№24, (2000)
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Gverdtsiteli and Legrand’s Kyiv D ebut
Without doubt the joint concert by the French musical maitre Michel Legrand and Tamara Gverdtsiteli became one of the highlights of the competitive events of the Slovyansky Bazar [Slavic Bazaar]...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
This week in history
September 19, 1670. An anti-feudal peasant and Cossack revolt led by Dzykovsky started in Slobidska Ukraine.
1941. After 72 days of defense the Soviet Army left Kyiv.
September 20, 1919. The...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Telephone Communications in Ukraine at Dead Halt
The number of new telephone subscribers this year will remain unchanged at the 1999 rate of 268,000 numbers, stated Ukrtelekom General Director Stanislav Dovhy at a press- conference in the hamlet of...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
PARLIAMENT VS. GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN A FREE ZONE
First Vice Premier Yuri Yekhanurov, addressing Verkhovna Rada on September 12, said that the central executive bodies had practically completed the first stage of their structural reorganization. “...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Shakhtar (Donetsk) 0, Lazio (Rome) 3
All things eventually come to an end. Donetsk Shakhtar’s victorious march through domestic and foreign soccer fields begun in July has been stopped, and stopped too abruptly. It is perhaps the fault...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
OLIGARCHY DEFICIT
(Continued from page DAY AFTER DAY)
Now we are witnessing only the birth of oligarchy, while candidate oligarchs flex their muscles from time to time. What can prove the existence of these...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
THERE CANNOT BE TWO KINDS OF CHARITY
Our society has never exactly been kind even to representatives of the species Homo Sapiens, nor has it displayed benevolence toward our four-legged friends (and Ukraine has not yet signed the...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Endless Journey to the New Age of Animation
The seventh Krok (Step) International Festival of Animated Films has taken place. For the second time in its decade- long history it has been held in Russia. The route of the festival ship, the...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
CONTROLLING BLACK OIL
Yuliya Tymoshenko has in essence acknowledged the fact that Ukraine’s fuel and energy complex continues to work without any well-defined system and that she will run it in the traditional (far from...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
In 25 years?
The Ministry of the Economy has drawn up in cooperation with a group of scholars, a government program to bring Ukraine’s economy out of the shadows. The program is essentially a memorandum of intent...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
The Olympics and Nationhood
Distinguished British historian E. J. Hobsbaum has written that when growing up in interwar Austria, a country he described as at the time having little in common except that most of its citizens...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Dynamo’s prospects after its 1 to 2 defeat by PSV Eindhoven
You quickly take good things for granted. While three years ago Kyiv Dynamo fans simply hoped for their club to make a good showing in a Champions League match versus the Dutch PSV and were...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Oligarchy Deficit
Do you think I want to write about how scandalously and deftly they are fooling the people? Or that they have amassed not so much and this is pardonable? Or that the demons of power have already...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Without Pathos
I tensely await the moment when our country unveils a new, or should I say next, monument. No, I do not consider myself a pessimist, and I believe that Ukraine does have many talented architects and...
19.09.2000 - 00:00
Video Sculpture in Germany Exhibition opens at the Modern Art Center
Attention! Your ideas about the world of art could turn out to be wrong. Or, in other words, any fact (or, rather, as it is now fashionable to say, artifact) of art is impossible without wrongheaded...














