№23, (2001)
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Cabinet Rolls Dice on Privileges
President Kuchma has banned the government from offering tax breaks to individual economic sectors and entities. In his opinion, this could entail considerable budget problems. “I categorically...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Pentagon to help Kyiv assess defense its capabilities as a nonaligned state
The US and Ukrainian military have at last come to grips with the project discussed during US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to Kyiv last June, when it was announced for the first time...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
<I>Kobzar</I> on CD
Hitherto one could learn about Taras Shevchenko’s work from books, television and radio programs, or museum excursions. Now we can listen to his creations on the Kobzar compact disk, which has been...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Moratorium to the End?
Ukraine is again in line for renewal of the EFF (extended financing facility) program: on September 20 the question will be considered at a session of the IMF Council of Directors. Winding up his...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Activities of yet another mission making money on our horrors has been released
The Evening Express (Aberdeen, Scotland) published an article on the mismanagement of hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations raised for Ukrainian children, by workers of Aberdeen-based Mission...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Only that fraction of Crimean pupils will be able to gain an education in the Ukrainian language
On September 1 all Crimean schoolchildren entered or returned to school. Like the rest of Ukraine, educators there have also switched to a 12-year curriculum, with children starting school at six. On...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Who’s to Blame for Oil and Gas Losses?
The meeting of shareholders of the Ukrainian-British joint venture, the Poltava Gas...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
IMF’S MISSED OPPORTUNITY
Stanley Fischer’s departure as First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF provided an ideal opportunity to re-examine the fund’s Washington Consensus ideology of privatization, liberalization (...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
POLICE BRACE FOR SEPTEMBER 15-16 ACTIVITIES
On September 5 Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister Yury Smyrnov told Interfax-Ukraine that the police is ready to take “tougher measures” against opposition members during September 15-16 activities...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
“I will share my warmth with the eternal bird”
The Tadzio Gallery hosts Valentyna Yevmenenko’s show called I will Share my Warmth With the Eternal Bird just as two years ago at the same gallery. Of course, it is not a mistake. It is the artist’s...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Five Years and Going
Every time Den’/The Day celebrates an anniversary, I like to remember how over five years ago I was given a contract to translate, one with a group of investors called the Ukrainian Press Group, and...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
BITTER SEARCH
According to information recently published by the US State Department, our country is a major supplier of human livestock to the West and Near East. First Deputy Head of the State Committee for...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Foreign investors demand higher electricity rates
The autumnal lowering of temperatures has inspired melancholy in the new owners of privatized oblenerho regional power distribution companies. Entering the crucial stage of preparations for the...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
Coal Mine Explosions Can Be Prevented
A sad piece of news, by no means the first, has come again from Donbas about a disaster that occurred at the Zasiadko Coal Mine, precisely the same mine where Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences...
11.09.2001 - 00:00
The Phenomenon OF ODESA
“The weather favored love-making. The pique waistcoats insisted there had been no August like that since the time of free port transactions.”
(Ilf and Petrov, The Golden Calf)
A phenomenon is...








