№38, (2000)
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Medical Workers and Teachers Prepare New Year Strikes
Ukrainian teachers, organized by trade unions, are ready to hold mass protest actions in early 2001 if the government fails to raise their wages beginning in January, Deputy Chairperson of the...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Children’s Art Academy in Obolon hosts a one-man show by Poltava artist Eduard Tryroh
Eduard Tryroh is a graphic artist, such is his “technical characteristic” or a characteristic of the techniques used in his works.
Bistre, gouache, watercolors, or pastel are almost never applied...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
First Ukrainian Peacemakers Depart for Sierra Leone
On December 18 a transport with the first group of Ukrainian peacemakers departed for Sierra Leone from the port of Zhovtnevy in Mykolayiv oblast. It will also deliver 244 trucks and armored vehicles...
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For the first time this country appears at the most prestigious contemporary art festival, the 49th Biennial, in Venice
The Biennial in Venice is often compared with the Cannes Festival, even with the Olympics. Ukraine has never appeared in this festival’s history of over a century, unlike Poland, the Czech Republic,...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
This week in history
December 26: 1825. Revolutionary Russian and Ukrainian nobles (later referred to as Decembrists) rebelled in an abortive attempt to block the accession of Emperor Nicholas I.
1947. The VKP(b)...
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Odesa’s Oil Bonanza
Despite recent improvements on oil markets, Europe is worried over a hazy future spelling uncertain fuel supplies. The old world is no longer prepared to put up with its dependence for oil on OPEC,...
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Presidents of Ukraine and Poland believe
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski is certain the best way to solve the problem with the oil pipe line Odesa-Brody-Gdansk is to form an international consortium in which Poland is ready to...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Lack of Taste or Intellect?
More than one generation are being raised by the television screen rather than parents, school, or good books. Therefore, television standards are perceived by many (subconsciously, consciously, or...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Dmytro SHKURKO: “A single careless word could call forth certain political problems”
NATO’s KFOR peacemaking force in Kosovo has witnessed an unprecedented occasion, with an officer of a country, never a NATO member, becoming head of its public relations service. The officer is Lt....
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Capricious Heroines Of a Strong Woman
Oksana Stratiychuk (of late known as Berbeka-Stratiychuk) is an artist with a name or, to be more precise, with a style. People visit art exhibits hoping to find her, and she is instantly recognized...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Vitrenko Attempt Suspects Retract their Confessions
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Court is once again in session, going over the case with the explosions in a crowd of voters in Kryvy Rih (October 2, 1999) when seeing off Progressive Socialist leader and...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
EU Frees Ukrainian Textiles
The European Union and Ukraine have agreed to make their respective markets from next year on more open to the textile and garment trade. Under a treaty signed in Brussels during the third meeting of...
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IMF Backs Ukraine
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed last Tuesday the fourth review under the Extended Financing Facility (EFF) for Ukraine. As a result, Ukraine will be able to...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Vasil GRIVNA: “It Is Easier to Divide Two Countries Than Fifteen”
The Ambassador of Slovakia to Ukraine, Vasil Grivna, does not think that the new gas pipeline to be laid across Poland and Slovakia following the agreement between Russia and the West should...
26.12.2000 - 00:00
Mariya STEFIUK: “We should discard all things old and love life again”
The title of star of the National Opera is an honor for any singer. But there are also quite a few stars in the sky. So I would like to assign a different title, sun of the National Opera, to...












