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, (2002)

05.11.2002 - 00:00

Equality for women, remuneration for government officials’ counsel, and positive changes for Ukraine

During the All-Ukrainian Youth Summit, UN Goals for the Millennium, all the journalists played in their minds twenty questions, although they were evidently hard put to find as many differences...
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Japanese Tea With Muscovites at the Ukrainian House

Chanoyu is worshipping beauty in the twilight of humdrum life Sen-no Rikyu There hardly is even one European who, among other standard associations connected with Japan (like samurai,...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

Scholars Demand Decent Funding

On early October 30 virtually every research institute opened to see at least a dozen employees missing from work. With placards in their hands professors and research assistants crowded near the...
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Virgin Steppe Seven Seas Away

People living in the Kherson region joke that, apart from the seas of Azov, Kakhovka, and the Black Sea, they have seas of wheat, sunlight, and hospitality. In fact, this far from exhausts the...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

On the Voters

The Day’s polls are undoubtedly one of the newspaper’s assets. In Soviet times, all of us, fed up with official humdrum, would dart a cursory glance at the front page or even begin reading a...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

Starving What Creates Wealth

The latest mishap at the Vernadsky National Scientific Library, where books were flooded for several hours and the staff was sworn to silence for several days after, had an eerily familiar ring for...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

Ending the Chechen Nightmare

Once again, Russia’s war in Chechnya — which has rumbled murderously on for a decade — has blasted its way onto Moscow’s streets. The horrific death toll among innocent theatergoing Muscovites...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

Kirovohrad became nineteenth city visited by Den/The Day’s photo exhibition

In fact, the New Day: Lights and Shadow photo exhibition started functioning even before its official opening at the Kirovohrad Oblast Museum of the Arts. An hour before the festivities, the oblast...
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Each day claims a toll of twelve work-related deaths

According to the State Committee for Labor Supervision and Protection, 1024 persons were lethally injured at their workplaces in the first nine months of this year, with the total number of injuries...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

A Book on the Desk is not A Toshiba Recorder Under the Couch

Until recently I was sure that the clandestine agencies were really good only at their jobs, like spreading carefully engineered disinformation, following (also openly) certain individuals, planting...
05.11.2002 - 00:00

Oksana Sedliar’s British impressions

“Oksana, you studied in Great Britain on an MA program. And what was your primary higher education?” “I graduated from the Cybernetics Department at Kyiv State University. Lately I’ve been...
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This week in history

November 5: 1920. A convention was signed in Warsaw between representatives of the UNR government and the Russian Political Committee on joint military operations against the Bolsheviks. 1953....
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Moscow Front

It is hard to describe the emotions each of us living in Moscow experienced as the Chechen kamikazes held the hostages at the theater in Dubrovka. Days after the tragedy — have those days really...
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Beauty Saved The Journalist

The Atheist and His Soul — such unusual title was given to a one man show opened in the presence of many representatives of the Dnipropetrovsk creative intelligentsia at the local Students’ Palace...
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While we were collecting books for the burned Skovoroda Library in Poltava oblast, the Vernadsky National Library was flooded in Kyiv

Office No. 1 of the Vernadsky National Library at 62 Volodymyrska Street was flooded by a leaking central heating pipeline on the night of October 21-22. The pipe burst on the seventh floor and...

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