№2, (2004)
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Guarneri’s Cello Returned to Owner... Free of Charge
A Lviv-based ethnic Armenian has been keeping for ten years a violoncello made by the great seventeenth-century Italian master Andrea Guarneri. Now the keeper has returned the cello — at his own will...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Father of Psychological Warfare
Military intellectuals have finally become convinced at the turn of the third millennium that the most effective weapon to fight the enemy is so-called psychological and informational warfare. Yet,...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Conflict between Crimean Tatars and “Cossacks” continues
Interethnic strife has erupted again in the Crimea. Agitation began in several places simultaneously. To thwart violent clashes between the Surozh (Sudak) Cossacks and the Crimean Tatars, the...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Crimea expected to accommodate more foreign tourists
Various agencies at the Crimean Council of Ministers assess the results of the 2003 resort season differently. Crimean Economy Minister Volodymyr Kulish noted at a cabinet meeting in October that “...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Make Your Game, NBU Says to Foreigners, but Not All Agree to Play
It is too early to open foreign bank branches in Ukraine. This is the main idea of the address of Oleksandr Suhoniako, president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB), to people’s deputies of...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Sheptytsky Street for Lviv
In the view of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, this year is special for every Ukrainian, being saturated with various anniversaries connected with the life and death of the two pillars of...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Noble tradition revived by Kyiv people of the arts
It seems that a very interesting form of intellectual leisure is being revived in Kyiv that had been forgotten since almost eighty years ago. The weekend before last all visitors of the DAKH (Roof)...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Prize in the Great Game
The Great Game of the nineteenth century was the struggle between Russia and Great Britain for control of Central Asia. Now, it seems from a survey of Russian experts published in Nezavisimaya gazeta...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Two codes contradict each other
As of January 1, 2004, new Civil and Economic Codes have taken effect in Ukraine, leaving lawyers, economists, and businessmen confused. How should one use two codes of equal legal effect that...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
The government has charted a program to protect the island
Crimean Vice Premier Hennady Babenko told journalists that the interdepartmental Tuzla coast protection commission set up on instructions of Crimean Premier Serhiy Kunitsyn in the heat of the...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
MY ITALY
I will not conceal that this article’s headline is patterned after My Japan, the title of a book by the well-known Russian writer, poet, and artist (his facets are innumerable) Dmitry Prigov. Prigov...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Price of the Exchange Rate
The precipitous decline of the almighty dollar on international markets and a stronger euro call into question the NBU policy of supporting the dollar. As we know, in Ukraine the dollar remains...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
This week in history
January 20. 1661. By royal privilege the Lviv Jesuit College was granted “the status of an academy and title of a university.”
1943. The first issue of the Ukrayinske slovo [Ukrainian word]...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
On how the celebrated Russian ballet troupe solves creative and financial problems
The Year of Russia in Ukraine is over and the finale was marked by a magnificent performance of the Bolshoi’s Swan Lake at Ukraine’s National Opera. Russia’s number one company appeared in Kyiv after...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Ukraine has seen peacekeepers off to Liberia
“You must all come back alive and wealthy,” Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Petro Shuliak said in his farewell speech to the Ukrainian peacekeepers leaving to Liberia...










