№30, (1999)
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Oleksandr TKACHENKO: “I am pleased that my opponent is the President himself, and he must also feel good”
“Mr. Tkachenko, in what way does the current executive power intend to convince the people that it should be the one to continue the so-called course of reforms, i.e., to stay in office, when the...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Volodymyr KURATCHENKO: “A different doctor, closer to ... the patient, will now take over...”
“Mr. Kuratchenko, your address to the Cabinet of Ministers more resembled the program of a new premier...”
“I do not think so. The premier is a politician, the head of the executive power. I am...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Zalgiris, Vilnius, 0 — Dynamo, Kyiv, 1
Dynamo Kyiv has speedily overcome the first leg of the Champions League qualification tournament. In principle, no one doubted this, perhaps even in Lithuania itself. However, there are victories and...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
FREEDOM OF LIBEL OR LIBEL OF FREEDOM?
James MACE
Democracy has its limitations. Even freedom, the cult of which is at the heart of democracy as we know it, has its limitations. After all, democracy in the classical sense existed only...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Ukraine Will not Pay its Russian Debts with “Black Jacks”
Ukraine and the U.S. have renewed their framework agreement for another six years, whereby Ukraine will receive technical assistance to destroy the strategic carriers and infrastructure of its 43rd...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
UKRAINE IS LURED INTO THE NUCLEAR TRAP
By Volodymyr SKACHKO
German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder promised to
provide some hard currency for Ukraine as part of the international community's
deal to help close the Chornobyl...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
On Bicycles For a Single Presidential Candidacy
Last Tuesday morning, Sophia Square in downtown Kyiv became the starting place for a bicycle race arranged by the Open Policy All- Ukrainian association. Its participants are going to run a 1000km...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
(“bibliomania” in the eyes of The Day readers)
There was a joke in the 60s. A policeman is looking at the notice “A book is the best gift” and quips aloud: “I've already got this gift.” The reaction of a contemporary of ours (at least a Kyivan)...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
The Guarantor of The Constitution Manipulates Justice
Mr. Holovaty also expressed the opinion that Mr. Kuchma, when he commented on the Vyshhorod District Court canceling the results of the Kyiv mayoral elections (the President said, in particular, that...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Yevhen IMAS: Ukraine to Face Domestic Shortages of Sugar for The First Time in 100 Years
Yevhen Imas's public announcement that Ukraine is experiencing a sugar shortage for the first time in the past 100 years has shocked many people. In response, Ministry of the Agro-Industrial Complex...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
DISMISSED IN A PURELY FAMILY WAY
Yesterday Pr esident of Russia Boris Y eltsin dismissed the Cabinet of Surgey Stepashin. This decision only looks illogical fr om the angle of formal political logic, but it is quite explainable fr...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Steven PIFER: IT WILL BE UNFORTUNATE IF UKRAINE TURNS AWAY FROM THE ROAD OF REFORMS AND DEMOCRATIZATION
“It will be recalled, on the eve of the eighth anniversary
of our independence, that the U.S. political establishment was not too
enthusiastic about the emergence of several new countries at that...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
And shake the dust of vanity off our feet...
However, since the camera began to photograph this world with meticulous indifference, any kind of loftiness seems to have become impossible.
“...For this complies with nature, and what complies...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
This week in history
August 10: 1378. Russian troops commanded by Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich routed the troops of the Golden Horde onto the Vozha river.
1700. Russia and Turkey signed the Constantinople Peace...
30.07.1999 - 00:00
Does the National Bank keep silent or idle?
The exchange rate for actual transactions at the Interbank currency market last Wednesday exceeded the upper limit of the currency corridor announced February 9 (UAH3.4/$1 - UAH4.6/$1). As early as...













