№4, (2004)
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Apropos unappetizing aspects of Ukraine’s WTO membership
In a new wave of debate on the consequences of Ukraine’s WTO membership of late the emphasis has been traditionally on how this membership will affect the Ukrainian economy. Analyses, however, are...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Kruty: 86 Years Later
Ukraine’s leaders laid wreaths on the memorial sign to the Heroes of Kruty at Askold’s Grave in Kyiv to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the battle of Kruty. President Leonid Kuchma, Prime...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
When the Thread Does Not Break
There are rare celebrants of jubilees who, instead of receiving presents, give out generous gifts to all around them, for they share nothing but the divine gift of their own talent. Heartfelt...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
More on Bohdan from... Stamps
Kyiv’s General Post Office has hosted a presentation of the postage stamp package Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Insignia and Personal Memorabilia designed by artist Vasyl Vasylenko. The six stamps...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Unique Ukrainian surgeon Petro Fomin does not share the common stereotype that a surgeon’s “golden hands” is the only thing that can save the patient
This happened three years ago at Stafford, where Kyiv surgeon Petro Fomin sojourned at the invitation of his British colleagues. Having learned that he resorts to diaphragmatic access in serious...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Liberia: First Steps of the Ukrainian Contingent
The African country of Liberia, although far away from Ukraine, has finally become close to Ukrainians — not only to the one hundred and sixty one helicopter pilots, who arrived there in mid-January...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
How do they look in the Internet?
It is open secret that every year high technologies enter our daily lives more and more. It seems that it was not so long ago, only lessthan fifty years, when people would visit their neighbor in a...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
In the Ukrainian historical calendar, January 29, 1918, marks the tragedy of Kruty
People my age never heard (and could they have heard) about it when studying at school. They never read young Pavlo Tychyna’s poem Pamyati Trydtsiaty (In Memory of Thirty [Martyrs]) with these lines...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
In Defense of Friends
When this writer was researching the Holodomor in the 1980s, suddenly there were two glimmers of light from the black wall of silence that surrounded the topic in the former Soviet Union. In Moscow,...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Should We Make Arms for Everybody?
Oleksandr HUBENKO, editor-in-chief, Practical Psychology and Social Work magazine:
“The question of whether we should allow our citizens to purchase and bear the arms is complicated and requires...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
The British Give Homes to Zakarpattia Children
Recently the head of the Zakarpattia Oblast State Administration Ivan Rizak met with representative of the Hope and Homes for Children international organization Mark Cook and head of this...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
The President Demands “Real Anti-Corruption Policy”
President Leonid Kuchma said that he intends to demand implementing “harsh and real” anti-corruption policy in Ukraine, reports Interfax Ukraine. “We are facing an especially intense and difficult...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Soccer players, walruses, and amateur ornithologists busy themselves in Kyiv’s Hydro Park
In late January the editors told us to find out what Kyivans busy themselves with on weekends, Kyiv’s Hydro Park resort, the site of our field trip. We were in no mood for the outing, picturing...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
This week in history
February 3. 1940. The Committee of Ukrainian Canadians was created in Winnipeg, Canada.
1997. The Nuclear Pool of Ukraine was registered, a voluntary organization uniting a number of Ukrainian...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Opting for Outdated Technologies?
There are conflicting assessments of the current economic situation. Some authors are bubbling with optimism, taking into account high economic growth rates. Others, pointing at the obvious...









