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

№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...

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