by USA
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, addressing the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies on January 18 said the Clinton administration plans to focus particular...
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Oleh KRYSA: “The violin is the love of my life”
On December 15 and 18 Kyiv and Lviv hosted the violin concerts by the Krysa family of stars, former Ukrainian musicians now living in the United States. Oleh Krysa — Meritorious Artist of Ukraine,...
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Yushchenko’s Moscow Debut Did Not Solve Debt Problems
After the meeting of Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yushchenko with first deputy head of the Russian government Mikhail Kasianov (who is now de facto running Russia’s government) it became apparent that...
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Trials on Ice OR HOW THE PLEASURES OF THIS LIFE MUST BE FOUGHT FOR
I had long been bracing myself for a feat, which to me was akin to Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Leonov’s first spacewalk. In my case it was stepping out onto a skating rink.
I made my first attempt as...
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Parliament Shapes Up
“America doesn’t have any native criminal class,” said American humorist Will Rogers in the early twentieth century, “except Congress, of course.” I cannot but recall this in connection with the...
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Debt for Russian Gas to Be Assessed within Two Weeks
Last Thursday Russia’s Minister of Fuel and Energy Viktor Kaliuzhny and Gazprom CEO Rem Viakhirev arrived in Kyiv for talks. As Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko announced, the Ukrainian side and...
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Zbruch: River of Unity or Border?
Ten years ago, a human chain linked Kyiv and Lviv, as if confirming again the unity of Ukrainian lands, proclaimed by the Act on the Unification of the Ukrainian People’s (or National) Republic and...
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Eberhard HEYKEN: “Ukraine needs to do very much to grow to the level of EU membership”
Historically, Ukrainian and German destinies have at times been intertwined. Also historically, the Ukrainian political leadership of all Europe knows its German counterpart the best. And yet history...
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Beauty and Grace
An exposition called From Resurrection to Ascension opened at the National Art Museum of Ukraine on January 18, reports The Day’s Lesia GANZHA. This is the second exhibit of a large museum project...











