№21, (2001)
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Waffen SS Division Galizien Is Far From All of Ukraine
When we considered the allegations against the Ukrainian SS division, we were received with incredible hostility from some sections of the Ukrainian community, including an attack by Professor...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
On Land and Power Again
The top current political priority is to define the future system for electing deputies to the legislatures of Ukraine and the Crimea. Apart from the election law of Ukraine, lawmakers have also...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Journalist was buried in Slovyansk and a newspaper in Kirovohrad
Broadcast journalist Ihor Aleksandrov was buried in the Southern Cemetery in Slovyansk on July 9. Eyewitnesses state that over 5,000 attending the funeral, among them residents, local officials,...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Bohdan Kistiakovski and the modern Ukrainian project
A Ukrainian version of Susan Heuman’s book Kistiakovski: the Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism was recently published.
Now that we have to...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
SDPU(o) Ready to Assign 70,000 Election Observers
The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) has voiced its complete support of “the idea of fair elections.” “The party welcomes any public initiative directed at the realization of this idea,”...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
She has suffered all her life because she does not want to be poor, scorns drunks, and hates loafers
Khyma Ostapchuk lives in the center of Holenyshcheve, a village in Khmelnytsky oblast where the living standard has always remained at the traditional village level. Unlike the rest of the homes,...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Turkmenistan gas will be half of that planned
Neither Russia nor Ukraine will benefit from the VAT that Russia has imposed on imports from Ukraine beginning July 1 “from the standpoint of the political consequences of this decision,” President...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
2002 to be declared year of combating AIDS in Ukraine
“We are proceeding from small steps to global actions.” This phrase was repeated more than once at last Wednesday press conference devoted to participation of the Ukrainian delegation in the special...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Barbie Dolls squeeze traditional puppies out of Ukrainian homes
A conference called Will Domestic Toys Develop? has been held in the capital recently. The issue has become a high-profile one in the wake of both mass closures of Ukrainian toy plants (only five or...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Banking on Failure
The current failure of Bank Ukrayina, like former less spectacular ones, highlights the fact that in Ukraine to bank on something does not at all mean that you can depend on it, as the English idiom...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Ukrainian Guitar with an Italian Accent
The guitar is almost as whimsical as a woman. Now it cries, pouring out its soul in a tremulous voice, vibrates to a strong captivating dancing rhythm, then it melts in a heartfelt romance. The...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Ukraine Exercises Effective State Control over Arms Exports
Ukraine is pursuing a responsible arms trade policy and exercising effective state control over the export of weapons. This announcement was made at a July 10 plenary meeting of the UN Conference on...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Goethe Institute is 50
The festivities started in Berlin by opening the exhibit, Murnau — Manila — Minsk: The Goethe Institute is Fifty. A series of gala concerts will follow.
The Murnau-Manila-Minsk exhibit consists...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
NATO Assistant Secretary General Edgar Buckley confirms the alliance’s open door policy
Ukraine’s nonaligned status and dependence on the eastern vector of its foreign policy have brought about the assumption that we will not join NATO but at the same time do not refuse to cooperate...
17.07.2001 - 00:00
Volcano, Lightning, And Fireworks on One Stage
Concerts by three laureates of most prestigious music contests — Mariya Kim (Ukraine), Ihor Chetuyev (Ukraine-Germany), winner of the Fourth Horowitz Young Pianists Contest and Ninth Rubinstein...











