№31, (2004)
16.11.2004 - 00:00
A Billion for a Label
What would you get if you packed a crate of liquor with a box of highly-protected compliance certificates that cost as much as the alcohol? Would it raise the quality of products slated for sale? The...
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Yushchenko on vote percentage
Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko believes that 12% of the votes were fixed in the first round of the elections. He said this in Kyiv, speaking to regional journalists, Interfax-Ukraine...
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Between Politics and History
“Whoever thinks clearly explains clearly.” It would be good if our scholars, especially historians, political scientists, and philosophers, always remembered this maxim of Arthur Schopenhauer. For...
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Pre-Election Halloween
Dear Editors of The Day, The ongoing controversial election campaign leads one to believe that the atavisms of the Soviet regime prevent the society from making further progress. We are witnessing...
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“Looking Forward To the Future”
Robert Simmons, Deputy Assistant of NATO’s Secretary General for Security, has pointed out that Ukraine is successfully implementing the 2004 Target Plan for Cooperation. Addressing a press...
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People of the White Cane
November 13 is International Day of the Blind. It is common knowledge that the attitude toward people with special needs is the yardstick for measuring a society’s maturity, openness, and democracy....
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Purging Voter Rolls
The countless mistakes that prevented many Ukrainian voters from casting their ballots on October 31 were not in the least part due to the shortcomings of the current presidential election law,...
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The Police and Civilized Voting
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has urged the police, particularly precinct officers, on behalf of the government to do their best to ensure trouble-free voting in the election runoff on...
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What Makes Farmers Creditworthy?
The total amount of bank loans extended to farmers against the collateral of grain warehouse receipts in the agricultural marketing year of September 2003 to September 2004 came to UAH 350 million....
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“The Kyiv Formula”
Last Thursday First Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mykola Azarov announced that the so-called “High-Level Group” would hold a new round of talks on November 19 in Moscow (two days before...
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The Orient in Wood and Metal
Approximately 1,500 visitors explore this exhibit every day. In fact, it was decided to extend the gallery’s hours to accommodate visitors’ needs. The exposition is part of the project Dialogue of...
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A detailed look at the Crimean War
The launch of the exhibit “Crimean War: Ukrainian Heritage,” based on the Sheremetyev family collection, took place at the University Art Gallery at Taras Shevchenko National University. The...
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A Ukrainian Rift
The presidential campaign has actually split Ukraine into two camps, as predicted by international observers and campaign architects operating in this country. The two leading candidates, Viktor...
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Herbst Doest Not Believe in Muscle Flexing
The US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, thinks it would be “barbaric” to have a violent scenario in the presidential runoff in Ukraine. “It is difficult to imagine that the people who are in power...
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Boomerang
Imprisonment deprives a person of a lot more than just freedom. Ukrainian prisons are overcrowded, aggressive, and disease infested. Adequate conditions of incarceration are still a long way off for...










