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

№4, (1999)

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Where Will the Foreign Loans Go?

If we get them, of course The government has approved a bill, according to which foreign loans, borrowed by the state directly or under state guarantee, are not to exceed $2.558 billion in...
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Mystery of Subservience 

By Oleksandr KLEKOVKIN Precisely 75 years ago Stalin put on a propagandistic show that our society still copies with only slight variations. On January 27, 1924, at 4 p.m. the whole Soviet...
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PETRIVKA 1999

By Roman BOIKO, The Day     Dear reader, how often are you at the local market? It makes no difference what kind. What do you know about those people, our compatriots, who...
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Jean CHRETIEN:"Economic reformsare of vital importancefor investments" 

By Oleksa PIDLUTSKY, The Day     Last week Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien visited Ukraine. On the eve of the visit he was kind enough to grant an interview to...
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Waiting for Routine

By Olena LEVCHENKO On January 26 the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy hosted the presentation of the collection, Waiting for the Theater: An Anthology of Young Dramaturgy. The new book broaches a range of...
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Russian Senators Discuss Grand Treaty 

By Vitaly PORTNYKOV, The Day The Council of the Federation, Russian Parliament's upper house, did not have time enough to vote on the Grand Treaty with Ukraine during its morning session....
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cul-2 ECONOMY FOR THE WEEK Enduring Friendship in the Name of a Bright Future If a poll had been carried out last week to find out which of the recent political...
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This week in history 

February 2. 1861. Serfdom is abolished in Russia. 1944. The Soviet Army takes Lutsk and Rivne. February 3. 1919. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk...
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Paradoxically, knowledge of history and historical knowledge are not the same. Today's Ukrainian boys and girls know very little, if anything, about all those "founders," especially compared...
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Petrivka

Roman Boiko's article in this issue, "Petrivka 1999," ought to be read not merely as a human interest story but as a microcosm of how Ukraine really works or, more precisely, fails to do so....
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Trust in Ukraine Extended

By Oksana PANCHENKO, The Day Ukraine's membership in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has not been suspended. PACE agreed to grant Ukraine important concessions: the new...
02.02.1999 - 00:00

Ride Your Motorcycle Into the Sky 

By Petro MARUSENKO, The Day     To put it mildly, I did not relate with motorbikes at all. This is why I was somewhat puzzled when listening to the ex-racer, several times...
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Yevhen BYSTRYTSKY:"The Renaissance Foundation supports initiatives, not imitations of them" 

By Diana KLOCHKO, The Day What is by far the greatest contradiction of our post-Soviet reality are the concurrent images of a philosopher and a civil servant in one person. For philosophyis...
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Sicilian Defense

Some thoughts after the Hromada congress  By Tetiana KOROBOVA, The Day What was supposed to happen, has: Hromada has given its leader the nod as a presidential candidate. One...
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Is Official Policy

 A Concentrated Expression of the Shadow Economy? By Iryna KLYMENKO,The Day What associations arise when you hear the words, shadow economy? Obviously different things for different...

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