№31, (2003)
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Antimonopoly Committee punishes oil traders
On October 14, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine levied a record fine on Dnipropetrovsk’s Avias and Sentoza Oil: UAH 98.7 million. Both gasoline- trading companies, running 12 and 34 filling...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
From Prague Autumn to Istanbul Spring
Lord George Robertson’s farewell visit to Ukraine in the capacity of NATO Secretary General is a certain sign of the end of the era when the parties were only examining each other’s potential and...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
“It is dangerous to strip the president of all powers and authority”
Germany is one of Europe’s countries where the principle of a parliamentary republic has not only been fully implemented, but is successfully functioning with all the stability and scrupulousness...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Ukrainian Canadian artist’s color and black-and-white dreams
Can one be a citizen of one country and harbor a strong genetic affinity for another one, the land of one’s forefathers, where one’s own history actually began? Oleksandr Vlasenko is and does just...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Feedback
The gallery of the Arts Promotion Foundation hosts an exhibition of works by Kateryna Hutnikova and Yuliya Maistrenko-Vakulenko, Kyiv’s two young graphic artists. Titled “The World Is a Space Given...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Budget Risks
Next year will be extremely difficult for the budgetary process, opines Vadym Pishcheyko, chief of the Macroeconomic Forecasts Department at the Ministry of the Economy, during the public hearings on...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Adequate funding and laws are lacking
Contrary to expectations, the All-Ukrainian Congress of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, held the week before last, passed in a surprisingly calm manner. Notably, everybody expected...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Some Sow Corruption, Others Reap the Consequences
The village of Kindeika is located on the outskirts of Kherson. There is only one store, and many older people who have to trudge there to buy bread. With this in view, Serhiy and Natalia Boiko...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Ukraine might help Malaysia launch its satellite
“We are well aware of Ukraine’s capabilities, especially in the sphere of providing services relating to orbiting satellites. Thus we are very interested in making arrangements with your country for...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Golden Lion on Stilts
Until the last day it was a tossup whether the festival will take place or not, with the organizers complaining about a lack of funds. In spite of this almost insurmountable obstacle, Lviv streets...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
A Newly-Found Page in the Bard’s Works
It now seems difficult to tell something new connected with the name of Taras Shevchenko. But in his lifetime the Bard met a great number of people, including not only representatives of the nation’s...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
SES: Sooner No
“There could be two factors here. The root cause is in the wording of the question, not in the date of the poll. While the survey conducted in the summer contained questions about attitudes toward...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
We Don’t Mind Learning Good Things from Strangers
The Editors received a letter from Anatoly Bebelo, a docent at the Kyiv National Economic University, containing a rather critical assessment of one of the publications by our author and consultant...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Intellectual Europe on Ukrainian Genocide
Vicenza, with its Renaissance atmosphere and European courtliness, was the ideal setting for discussing such a sensitive and painful topic as the Holodomor, and on October 16-18 the Onlus Institute...
21.10.2003 - 00:00
Why experts should not hurry and politicians not relax
On hearing recently the forecast of a poll bureau chief that Viktor Yanukovych is able to win in the first round of the presidential elections (with his current rating being 10%), I recalled a very...












