№4, (1999)
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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....
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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....
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...
02.02.1999 - 00:00
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...











