Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№22, (2000)

05.09.2000 - 00:00

Tarasiuk Knows What Ukraine Needs to Do

“The dynamics of how Ukraine’s European integration course are being carried out do not correspond to the tasks assigned by the President of Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk said after the...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

This week in history

September 5: 1924. Members of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) attempted to assassinate Polish President Stanislaw Wojciechowski. 1990. The International Symposium on Manmade Famine in...
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BOXING: In Search of the Domestic Promoter

In recent years there have finally been some positive developments in the development of sports in Ukraine. The target-oriented program, Physical Education Makes a Healthy Nation, approved by the...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

We Have Only Partly Opened the Window to Independence

In due time, Independence Day might become a true holiday — if not for us, for our children — when we will be proud of our state, the way United States citizens take pride in their country on July 4...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

Kyiv Argument

One can consider that the results of the Second Kyiv Book Market were unsold books. Only those who occasionally dropped in to the National Physical Culture University had a chance to find out that an...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

SLOVAKIA AND UKRAINE: No Reservations

During his one-day visit to Slovakia, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk signed with his Slovak counterpart Pavel Kanis an intergovernmental agreement on additional confidence-building and...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

And the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra Monastery of the Caves

EVENT ONE As the then written sources testify, the summer of 1706 happened to bring on quite a rich harvest in Ukraine, especially on the Left Bank. Russia, or, to be more exact, the then Muscovy...
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Sequestering No Obstacle to Borrowing

Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance is conducting talks with Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) about giving a $300-350 million loan to cover the budget imbalance, Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko announced...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

United Not by Language Alone...

Last week about 6,000 people, mostly pensioners, blocked traffic on Donetsk’s central street. The pickets’ main demands were to slash public utility rates and the price of bread, as well as to grant...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

The Dumka Choir’s International Summer

Immediately after coming back to Kyiv from a foreign tour, our famous collective, the Dumka Cappella, went to the Ukraine Palace to rehearse for the Independence Day gala concert in which they...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

Eichel Likes Ukraine’s Stand

German Minister of Finance Hans Eichel (photo), opened the Ukrainian stand at the EXPO-2000 international exhibition in Hanover together with Premier Viktor Yushchenko. According to the German...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

Investments Wash Ukraine’s Black Earth

According to the State Statistics Committee, foreign investment in the Ukrainian economy reached $420.1 million in the first six months of 2000, a 58.6% increase over the same period of last year....
05.09.2000 - 00:00

Black Square

The television set in my Moscow apartment has turned into Kasimir Malevich’s black square. You don’t have to flip the channels anymore: there’s nothing on the screen anyway. The only joy you get is...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

At least eight Crimean Deputies could face new challenges to their mandates

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Crimea has again summed up the results of elections in the 39th electoral district. Since the local commission confirmed its earlier ruling that the...
05.09.2000 - 00:00

Nina DENYSOVA: “Painting is like preserving nature”

After talking to Nina Denysova, a Kyiv artist whose paintings are occasionally exhibited and rumors about her life cause quite a ripple “in certain circles,” you feel as if you are watching the...

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