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

№34, (2000)

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REVELATIONS OF GIDON KREMER

The National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine has hosted a concert that had been long impatiently awaited and which became one of the central events of this season. Renowned violinist Gidon Kremer’s...
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Johannes EBERT: “A nation’s culture is not merely fragments of old traditions but the whole contemporary world”

The Goethe Institute has existed in Kyiv for seven years, including over three years under the able guidance of Johannes Ebert. Ukraine is the first country where he is responsible for the...
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Will books, through the power of computers and the Internet, be transformed into boundless “hypertextual structures” in which the reader is also author?

Today, two sorts of books exist: those to be read and those to be consulted. With books-to-be- read, you start on page one, say, where the author tells you a crime has been committed. You follow...
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Ukraine-Turkey: Trust Above All

Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Ahmet Necdet Sezer have met. The two presidents agreed to increase trade turnover between Ukraine and Turkey to $2 billion and decided it necessary to develop...
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Kyiv Stars Take Bronze

The week before last, Baku hosted the second international journalist soccer tournament. The first, held last year in St. Petersburg, saw the Ukraine’s Kyiv Stars finish fifth. This time, the Kyiv...
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Demonstration Diplomacy For Domestic Consumption

On November 24, representatives of Rukh (Kostenko), the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN), the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Fraternity, and Independent Ukraine picketed the Russian Embassy in...
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In S. B. Krymsky’s new book

Over a hundred years ago Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that previously the philosophers had something to say; now they speak about something. This inference has more to do with our times than it did with...
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Facing Past Suffering

On Friday evening an artistic soiree and a day long conference on Saturday were held to mark Ukraine’s greatest tragedy, the Manmade Famine of 1932-33, what Ukrainians call Holodomor, a term...
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HOW FAR DOES THE BUDGET LAG BEHIND THE PEOPLE?

I propose the readers turn their attention to what are in fact the notes I made in the margins of documents I had to work on recently: the draft budget, program of social and economic development for...
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Moscow forms permanent alert army group in the southwestern direction

On November 20 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military command to form and fully deploy two powerful permanent alert army groups in the southwestern and Central Asian directions...
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Ukraine and Latvia Reexamine Common Roots

The Latvia-Ukraine: Friendship Through Centuries exhibition of book illustrations has opened at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. Over 500 exhibits from funds of the Latvian Academic Library...
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Day of Sorrow Marked At German Cemetery

“It is of high importance to at least once a year remind society about those who perished in the war and to honor their memory”, German Ambassador to Ukraine Dietmar St Я demann told The Day. On the...
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Trudova Ukrayina (Labor Ukraine) Proclaims Intent to Take Power

The second, extraordinary, congress of the six-months-old Ukrainian Labor has again confirmed adherence of this party to the “roof-to-floor” building pattern. On the Saturday before last, Trudova...
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Bypass Pipeline Outlines Already Visible

Ukraine has never opposed the construction of an additional gas pipeline bypassing its territory, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said during his visit to Turkey. He also reiterated that “Ukraine...
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17 STEPS TO ECONOMIC CAPTIVITY

The level of economic freedom in Ukraine has dropped sharply in 2000, as evidenced by the Heritage Foundation report carried recently by The Wall Street Journal . The organization’s annual Economic...

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