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

№30, (2001)

30.10.2001 - 00:00

“Cleanup” In Parliament Continues

There were nine bills on the Verkhovna Rada agenda last Tuesday, but the Kinakh cabinet withdrew the one preventing and resisting the legalization of laundered money (earlier introduced by the...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Internet Broadcasting Has Begun

On October 23 the Ukrayina.Ru (www.ukraine.ru) Internet publication started broadcasting programs of the leading Ukrainian TV channels (1+1, Inter, UT-1, STB, and ICTV) on its web site, live and at...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Fruitful Utopia of Haute Couture

The first club restaurant opened in Kyiv introducing fruit cuisine, which is popular with fashion circles in both New and Old World, under a telling name Fructopia Fashion Cafe. Halyna Lohvynova...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Nomen est Omen

Nomen est omen, a popular Latin expression courtesy of Plautus’s Persian Man, meaning “the name speaks for itself,” is the motto of Ukraine’s first Premier Palace Hotel. It is a well-chosen one,...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

National Bank Ready For Rendezvous With Euro

As of January 1, 2002, twelve member countries of the European Currency Union, hereafter referred to as ECU, are to switch over to euros, with their national currencies gradually being withdrawn from...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

This week in history

October 30: 1708. Peter I sent a charter to the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks promising not to oppress them and inviting the Zaporozhzhian starshyna (senior officers corps) to the town of Hlukhov to elect a...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Land market and village investment get powerful legislative impetus

On October 25, Verkhovna Rada debated in the second reading the Land Code bill in a more than tense atmosphere. In protest against adoption of this so-called agrarian constitution (apparently aware...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Paris, Texas, Australia, And So Forth

A photo exhibit by Wim Wenders, a German film director who, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog, was one of the principal members of the New German Cinema of the 1970s, held within...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

New election bill is a temporary compromise

What will come of the new elections bill is a crucial issue in many respects. The struggle for a new electoral system (whereby votes are converted into mandates [seats in the parliament]) took place...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Marek ZIOLKOWSKI: The European space must be broader than the EU

In an interview with The Day, Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Marek Ziolkowski did not speak about strategic partnership. On the contrary, he explained that Poland wants to have neighborly relationships...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Undesirable Witnesses

Old-time portraits are said to possess a wonderful ability to fixate the viewer, turning the enchantingly painted eyes in any direction the viewer goes. Svitlana Derenchuk’s characters do also. The...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Combating fake firms is ineffective because the law remains undefined

A meeting of the State Tax Police with several media representatives, The Day included, began on a sensational note: some Ukrainian firm managed to buy a Ruslan jumbo transport aircraft for over $10...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Too Many Tax Laws Destabilize The Economy, Says Mykola Azarov

For the time being, Mykola Azarov, head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, is not going to step down as leader of the Party of the Regions. “It would be absolutely wrong to make demoralizing...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

Legal stock market capitulates

The record index decline (7.22-40.62% a day) of the First Stock Trade System, as the principal formal stock market operated by Ukrainian business, resulted from the plummeting stock price of the...
30.10.2001 - 00:00

An Autumnal Sketch

It was like a thunderstorm, It was like St. John’s night... Then it was quietly asleep and forlorn, And a star fell, shedding glimmering light Pavlo Tychyna, “Sunlit Clarinets” Rustling,...

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