№23, (2000)
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Will Five Ukrainian Odysseus - Imitators be Thrown Overboard?
The five Ukrainian citizens who decided on our Independence Day to cross the English Channel on a homemade boat and asked for asylum in Great Britain are unlikely to get a positive answer from Albion...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Dual Power in Naftohaz: How Long?
Kyiv’s Pechersk district court has upheld the suit of Ihor Didenko, former chairman of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny (Oil...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Tax Policy as a Factor in the Development of Regional Economy
In the message of the President of Ukraine to Verkhovna Rada, “Ukraine, a Step into the Twenty-First Century: Strategy of Economic and Social Development for 2000 — 2004,” it is stressed that...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
MILLENNIUM SUMMIT BRINGS UKRAINIANS GOOD NEWS
There were a host of first-time things at the Millennium Summit. For the first time, a delegation turned back halfway (North Korea). For the first time in the five years Fidel Castro visited the...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
“Historical Patron of Zaporozhzhian Sich”
My heart is beating evenly in chest... Oh Sultan, Caesar, Tsar, King! Your anger will never frighten me, Nor will your graces ever buy me. Whether life or death, heaven or blazing hell, It’s all the...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Visas as Nails in the CIS Coffin
Russia has given three-months’ notice of withdrawing from the Bishkek Agreement on Visa-Free Movement of Citizens within the CIS. This news has, for some reason, triggered a not-so-positive reaction...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Ukraine will not be able to avoid choosing a strategy of state development
The Ukrainian media have begun lately to carry more and more materials on the selection of a state model (Den/The Day, Zerkalo nedeli/Dzerkalo tyzhdnia, Biznes, Kommersant). Similar debates can be...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
State and Media: Each on its Own Wavelength
Last week Ukrainian journalists held an action called Freedom Trek on Europe Square in front of the UNIAN News Agency in order to call again on Verkhovna Rada to amend media-related laws. The...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
SLOW START TO TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
The sixth session of Verkhovna Rada, predicted to make decisions revolutionary for Ukraine, has started off. The beginning looked completely banal and commonplace: Speaker Ivan Pliushch simply told...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
But only if citizens demand it
What price justice? How countries deal with historical violations of human rights is the material of daily politics across Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Look at Rwanda. Look at Chile,...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Credit of Love
What I remember most from the traditional economic forum that took place the week before last in the Polish resort town of Krynica are two debates. One of them, about Russia, was utterly scandalous....
12.09.2000 - 00:00
DAY OF MARCHUK
It is easy to be the Ivan Marchuk of the last year of the century when the national media rush to be the first to write about him in force-majeure and elevated style, when those in power seek to meet...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
This week in history
September 12: 1898. The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was opened.
1996. The Youth Aerospace Education Center was inaugurated in Dnipropetrovsk.
September 13: 1866. Ukraine’s first railroad, from...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
YES TO PREVENTIVE PEACEMAKING
Peacemaking. Prevention of conflicts, including nuclear ones. The necessity of UN involvement in settling conflicts on CIS territory. The overall necessity of UN reinforcement, confirmation of the UN...
12.09.2000 - 00:00
Behave simpler, and the lobbyists will come running
The start of a new political season in parliament and, accordingly, the forthcoming political and economic decisions important for this country’s further development (implementation of the referendum...










