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, (2001)

06.02.2001 - 00:00

Photography Brings France Closer to Ukraine

On January 31 at the French Cultural Center opened an exhibition of the photography of Jean- Georges Goetz amid great public interest. This is hardly surprising, since the main theme of his work is...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Tragedy reveals lack of safety on boat routes

The week before last the Ukrainian Memory of Mercury shipwrecked in the Black Sea. For the last time the vessel was in communication at 5:30 p.m. on January 26. Neither boats nor the coast services...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Music From Rozumovsky’s Collection

Last year proved very successful for Kyiv’s Rozumovsky Collection Salon Ensemble. It is a family group made up of violinists Valery and Oksana Supruniuk with their young son Vadym playing the bassoon...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS

On the eve of a festive date, the tenth anniversary of Ukrainian independence, we try over and over again to spot the sources of our failures in building our state. What is preventing us from...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Formal Peacemaking Vs. Street Opposition

On February 1 UNIAN hosted a press conference on the establishment of Youth in Defense of the Constitution of Ukraine, a coalition of youth organizations which is in fact a restored and extended...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Has ITERA Turned On the Gas?

Ukraine has begun to pay its debt to the Itera International Group of Companies for previously consumed natural gas, Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko said last Tuesday (according to the Ministry for...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Complementing the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with a Ruthenian principality

(Continued from the previous issue) This was in fact the beginning of the Ruin if the latter is to mean the period of struggle for political leadership in Ukraine. Prominent Ukrainian historian,...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

At the Speed of Death

Sunday evening before last in southern Dnipropetrovsk oblast as a result of an automobile accident People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksandr Yemets was mortally injured. According to the official report...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Under the Japanese Camera Lens

On January 30 Hitoshi Honda, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, on behalf of the Japanese government transferred to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine audio...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

The pros and cons of the proportional election system

For various reasons, the ongoing substantive reform of Ukraine’s electoral system deserves public scrutiny. First, the overhaul of the country’s election system, by its nature and consequences,...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Kyiv and Tehran Will Now Cooperate “Concretely”

On February 1 Iranian Foreign Minister Kemal Harrazi flew to Belarus after a two day official visit to Kyiv. He believes the atmosphere of all Iranian- Ukrainian meetings was quite warm, supposedly...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Rates Could Bog Down Electric Company Privatization

On February 1 foreign energy companies bidding for the controlling shares of Ukrainian oblenerho (regional electric) enterprises submitted to the National Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC)...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Entrusting One’s Soul to The Sounds of the Organ

The name of Iryna Kalynovska, soloist of the National House of Organ and Chamber Music, Meritorious Artiste of Ukraine, laureate of the All-Ukrainian Organ Contest, for almost two decades has been...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Fence vs. Tent Town

It is interesting to think whether anybody would have thought of putting up tents in Ukraine as a way of protesting only three months ago. We all knew about rallies, demonstrations, picketing,...
06.02.2001 - 00:00

Ukraine’s capital ends week-long Ave Verdi Opera Festival

On January 27, 1901, the heart of the great Giuseppe Verdi’s heart stopped beating. “He went like a warrior, solemnly and quietly,” wrote a newspapers of the time. The composer was buried in...

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