№4, (1998)
03.03.1998 - 00:00
UKRAINE HAS NO INTENTION TO JOIN NATO, BUT SUPPORTS NEW INTEGRATION INITIATIVES IN CIS, SAYS PRESIDENT KUCHMA
During his February 27 meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian President Kuchma assured him that Ukraine has no plans to join NATO. The same day, President Kuchma and his...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
EX-PRIME MINISTER YEVHEN MARCHUK CRITICIZES CREATION OF AVTOZAZ-DAEWOO JOINT VENTURE
ZAPORIZHZHIA.
Former Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk said on February 25 during his election campaign meeting with the public, the new government regulation restricting used car imports to Ukraine...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
WHERE IS THE NATIONAL GUARD HEADED?
General Oleksandr Chapovsky, recently promoted from Deputy Commander of Rivne Army Corps to Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, is determined to hold the reins in an iron grip.
Despite...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
GOVERNMENT DECLARES WAR ON BARTER Is the list of exceptions ready?
First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Holubchenko declared recently that the government was ready to refuse mutual write-offs against the state budget.
The work group, formed by the Cabinet of...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
CLARIFICATION
In our February 24 issue The Day published a story, "Although the Ministry of Health Warns Tobacco products are the goose that laid the golden egg for the Ukrainian economy."
The item should have...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
UKRAINE HAS THE RIGHT?
The Ukrainian government's decision to limit on used cars imports has caused much stir in the European Union. EU representatives think this decision discriminatory and passed because of pressure from...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
"AIDA" SHACKLED BY ROUTINE More small change from the National Opera mint
Verdi’s "Aida", called by music historians the encyclopedia of Egyptian passion which the composer was commissioned to write by the Egyptian government to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
Hey, the Shrovetide you had!...
...is an old Slavic saying about the festive week before Lent. In Ukraine we say that this is a time where on Monday one absolutely must meet with neighbors, bosses, subordinates, and partners....
03.03.1998 - 00:00
Excise Stamp and Election Bulletin
President Kuchma
has with extraordinary ease solved the dilemma between the need to fill state budget coffers
and no less urgent need to improve his pre-election image,
especially among a group...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RENDERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL SOME PROVISIONS OF ELECTIONS LAW, BUT AGREES TO SUSPEND THEM FOLLOWING MARCH 1998 PARLIAMENTAR ELECTIONS
Ukraine's Constitutional Court rendered at least 10 provisions of the elections law as contradicting the Constitution and suspended some of them, as of February 27. All provisions that contradict the...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
Greater Yalta PONDERS its Free Economic Zone
The complex of the First Investment Bank, reminescent of the famous Crimean palaces, can now be considered the Crimea's representation for Kyiv.
The draft law of Ukraine On the Greater Yalta Free...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
GOVERNMENT TO DOUBLE PRODUCTION OF BEET SUGAR TWOFOLD WITHIN NEXT TWO YEARS
According to the Cabinet of Ministers guidelines to oblast state administrations, production of beet root and sugar is to grow to 30 million and 3.464 million tons, respectively, in 1998, and to 37.5...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
MASTERS FROM MOSCOW
The captains of Russian business visited Kyiv, marking perhaps the most interesting event in the Russian-Ukrainian dialogue of late. Kyiv also played host to the Russian Premier and the Ukrainian...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
"FOLKLORE IS NOT A STANDARD BUT LIVE EMOTIONS," SAYS ART CRITIC NATALIA SHUMADA
At present, we regard folklore in a variety of ways, often attributing to it something expressly rustic, archaic, and of late, conspicuously semiofficial. During Soviet times, folklore was viewed...
03.03.1998 - 00:00
Will law enforcement prevent bloodshed?
The election campaign will soon be entering the home stretch, and more likely than not methods used at that stage will be diverse, to put it mildly. What can we expect? How can we get ready? The Day'...








