№21, (1999)
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Romania Decides To Improve Trade With Ukraine
By Viktor ZAMYATIN, The Day
Romanian President Emil Constantinescu knows that what must come to the
foreground is trade and economic cooperation. In any case, he said so during
talks with Valery...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Prizes Like Formula 1
Last weekend, Nauka-Sport Ltd. courts hosted its Open Court tournament.
By tradition, bankers, business people, and representatives of the diplomatic
corps took part. Among the tournament players...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Freak of Nature And Human Error Caused Death of 48 Miners
By Lesia KHOMENKO
The conclusions of the expert commission, inquiring into the causes of
the disaster that took place May 24 at the Zasiadko coal mine, were announced
in Donetsk. According to the...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Icons We Know Nothing About
By Hanna SHEREMET, The Day
For a number of years Kyiv Day has been associated primarily with Andriyivsky
uzviz (St. Andrew's Hill) open-air exhibits. At present, this red-letter
day ought to...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Most Children to Spend Summer Vacation at Home
By Nina SOTNYK, The Day
The beginning of this year's vacation season is very passive. The reason,
of course, is universal: a lack of money. "To pay for a more or less decent
vacation with...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
IMF Forked Over, Default Was Averted,But Debt Rose
By Iryna KLYMENKO, The Day
The International Monetary Fund Board of Governors unanimously voted May
27 to grant Ukraine a $181 million loan and a $366 million supplementary
financial aid package...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
American Priorities in Chornobyl
A press conference was held at the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency to discuss
the implementation of the SIP program at the Shelter facility at the Chornobyl
nuclear power station.
A similar topic...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
NEWS IN BRIEF
Dynamo Marches to Victory
The week before last was literally golden for Kyiv Dynamo. The Kyivans
came onto the field to play the Cup of Ukraine final match against Lviv
Karpaty with the...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Lazarenko Now Asked To Run from San Francisco
By Iryna HAVRYLOVA, The Day
On June 2, several labor collectives in Donetsk (though it would be more
logical to expect such news from Dnipropetrovsk) nominated Pavlo Lazarenko
as their candidate...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Andriy Medvediev Captivates Parisians
By Oleksandr HONCHARUK, Petro MRUSENKO, The Day
Kyivan Andriy Medvediev became one of the heroes of Open Tournament in
France. his final game with 29 year-old Andre Agassi will surely go down
in...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
This week in history
June 8, 1668: Petro Doroshenko is elected Hetman of Ukraine.
June 8, 1947: navigation is restored on the Dnipro after opening
the Zaporizhzhia sluice.
June 9, 1847: Tsar Nicholas I confirms...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Tax Administration Hunts Money
The State Tax Administration of Ukraine (STAU) is preparing proposals to
increase budget revenues at the expense of additional taxes on gambling
and advertising, STAU chairman Mykola Azarov...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
WEEKLY ROUNDUP
Between Holidays
The first week of June is time between two red-letter days. Monday still
sees most Ukrainians getting over their Whitsuntide (followed by Journalist's
Day) revels.
Monday was...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
It Took Quite a While in the Rain to Get This Soaked
First we were in shock at so much negative advertising. Then we learned
about Oleksandr Omelchenko's landslide reelection. Millions of fellow citizens
lived through these cataclysms glued to...
08.06.1999 - 00:00
Al Capone on Bankowa Square,
By Tetiana KOROBOVA, The Day
Whoever in the Ukrainian delegation first found a pub called Al Capone
on the Warsaw map in Bankowa Square instantly caused others to feel a strong
association with...






