№36, (2000)
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Young businessman transforms trash dump into menagerie
About ten kilometers from Khmelnytsky, somewhere between the villages of Bohdanivtsi and Kopystyn, ostriches have appeared. Soon the female started to lay eggs, and the male, in accordance with his...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
With the Chornobyl nuclear power plant shut down the West will sleep easier, but the number of problems in Ukraine will not decrease
On December 5 in Verkhovna Rada an international parliamentary hearing on the problem of shutting down the Chornobyl nuclear power plant began (the only unit operative at the moment, the third...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Only still just diplomatic
Iraqi authorities disclosed their intent to open embassies in four former USSR republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, Russia’s NTV channel announced, quoting the France Press Agency...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Vitrenko Sets Date With SBU Chief
The chief of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) Leonid Derkach is to be subpoenaed to attend a court session which will examine an alleged attempt on the life of former presidential candidate Natalia...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Ce La Vie — Or Just Vita
Can we talk heart to heart in the hustle and bustle of city streets? We can, if we are on Andriyivsky uzviz. Everything is unusual here and your heart-to-heart can be wordless, conveyed to an artist’...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Parliament and Government Share Responsibility for 2001 Budget
Verkhovna Rada passed the 2001 budget bill as a whole on December 7, with 249 of the 423 registered lawmakers voting for it. Among the opponents were the Communists and Yabluko. President Leonid...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Pass to WTO: Two Thousand Passwords
Several days ago parliament established a moratorium on Ukraine’s joining international organizations in 2001. But even if such a decision had not been made, the reality of Ukraine to become already...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Dear Readers, Every Day for You!
Volodymyr PANKEYEV, first deputy editor-in-chief:
“I has always been lucky professionally. A samizdat magazine in my final years at the university, the former Postup and Post-Postup immediately...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Who Was St. Augustine?
Having lived here for over seven years now, I often find myself falling prey to the delusion that nothing more can surprise me, at which time something always does. One such occurrence happened at my...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Once More on Strategic Partnership
There has been much talk about strategic partnership and strategic partners lately. It was said, for instance, that all neighboring countries of Ukraine should be its strategic partners, that the...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
The Saudek Border
Jan Saudek’s World is the title of an exposition recently opened at Ukraine House. The Czech photographer is known far outside his country as a master of whimsical composition with a definite touch...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Ukraine and Slovakia: Time for Decisions
Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to Slovakia was quite busy, judging from the range of issues broached; also probably a fruitful one, but this will become clear later. Although Mr....
12.12.2000 - 00:00
France To Help Ukraine With Investment
“France is a world scale investor, and one can especially feel this within the context of the European Union. We are ready to do still more to invest in the Ukrainian economy. But a great deal...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
What will the “reformers” now tell potential investors?
“True, they made us play outside the law,” Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund Chechetov had to admit, commenting on the outcome of the tender selling 68.1% stock of the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum...
12.12.2000 - 00:00
Mantoux Test
A press conference organized by the Ukrainian Journalist Solidarity Association on December 6 presented the book Taras Shevchenko the Werewolf by Oles Buzyna, writer and journalist. His new work had...










