№35, (1998)
06.10.1998 - 00:00
HEROISM AT ITS PEAK
Every time I venture a trip to the "province" I notice that the thirst
for knowledge, for collecting fresh folk material, the joy I experience
whenever I come across some exotic folkways, are met...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
BUDGET/FINANCE
The Hryvnia is More than
Just Money for Ukraine
Last Friday, The Day's editorial office hosted Viktor Yushchenko,
Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. A few hours before,...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
Spring Of Knowledge Nourished From The West
Ukraine's 30 largest libraries will receive shipments of books in early
October under the Millennium Library Program started by the British Council
in this country. All told, 250 titles...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
Greece Is Prepared to Buy Ukrainian "BISON" - says Greek Ambassador to Ukraine
The Ukrainian media reports that an order for at least 6 warships to
be made in Ukraine for the Greek Navy, worth several million USD, has been
canceled because Turkey did not allow a Zubr (Bison)-...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
RESTORING A CATHEDRAL OR LAUNDERING MONEY?
Last week the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and
Cultural Monuments organized a public discussion of the Dormition Cathedral
reconstruction project to be carried out by the...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
A Hungry Nuclear Plant Operator
Delegates from the Energoatom National Energy Company and a plenum from
the Trade Union of Nuclear Energy Employees decided to postpone their picketing
at the Cabinet of Ministers building and a...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
If Seleznyov had not made his visit, it would have been worth inventing
"A dazzling display of the Russia-Ukraine friendship" Mr. Tkachenko, Chairman
of Verkhovna Rada, called a speech made by Speaker of the Russian State
Duma Gennady Seleznyov in the Ukrainian...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
The Era Of Indifference
What atmosphere will prevail at St. Michael's Cathedral: piety or vanity?
This author would like to thank all clergymen, parishioners and other
Christian laymen for responding so quickly and...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
VOLODYMYR BONDAR:ALL OUR RESERVES ARE IN WESTERN BANKS
For more than two weeks the Ukrainian media cast a bright spotlight on
a misunderstanding with IMF. Over the past several days more has been added
through the grapevine. Remembering that there is...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
MYSTERIOUS CANVASES
Few know that before World War II the art gallery of the Pedagogical
Institute in Nizhyn, a town not far from Kyiv, matched the Western European
collections in the art museums of capital, Odesa,...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
ECONOMY FOR THE WEEK
The first approach to the budget problem last week could hardly rate
as front page stories in economic journals. There were no original solutions
to financial problems and no political...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
INFANT PRODIGY DEBUTS IN IATIONAL TEAM
The World Chess Olympic Games have begun. This event, which always calls
forth much interest, now facing unusual times in chess world chaos, has
a specific attraction. The Chess Olympics is the...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
NEWS IN BRIEF
The West Will Finance Protection
of Civil Rights in Ukraine
Ukrainian Ombudsman Nina Karpachova met with ambassadors from 24 countries
accredited to Ukraine, on OSCE Ambassador Charles...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
CRISIS HITS POCKETS - AND KIDNEYS...
The city ambulance service, habitually under constant pressure, has for
the past several days been in a mad rush. "Previously we had our hands
full of serious body injuries, now we are being...
06.10.1998 - 00:00
TRUKHANIV ISLAND 55 years ago the Nazis erased a small wharf town off the face of the earth
About 40 years ago the surviving residents formed a unique Trukhaniv
Island Community. They have met on the island ever since, every last Sunday
in September.
This "green gem" on the Dnipro is a...










