№38, (1999)
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Ukrainians, EU Has Issued Its Order
Everything seems to be back in place. After Kyiv accused (not without reason) the European Union of lacking any integrated policy with regard to Ukraine, after practically all Western European...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
SBU Lifts Blockade of Registry
People's Deputy Inna Bohoslovska filed a petition to open a criminal case against Mykolayiv Alumina Plant General Director Mykola Naboka with law enforcement authorities. To her mind, the actions of...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Five Years of Amateurish Imitation
October 11, was the fifth anniversary of the so-called “course of radical market reforms.” This a very specific date. On the one hand, a traditional rattle in the officious media, on the other hand,...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Between Convulsions and Diversion
Ukraine belongs to a rather small group of big league players on the international arms market. This was achieved, among other things, due to successful fulfillment of a series of tank contracts....
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Says Supreme Court Justice Petro Pylypchuk
Statistics provided by he Supreme Court of Ukraine eloquently testify that the number of the gravest of felonies, murder, has increased in recent years. While in 1993, a total of 2,623 premeditated...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Tie Leaves Ukraine In the Running
Tying the game with Russia's national Saturday, the Ukrainian lads carried out their “minimum program,” placing second in the group, with only the French taking the lead. Jozsef Szabo's team now has...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Changing Image
I remember quite well how the romantic image of democratic Russia started to change before our eyes after August 1991, how its nationwide-elected President found pronouncing words increasingly...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
How will it be paid?
As of September 21, 1999 the debt of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny National Joint Stock Company for Russian natural gas was $999.4 million. This sum includes the inherited debt of 1997 and 1998 along with,...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
PROTECTOR
I, as a television viewer, sometimes have to overcome some defense mechanisms within myself before switching on “Olha Herasymyuk's Versions.” Yet, I try doing so every time. For I consider Olha's...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Ukrainian Military-Industrial Complex in Free Fall
Our conversion was in fact doomed to failure. Although there were programs and efforts to put military-industrial complex (MIC) structures on a peacetime footing, priorities in this matter changed...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
CONTEST: Leonid Kuchma, One for the Road
Five years ago President Leonid Kuchma, taking an oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people, presented them — i.e., us — with the course of his “reforms” which he called, for some reason, “market-...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
POLITICAL FOOTBALL
Soccer has been elevated in Ukraine to the rank of the current President's election campaign. His name sounds so often during televised sports events that you gain an impression that he is one of the...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
Volunteer Volunteers All
Well, it sounded so great, so frank I have to quote it: “In the populated areas of my constituency... a unique experiment was even carried out. And so if one considers populated areas where I met...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
“EAST-WEST” FESTIVAL IN THE PICTURESQUE TOWN OF DEY
Looking up Robert, one will discover that Dey is a small town known only for the local white wine Claret de Dey. The wine really is fine, but Dey's 4,500 residents are proud not of the wine but of...
12.10.1999 - 00:00
This week in history
October 12. 1920. An armistice and preliminary peace terms were signed in Riga between the Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR, on the one hand, and Poland, on the other.
1964. The world's first multi...









