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

№28, (2001)

16.10.2001 - 00:00

Not often can the Ukrainian public can choose between things that are good, of top quality, and free of charge

Kyiv Music Fest, the twelfth forum of modern academic music, was quite eventful: 35 concerts at various Kyiv audiences, within the tight schedule of ten festival days often confronted the capital’s...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Polish-Ukrainian Collegium for United Education in Europe

The European Collegium of Polish and Ukrainian Universities was opened in Lublin. Presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland and Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine were present at the opening ceremony and...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

While cabinet ponders a concept for state property, the property slips away

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a Concept of State Property Management. According to this document, the financial plans of enterprises are subject to government control and the government will...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Is going on in the securities market

The struggle for power has intensified on the stock market. The bureaucrats are fighting for the power to dictate work standards to market operators. If used right, this brings money and clout. The...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

“We want to remain Germans but live in Ukraine, our second fatherland,” says Volodymyr RENPENING, Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Nationalities Committee

October 12-14 saw the Second Congress of Ukrainian Germans represented by German communities from all this country’s regions. Ukraine’s largest German diaspora lives in the Crimea. The German...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Butterfly Within an American Entourage

The Petrivka area of Kyiv now boasts a new Butterfly Movie Theater, equipped with a modern Dolby Digital Surround EX system. Perhaps it will remind many Ukrainian cinema lovers of Yury Fialka’s...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Yevhen MARCHUK : “It hurts me as a Ukrainian citizen to say this”

On October 12 Ukrainian Security and Defense Council Secretary Yevhen Marchuk said in Sochi, “Relying on the conclusions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine which took part in the work of the Russian...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

With neither problems nor development

On September 30 we marked the All-Ukrainian Day of Librarians. Still popular today for some reason is the perception that libraries, especially small ones in district centers, are being closed one by...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Ukraine Prepares for Surge of Afghan Refugees

President Leonid Kuchma is not excluding the possibility of Ukraine giving humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, yet believes it not expedient. “They can manage without us,” he stated in an October 10...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Is Pax Americana Doomed?

“I don’t like what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.” This phrase perhaps best sums up the classic American credo that is now embraced by virtually all the West’s...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Ukrainian Embassies in Countries Bordering on Afghanistan to Be Evacuated

As the situation at the territory of Afghanistan exacerbates, Ukraine has decided to evacuate the staff of its diplomatic missions from the countries adjacent to this dangerous area, Ukrinform quotes...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

There is a Law, but Mental Patients Have It No Better

The official date, Day of Mental Health, marked in Ukraine the week before last was yet another occasion to raise the issue of the mentally ill, as Kyiv Mental Health statistics point to 2.5% of the...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Yury KHARENKO: “I had a completely different view of the <I>Concerto</I> before September 11”

Myroslav Skoryk’s Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra, dedicated to the original performer, noted violinist Yury Kharenko, turned out a major event at the Fest. Skoryk has long been a favorite of...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Terrorism Has Also Touched Us Such sentiments prevail at the Crimean state aviation enterprise, whose helicopter was shot down in Abkhazia

The Head of the Security Council of the UN presented its condolences to the government of Ukraine and the families of the three Ukrainian citizens, crewmembers of the Mi-8 helicopter, which was...
16.10.2001 - 00:00

Lenin in Winter

The main event for the Ukrainian moviegoers the week before last was, of course, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Taurus, as part of St. Petersburg’s film director’s retrospect show. Even a fleeting glance at...

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