Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№38, (2001)

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Asymmetries of Information and Economic Policy

This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to George Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley, Michael Spence of Stanford University, and myself for our work on the “asymmetry of...
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Canceling privileges for enterprises having foreign investment made it possible to preserve citizens’ privileges

On December 20 Ukraine’s parliament approved the bill On the State Budget for 2002, providing for revenues of 45.4 billion hryvnias and expenditures of 49.6 billion. The projected deficit is 4.3...
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French First To Commend Ukrainian Translators

For already ten years now the French Embassy in Ukraine has been carrying out its Skovoroda Program to assist publishing. This program provides financial support for Ukrainian publishers, translating...
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President Believes SDPU(o) Had No Hand in Cassette Scandal

President Leonid Kuchma has ruled out any involvement by the SDPU(o) leadership in the plotting of the so-called cassette scandal. The head of state announced this at the December 18 press conference...
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What Does Viktor Medvedchuk’s Dismissal Mean?

December is a month for putting together political blocs. While the construction of more new sculptures and hothouses in Independence Square by Kyiv Mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko and his staff is in...
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Medvedchuk Elected to Head Social Democrats’ Forum

The head of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) Viktor Medvedchuk has been elected the head of the Eastern Europe Forum of Social Democrats. As the SDPU(o) press service informed UNIAN,...
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Valery MATIUKHIN: “Music is an art where you have to perform naked”

Speaking to performers is difficult but very rewarding. On the one hand, you must never lose track of their way of thinking, and, on the other, you gain an insight into the performer’s complex inner...
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Italian minister becomes second to address them to Ukraine

Such short visits of foreign officials to Ukraine seemed to have gone out of fashion, but Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero stayed in Kyiv not a day or even half a day but only four hours last...
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Murderers of Ihor Aleksandrov Remain at Large, Claim Parliamentary Commission Members

This was announced at a December 21 press conference by representatives of the Verkhovna Rada ad hoc investigative committee. People’s Deputies Oleksiy Shekhovtsov and Anatoly Khmeliovy are convinced...
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Magical Realist

The Fund To Promote the Development of the Arts in Ukraine presents a one-man show by Kyiv painter and graphic artist Yury Lutskevych (1934- 2001). The artist got professional training from first...
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Medicine of the future will treat thoughts, not body

It is quite uncommon for speakers at a medical conference to be so unanimous in their views and the medical part of the conference, Sociopolis In Ukraine: Technologies of Practical Construction, was...
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France: Cherchez l’Ukraine?

After the so-called tapegate, France has seen a drastic drop in the number of people who think that Ukraine borders, say, on Libya. It is difficult, of course, to find any deeper knowledge of our...
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Buried in His Brother’s Sarcophagus

In fact unnoticed by the broad public was the return from Kyiv to Volyn’s Nyzkynychi Monastery of the registered sarcophagus, in which were interred the remains of the founder of this house of God...
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Personal Information Needs Protection

“Each person has the right to protection not only of privacy but also of personal information. This is one of the fundamental rights outlined in the European Human Rights Charter,” Waltraut Kotschy,...
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Their Dear Leonid Ilich

From the sublime (genuine or simply imagined) to the ridiculous is but one step. The outstanding leader of the Leninist type, four-times (!) Hero of the Soviet Union, the 18 years of whose rule (1964...

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