Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№26, (2000)

03.10.2000 - 00:00

Satan Harnessed For Peaceful Ends

Last Tuesday, a Dnipro joint Ukrainian-Russian carrier rocket was successfully launched in Kazakhstan. The rocket was developed on basis of the SS-18 ICBM, code named Satan in the West due to its...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Diarchy in Slovyansky Bank: Pro and Con

The formation of a provisional administration at the Slovyansky Commercial Bank (representatives of the National Bank of Ukraine regional directors, State Tax Administration, and the regional...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Flashback

Back in 1981 I defended my doctoral dissertation on national Communism in Soviet Ukraine (1918-1933) and could not help but react to the latest attempt by contemporary Ukrainian Communists to gird up...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Debts of Poorest Countries Again Written Off. Verbally

The latest joint meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund held in Prague has again shown that the leading industrialized countries of the world are primarily concerned with their own...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

The last games of the century now pass the torch to the Olympic homeland

The seventeen-episode series known as the Olympics has come to an end. To convey in words all the beauty packed into the opening and closing ceremonies along with the fireworks display in Sydney is...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

September 30 — Babyn Yar Remembrance Day

Last Friday Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Premier Viktor Yushchenko, and Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ivan Pliushch laid flowers in memory of the Kyiv residents and military personnel shot in 1941-43...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

American professor deals with the problems of a Ukrainian preserve

I doubt many of us can easily remember what is depicted on the reverse side of the our humble Ukrainian one hryvnia banknote. It depicts the ruins of Chersonesus, a unique monument of human history...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Estonia Wants to Help Ukraine Join NATO

Estonian Defense Minister Juri LUIK said in Tallinn that his government will support Ukraine and Georgia in their accession to NATO. The Minister said that in drawing up the 2001 action plan in...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

For the first time in five years, Mykolayiv Shipbuilding Plant laid the keel of a ship

Mykolayiv’s Okean Shipbuilding Plant has started building four multipurpose ships designed to carry various types of freight. The Thursday before the last saw the laying of the first section of the...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

New Journalistic Initiative organization founded

In the wake of the Saturday’s action, To Speak Quietly is Forbidden, held on Independence Square (photo) with the purpose of attracting public attention to the disappearance of Heorhy Gongadze, well-...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Croatia Proposes Free Trade to Ukraine

At the beginning of last week Zlatko Tomcic, the speaker of the Croatian Sabor (parliament), arrived in Kyiv at the invitation of Verkhovna Rada. On the last day of his visit, Tomcic met with Kyiv...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Bitter Silver

Undoubtedly, any kind of Olympic award brings joy. But the silver won by the Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler Davyd Soldadze in the 97 kilogram category tasted bitter. Greco-Roman wrestling referees...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Municipal budgets could lose up to 5 billion hryvnias

The privatization process of nonagricultural land in Ukraine is progressing faster and more effectively than in neighboring Russia. This statement was made at the press- conference in Dnipropetrovsk...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Apocalypse on The Beach

A gigantic structure, something like the unfinished Tower of Babel (although all towers of Babel remain unfinished), stands on the picturesque shore of a southern sea. The multistoried conical tower...
03.10.2000 - 00:00

Ukrainian Experts on US Presidential Campaign: Threat of Zone of Indifference

The US presidential campaign ought to receive more media coverage in Ukraine, for its outcome will objective ly produce an impact on this country, political analyst Mykola Tomenko said at the round...

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