№24, (2002)
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Czech Consulate General to Be Opened in Lviv
Lviv is soon to see the opening of the Consulate of the Czech Republic in Ukraine, Czech Ambassador to Ukraine Karel Stindl announced. Deutsche Welle radio Ukrainian service reports that Mr. Stindl...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
On the Road: France
[Continued from previous issues]
ON THE CHARM OF THE FRENCH FEMMES AND VERSAILLES FOUNTAINS
Suppose we digress a bit from the tourist account. The male (and partially female) part of my Kyiv...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Russia’s Third Capital
Kaliningrad is gradually becoming third capital – after Moscow and, of course, St. Petersburg – of the Russian Federation. On June 16, for example, it hosted a meeting of the Council of Settlers’...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Scion of the Princes Golitsyn Plays Cards
I have known Petro Holitsyn, a fellow with Uzhhorod University, since 1989. He was the first in the Soviet Union to raise playing cards to the official level. Can you imagine? He was the first...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Says NATO Secretary General
Both after the first visit to Kyiv by a delegation of NATO ambassadors taking part in the jubilee Ukraine-NATO Commission’s meeting and in his exclusive interview for The Day NATO Secretary General...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
The twentieth century through the life of Volodymyr OSNOVYCH-MELNYK
With a cup of strong French roast coffee before him on the table and a Marlboro between his fingers, he shoots a penetrating, if somewhat quizzical, glance at his interlocutor. He speaks excellent...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Ukraine’ s Reputation on Trial?
On July 16 a Kyiv district court was to begin the first hearing of the suit filed by relatives of the dead crew of the Tu-154 jet downed by Ukrainian Air Defense over the Black Sea. However, the...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Management Blamed for Miners’ Death
The expert government commission that has been inquiring into the Ukrayina Coal Mine accident in Donetsk oblast has come to the tentative conclusion that the massive death of people was caused by “...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
The Retur n of Bruno Schultz
A local art gallery hosted a display marking the 110th anniversary of the birth of Bruno Schultz, the great Jewish Polish artist and writer. He wrote in Polish and lived in Drohobych, Halychyna....
23.07.2002 - 00:00
NATO Cooperation Plan Approved For the Next Six Months
The State Interdepartmental Commission for Ukraine-NATO Cooperation has approved the plan of basic cooperation between this country and the alliance in the second half of 2002. Interfax-Ukraine...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Two Evils, Bureaucracy and Taxes, Strangle Small Business
“Neither the current state, nor the rate or the trends of development of small business can be regarded as satisfactory,” “this country has created a powerful bureaucratic mechanism to counteract...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Leonid Kuchma feels confident that GUUAM will still show an example
The GUUAM summit in Yalta, ending last weekend, was most closely followed by international organizations, as evidenced by a salutatory message of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the presence of...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Foreigners on Khreshchatyk
Art Club 44 hosted an unusual exhibit under the somewhat provocative title, Germans as Foreigners, dedicated Germans born in the Fatherland but living and working in different countries. Jens...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
Useful Tips from the British Council
This November the British Council in Ukraine will celebrate its tenth anniversary. In these years with the assistance of the Council many Ukrainians have got an opportunity to make a closer...
23.07.2002 - 00:00
David Coulthard’ s visit causes a sensation
Scotsman David Coulthard arrived in Kyiv, following former teammate Mika Hakkinen, to attend the ceremony of opening the fan club West McLaren Mercedes and plant a tree (previously carefully dug up...









