№3, (2000)
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Says UN expert
“At this stage, the United Nations is in possession of no evidence that the Ukrainian government has sent any shipments of materiel to the UNITA insurgent movement. But the latter is known to keep...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Taras STETSKIV: “People who try to scare us with referendum remind me of serious uncles who lit a torch and are running around the house with it”
Taras Stetskiv, who has been elected Ukrainian People’s Deputy for the third time despite his young age, is often asked by journalists to comment. He knows how to formulate his opinion and often...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
HEALTHY WATER A PANACEA FOR SOCCER PLAYERS?
Frankly speaking, when the telephone rang at the newspaper’s sporst desk and the person at the other end of the line began to talk about some water because of which Ukraine’s national soccer team had...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Snow Queen’s Realm in Downtown Kyiv
A park of ice sculptures was opened, for the first time in Ukraine’s history, in Kyiv on January 27. The capital’s residents and guests, who will visit Mykhailivska Square in the next few days, will...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Winter, a Saturday Evening, And Rachmaninoff
Classical music and modern classic performance are two notions that stand beyond categories like exotica for instance as the case is with the hit parade. However, to tell the truth: the public that...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
NUMISMATIC MAP OF UKRAINE
The 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire became
a hard, if not fatal, ordeal for finances ruined by the war that had been
going on for over three years. Any kind of coins (gold, silver, or...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Lukashenka Heads Union State
On January 26, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus became head of the High State Council of the Union of Russia and Belarus. First Deputy Premier in the Russian Federation government, Mikhail...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Entrepreneurial Opposition Still Unborn
The new party of industrialists and entrepreneurs will hold its founding congress on February 9, Anatoly Kinakh, chairman of the organizing committee and of the parliamentary committee for industrial...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Journalist’s family adopts 16 children in 10 years
Petro and Nadiya Mayik, a young journalist couple living in the border town of Chop, decided to start a family-type children’s home in 1989. Nadiya started working for the district newspaper Leninske...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
This week in history
February 1: 1924. The government of Great Britain recognized the Soviet Union.
1945. The Kharkiv Tractor Plant launched the serial production of tractors.
February 2: 1868. A music school,...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Amber Is a Portrait Stone
What kind of material can one make portraits from? Practically any. The past few years have also added amber to this long list, to be more exact, the amber mined in Rivne oblast. Portraits made of...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Not Canonicity But Politics Keeps Orthodoxy Split
Ukrainian Orthodoxy has been in the extraordinary condition of schism for so many years. The three Orthodox denominations have taken not a single step toward the establishment of normal diplomatic...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Undying Love for Problems
Everything seemed more or less to have been settled — on the eve of celebrating the New Year and immediately after Ukraine began a determined attempt to normalize its relations with the Council of...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
Kuchma to Putin: “Do Like We Do”
Acting President of Russia Vladimir Putin has been elected new chairman of the council of the Commonwealth heads of states at the CIS summit held last week in the Russian capital. In fact, this...
01.02.2000 - 00:00
PLIUSHCH’S TIME
Last Thursday the parliamentary majority took one more step toward a joint decision on the package election of a new parliamentary leadership. Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Viktor Medvedchuk released...












