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

№32, (2001)

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First Ukrainian Laureate

Along with the national flag, emblem, language, and sovereign territory, almost every European country has its musical symbol embodying the national character, coloration, and people’s talent. In the...
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Citizens to Pay for Energy Reforms

On November 9 Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, reacting to presidential and media criticism and bowing to pressure from the coal miners’ trade union, held a cabinet meeting on the question of coal. The...
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The Bazaar Puts Everything In Its Place

By long habit, all Kyiv residents come to buy books at the Petrivka book market. Mostly they are students and people of all ages trying to gain knowledge in some particular field: from the art of...
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This week in history

November 13: 1708. Russian troops headed by Aleksandr Menshikov captured the town of Baturyn, the hetman’s capital, putting the fortress’s defenders and inhabitants to the sword. 1918. A secret...
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Candy Bar of Contention

This fall’s vacation brought no joy to the pupils of the Volodymyr-Volynsky School for the Deaf. Last month, all their thoughts were riveted to Bedroom No. 1, converted into a storage room for...
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Prosecutor’s office investigates state holding companies’ wrongdoing

President Kuchma signed last Wednesday an order On Urgent Measures to Regularize the Performance of State (National) Joint Stock and Holding Companies. It appears that many of these entities are...
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Mush Masked as History

Long ago and far away, to be specific, in the latter half of the 1970s and the idyllic American university town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a young graduate student set off to write a doctoral...
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Plots on the Moon Leave Public Uninspired

The concert hall of the Ukraine Palace was filled with white smoke on November 1, and the people were like hedgehogs from a once popular animated cartoon feeling their way through the mist to take...
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A Group that Achieved its Goal

On November 9 the Ukrainian Non-Governmental Helsinki Monitoring Group turned 25. Its leader Mykola Rudenko has announced that the main goals, freedom of expression and termination of political...
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Who is Who in Financial Intelligence?

A financial intelligence service has been formed in Russia under President Putin’s decree. Officially known as the Financial Monitoring Committee, it is meant to trace large remittances abroad. If in...
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Disappointment Awaits Budget-Supported Organizations

In all probability, the Cabinet of Ministers will scrap its plans to raise salaries for employees of budget-supported organizations on December 1. In a letter to oblast governors marked for...
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Passions for Archives

The concert billed as Masterpieces from the Collection of the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine at the House of Columns of the National Philharmonic Society turned out to...
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Unconventional Diplomacy With Undiplomatic Results

The visit to the United States by Viktor Yushchenko, former premier and present leader of the Our Ukraine election bloc, brought new surprises. The meetings of the Ukrainian former officeholder with...
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Slovyansky Case Transferred to Lutsk

The Supreme Court of Ukraine (SCU) has passed a judgment about the criminal case opened against former governors of the Slovyansky Bank. According to the ruling handed down by Vasyl Maliarenko, SCU...
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Do Communists Have a Fatherland? The Ukrainian Answer

The destruction of the Kharkiv Borotbist organization, ban on the local party newspaper and arrest of its editor-in-chief made the performance of a temporary Borotbist-Bolshevik agreement impossible...

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