№33, (2002)
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The Presidential Administration believes
An analysis of the monitoring of central and regional mass media conducted the week before last by the Chief Information Policy Office of the Presidential Administration demonstrated that there is no...
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WAR OF THE MILLS
This tale, which could almost qualify as a war or detective story was set in motion by that ill-famed hero of the Ukrainian Clio of the mid-seventeenth century, Prince Jarema Wiszniewiecki. As we...
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Prosecutor General Calls For Third Test of Melnychenko Tapes
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Sviatoslav Piskun has announced that he can convince the American side that Ukraine did not sell Kolchuga early-warning radar systems to Iraq. “It seems to me that I can...
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40 series of medications withdrawn from circulation as fake last year
The placebo effect, much advertised by psychologists, boils down to the ability to cure oneself by just believing in the effectiveness of any substance whatever. Practitioners’ views are somewhat...
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Paying the Piper
After living here for almost ten years, perhaps the thing that amazes me most is how the essentially same things keep happening without anyone ever trying to analyze why. Take, for example, the...
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New Challenges, New Responses
On October 22 Verkhovna Rada debated amendments to the Concept (policy guidelines) of Ukraine’s National Security. The bill was introduced by President Kuchma represented by National Security and...
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Prague Autumn
The NATO summit in Prague, about which so much has been written and spoken in view of its strategic importance to the European and Euro-Atlantic future, is approaching. In less than a month, seven...
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Dumka Choir’s European Tour
The Dumka Choir performed Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia on October 13 at the National Philharmonic Society, as part of the Volodymyr Krainev Welcomes Festival. It was the celebrated choir’s first...
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Return to one’ s native village as a monument
The week before last saw the unveiling of a monument to oblast OUN leader Anany Zakoshtui in the village of Lavriv in Volyn. I had heard about him since I was a little girl. Every time people...
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The Siege and Fall of Chyhyryn in 1678
The years of the Ruin (1650s-1670s) marked a most devastating period in Ukrainian history. The frail shoot of our statehood was supplanted by complete social and political anarchy, morals shred to...
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This week in history
October 29: 1800. The first blast furnace was put into operation at the Luhansk Metallurgic Plant.
1918. Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky issued a hramota message to Ukrainian people marking...
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Reevaluation of Values
The Sixth Meeting of the World Congress of Ukrainian Jurists, held on October 18 in Kyiv, addressed issues of the current condition of the political and legal system of Ukraine and the prospects and...
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Lethal Victory
Yesterday was a day of mourning in Moscow over the victims of the terrorist attack, those who had died of gunshot wounds and those killed by an unknown gas applied by the special forces storming the...
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Macedonian Friend
One can hardly find even one person in Macedonia who doesn’t know about Ukraine, and everybody sees it as a friend. Kyiv supported Skopje with arms supplies during the fight against Albanian...
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or Hunters change modus operandi
Velyky Burluk, a township in Kharkiv oblast, marked its 330th anniversary late last summer. It is the center of a remote administrative district with a friendly and hardworking populace...











