№31, (2000)
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Through the Portuguese Window Europe Can Also Be Seen
As he put it, President Leonid Kuchma visited Portugal to learn from its experience in European integration. Without doubt, this is a far from trivial thing, considering that Ukraine seems to be...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
What I Did Not Ask Lobanovsky
A rather unexpected invitation for journalists to attend Valery Lobanovsky’s press conference at the Dynamo Koncha- Zaspa base near Kyiv intrigued many a soccer fan. The Dynamo and national team...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Ukraine’s Tenth Birthday Party: Some Suggestions
When Mykola Zhulynsky, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, traveled to Canada this past July, he shared his government’s vision of how Ukraine might celebrate its first decade of independence.
Its...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Olha Morozova’s one woman show in the L-Art Gallery
“The idea of the unity and harmony of opposed elements has always been present in my painting. Personified by the primordial effects of day and night, these states are equally close to me as an...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Majority Takes Budget Bait
The parliamentary majority, which finally decided on November 1 to vote for the budget in the first reading, kept its word by pretending for the time being that it does not exist. On November 2, the...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
On What Does Independent Bank Supervision Depend?
The presidential decree titled Steps on Strengthening the Banking System of Ukraine speaks about the creation of independent service of banking supervision, and the Cabinet of Ministers is called...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Triumph of Multivectoralism
I must admit my error. Until recently I did not believe a multivector policy was possible. Now I do. We used to have two vectors: Western and Eastern. Indeed, East is East and West is West, never the...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Sociopolis idea rallies hi-tech experts
Ukraine badly needs an essentially new social system, one based on intellect stemming from modern industries and the hi-tech approach. This was the key theme at research-workshop seminar titled...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Progress Almost Invisible
The eighth session of the economic cooperation committee of the Ukrainian-US Commission, also known as the Kuchma-Gore Commission, held in Kyiv on November 2-3, failed to clear up the main problem:...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
SYMBOLIC ATONEMENT
The Thirtieth Molodist (Youth) International Film Festival was marked by unprecedented statistics. In a week and a half, it was attended by 120,000. In fact, impressive figures like this are no...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Shevchenko exponents’ graffiti behind pensioners’ backs
Events accompanying the physical assault on Oles Buzyna and pogrom of Rivne’s newspaper carrying an excerpt from the book, Taras Shevchenko the Werewolf, were certainly not scandalous accidents. They...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Hetman in the eyes of Mykola Kostomarov
In the early 1880s, visitors to Petersburg’s archives and libraries could see the same scene almost every day, an elderly gentleman with a long gray beard sitting in his library chair and absorbed in...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
NDP is raising its political tone
President Leonid Kuchma told a meeting of regional officials and business people in Kharkiv oblast that fresh blood had to be injected, introducing the new head of the oblast state administration, 42...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Sociologist discusses the transition from totalitarianism to civil society
Ukraine could well become stuck in its postcommunist condition, and Russia is threatened by a quasi fascist regime, disregarding human rights and ethnic minorities, and pursuing an expansionist...
07.11.2000 - 00:00
Laundered Money Returning to Ukraine
AP reports that Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ivan Pliushch commended the expansion of cooperation with the Swiss Confederation in the sphere of law enforcement on the withdrawal of illegally acquired money...












