№37, (2000)
19.12.2000 - 00:00
This week in history
December 19: 1917. A provisional All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Council was established.
1990. The Organization of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine was registered by Ministry of Justice.
December...
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Only the affluent can compete with bureaucrats
“Our polls show that a large number of businesspeople have to give bribes. Unlike a European capitalist society, our businessmen depend so heavily on bureaucrats, they cannot become the upper...
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Through the Tempests Of a Hellish Century
December 12, 2000, marked the 110th birth anniversary of Andriy Melnyk, the longtime leader of one wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). He headed this organization in the most...
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Faces from The Storeroom
Today the Museum of the History of Kyiv is opening an exhibition, the Inextinguishable Light of the Icon, dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ. Among the priceless exhibits (...
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Crimean Tatars Charge They Are Being Subject to Political Trials
Over 300 Crimean Tatars held a public rally in Simferopol on Human Rights Day the Sunday before last. The demonstrators wielded slogans: “There will be no stability in the Crimea unless the Crimean...
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Government begins coal market repartition
On December 15, Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko held another meeting of the government committee in charge of the fuel and energy sector reformat. High on the agenda was the question of “revolutionary...
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Ukraine Wants To Be Associated With European Security
Anatoly Zlenko’s visit to Brussels for a NATO-Ukraine Committee session can be considered a Western debut of him as minister of foreign affairs. The debut seems to be successful: both Mr. Zlenko and...
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Chornobyl Mon Amour
With everything else going on — tales of the headless, hapless journalist and all that — one should not lose sight of what will in historical terms surely be the week’s biggest story, the shutdown of...
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In Search of the River Kayala
(Continued from the previous issue)
Now I suggest you look at a schematic map showing my own hypothesis of the way Ihor led his expedition.
Reaching Izium, fording the Northern Donets, and...
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Ukraine and Italy Fostering Military Cooperation
Italian Minister of Defense Sergio Mattarella on a visit to Kyiv discussed military cooperation with his Ukrainian counterpart Gen. Oleksandr Kuzmuk. The two ministers noted the ever increasing...
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“Reading Your Newspaper, One Can Make Forecasts”
We decided, so to speak, to throw ourselves into the arms of young people and gage their opinion about our newspaper on the eve of our one thousandth issue. Since we have been claiming that our...
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Many in Ukraine still do not know about their right to information
“Things are moving,” ascertained participants of the Eighth All-Ukrainian Right to Information Human Rights Seminar held two weeks ago on the International Human Rights Day. IREX ProMedia and the...
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Myths of Our Government or Government of Myths
Since early childhood, we have been surrounded by myths. There can be no social life without myths, and we learned this maxim only too well in the earlier Soviet period of our life. Then, each...
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Parliament Watches Video
On the morning of December 11 Verkhovna Rada included in its daily agenda the issue of showing the video cassette with testimonial evidence of an individual who identified himself as SBU officer...
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Meritorious Eyes
The conference hall of Ukraine House (Ukrayinsky dim) became a kind of room of mental relaxation, hosting the Native Land Through the Eyes of Realist Artists Exhibition. The collection boasts several...











