№20, (2001)
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Baseball Bats Against The Right to Know
On the morning of July 2 Ihor Oleksandrov, a journalist of the TOR Television Company in Slovyansk (Donetsk oblast), was severely beaten with baseball bats on his way to work. According to the...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Draft Small Tax Code Makes It Through First Reading
On July 5 Verkhovna Rada approved in its first reading the bill On Changing Some Laws of Ukraine on Tax Issues, the so-called little Tax Code. 238 deputies voted for it, and 96 against out of 406...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Believes Anatoly Zlenko
“The Pope’s visit to Ukraine was an unquestionable success for Ukraine on the world arena,” Minister for Foreign Affairs Anatoly ZLENKO stated on July 3 at a meeting with the media, summing up the...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Prompted by Father and Assisted by Pope
Lviv’s Krushelnytska Opera and Ballet Theater hosted the international premiere of Myroslav Skoryk’s opera, Moses, coinciding with Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ukraine. Of course, the performance was...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Inmates in Ukrainian penitentiaries are tortured, believes Nina Karpachova
According to the newly passed package of laws on the judicial system, in the immediate future all pretrial detention cells and all issues connected with those imprisoned in them will be under the...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
What Will the Prosecutor General Say?
On July 3 Verkhovna Rada supported the inquiry by People’s Deputies Hryhory Omelchenko and Anatoly Yermak to Prosecutor General Mykhailo Potebenko and Security Service head Volodymyr Radchenko. The...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN UKRAINE: THE STORY BEHIND STATISTICS
Much has been said, written, and speculated in recent months about foreign investment in Ukraine — about who is investing and where they invest. Here are some facts: American companies continue to be...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
You’ ll Bring The Whole World With You
Dear Staff,
I began reading your newspaper on the Net about a year and a half ago. I have come to regard your paper as one of, if not the greatest illumination in the secular global press. The...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Bruno Schulz’s Biography, Part of the Holocaust
The scandal following the export from Drohobych to Israel of frescoes of the famous Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz is gaining momentum. The Day ’s stringer Anatoly Vlasiuk reports from...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
This week in history
July 10: 1941. The Battle of Smolensk began, in which the operations of the Soviet troops played an important role in destroying Hitler’s Blitzkrieg plan.
1994. Leonid Kuchma was elected as...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
What will be the main features of the parliamentary election campaign?
Oleksandr DERHACHOV, editor-in-chief, Political Thought:
Ukraine is quickly advancing on its way toward obtaining its own electoral experience. At the same time, the electoral strategies and...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Ukraine Gives Macedonia Friendship And NATO — Peacekeeping
Truce was declared after long talks to determine NATO’s intermediary role in Macedonia. It took effect on Friday night, and NATO Secretary General George Robertson was among the first to greet the...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Those fond of debt privatization will need new ideas
A heavy, perhaps final blow has been dealt shadow privatization in Ukraine. On July 5 Verkhovna Rada almost unanimously passed a bill enforcing a moratorium on compulsory sales of public property to...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
Are Political Campaigns Being Financed With Taxpayer Money?
New interesting facts are beginning to surface linked with the liquidation of the Ukrayina Bank. Verkhovna Rada deputies were slated to debate on July 5 the creation of an ad hoc investigation...
10.07.2001 - 00:00
The way forward to special partnership
Four years ago almost to the day the NATO Heads of State and Government and President Kuchma signed the NATO-Ukraine Charter. How has this Special Partnership gone?
Since independence a decade...








