№37, (2001)
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This week in history
December 18: 1942. Ukraine’s liberation from the Nazis began with the capture of the village of Pivnivky.
1957. The KPU Central Committee passed a decision on creating a scientific editorial...
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Why victims of family violence are in no hurry to ask for help
For the tenth time the week before last the world public began its campaign, Sixteen Days Without Violence, which traditionally falls on a two-week period between two special dates on the UN calendar...
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Church in a Beer Bottle
“I remember seeing, when a child, a wooden chur ch in a beer bottle.
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Soon valuable animals will be leaving Ukraine forever as furs
To demonstrate their integrity and disregard for the power of money, warriors in Middle Ages raised animal furs, or soft gold, on their spears as a kind of banners. Since people discovered barter,...
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Love
I watched the Russian state television news program with special delight. “Vesti” showed Vladimir Putin and Colin Powell, while the anchor reported that in spite of certain still existing differences...
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And the Rivals Lost Nerve
On December 13 the parliament created a sensation. To be sure, everything is all right with the budget: it was passed in the second reading. The sensation is that parliament members dismissed First...
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Unlike Schroeder, German Experts Not Terribly Satisfied With Ukraine
After Chancellor Schroeder had visited Ukraine, the German press relegated anti-Kuchma publications to the background, giving way, perhaps for the first time since Ukraine was rocked with scandals,...
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Bank Ukrayina: Names Named
Ukrayina Bank was led to a failure by the activities of an “organized criminal group functioning in the banking sphere,” believes Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada ad hoc Committee to Investigating the...
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“Ukraine has only one official language, and that’s that”
This is the bottom line of an SDPU(o) statement, On the adoption of a new law On Languages in Ukraine, signed by faction leader Oleksandr ZINCHENKO. In part, it reads that the standing law On...
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Volodymyr Hryshko Became an American General
Renowned Ukrainian tenor Volodymyr Hryshko has returned from a long journey. In recent years he has spent more time overseas than at home, working by contract with the leading companies of America...
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Modest success in Europe, big losses in the US and Russia
On December 11 in Zaporizhzhia metallurgists discussed in the presence of Serhiy Hryshchenko, deputy state secretary at the Ministry of Industrial Policies, a difficult situation in the wake of...
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PACE Hearing on Ukraine Issue Could Be Deferred Until September
The EC Monitoring Committee has decided to recommend that the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council defer the hearing of the so-called Ukrainian issue until the September PACE session. The...
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Gastronomic Geography
Either the pre-holiday merriment has developed into a pandemic or the magic word charity has taken on a special allure, but the ninth charity bazaar organized in the Sports Palace under the aegis of...
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Church Proletarian Internationalism
Recently the contacts between Moscow Patriarch Aleksiy and the Ukrainian politicians have become more frequent. As we know, a meeting took place in Moscow in late November between the President of...
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Technology Oriented Toward the Future
Ukraine is now facing an extremely acute dilemma: either to marshal all domestic reserves and break through into the group of developed countries or to finally remain in the group of the hopelessly...











