№23, (2004)
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Vertically Integrated Oil Companies: A Different Dimension
Last Wednesday the Ukrnafta joint-stock company failed to hold a shareholders’ meeting which was to have decided to float some additional shares: only 0.21% instead of the required 60% showed up....
21.09.2004 - 00:00
A Passion for the Coalition
Prior to the opening of the Verkhovna Rada’s sixth session, most experts and people’s deputies with a penchant for publicity predicted that the parliamentary campaign this fall would be marked by...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Crucial Efforts Needed
Contrary to forecasts, no decline has been registered in Ukrainian-EU trade and economic contacts after the Union’s expansion. At least, this was the optimistic statement made by Deputy Economy and...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
How Many Monuments To the Bard Are There in the World?
Wherever Ukrainians live, they put up monuments to the Bard. Are there any statistics about the number of monuments to Taras Shevchenko? Who sees to it that they are properly maintained? In an...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
10 Million to Receive Higher Pensions
The cabinet passed a resolution Saturday, increasing the minimum pension amount to equal the disabled people’s subsistence level: UAH 284.6. Premier Viktor Yanukovych declared that such pensions woud...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Creating a Space for the Ukrainian Language
The Ukrainian Justice Ministry recently registered a civic organization called the Congress for the Protection of the Ukrainian Language. Its sole aim is to protect the Ukrainian language and promote...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Better Colorful Than Gray
What began as a discussion of The Day’s books with the Crimean students translated into a search for ways to develop Ukrainian studies and form new citizens in the Crimea.
“Welcome to the...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
The Charming Town of Myrhorod
The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, a 60-page-long novelette, concludes Nikolai Gogol’s famous collection Mirgorod (1835). (First printed in the fall of 1834 in...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
To The Hague for Help
The International Court of Justice will resolve the current dispute between Ukraine and Romania over certain Black Sea territories. Bucharest has kept its promise to refer the continental shelf...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
The Pearl of Chernivtsi
Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph, one of Europe’s most progressive monarchs, viewed the state-building idea as a country’s strength and grandeur being asserted through the grandeur of...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Ukraine to Launch Its Own Shuttle
Ukraine is going to build the Clipper, a new-generation, reusable manned spaceship, which will cost an estimated $120 million, reports korrespondent.net, citing Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Foreign...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Ethnic Partner
Canada was the first Western country to recognize Ukraine’s independence. The relationship between Kyiv and Ottawa has always been special, not in the least owing to the fact that one million out of...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Historical Monument or Dump?
There is a place not far from the center of Zhytomyr, which is off limits to tourists. Actually, few residents bother to visit. It is a small street dead-ended by the stone wall of the Catholic...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Viktor Yushchenko Promises to Get Back in Shape
Iryna Herashchenko, Presidential Candidate Viktor Yushchenko’s press secretary, refuted 1+1 Channel’s Epicenter information Sunday that Our Ukraine’s leader was down with microinfarction or...
21.09.2004 - 00:00
Language and Its Message
Modern researchers have concluded that linguistic studies are possible only in conjunction with the world outlook, culture, and nature of a given community as the carrier of language. Ethnic world...












