№40, (1998)
10.11.1998 - 00:00
WILL THE PRESS ENDURE GOVERNMENT PRESSURE?
Corruption in the media is no secret. Some journalists are known to receive
envelopes from certain People's Deputies who want to see themselves on
television. Can such people be...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Alchemy Comes Back Into Fashion
Ukraine becomes more and more convinced that one's own mistakes
are the best ones, which one has to periodically repeat in order not to
forget them. Only fools learn from other people's mistakes....
10.11.1998 - 00:00
November 7: Red Letter, Black,or Ordinary Day?
The date marking the 1917 seizure of power by Lenin's Bolsheviks in
St. Petersburg divides Ukraine into two irreconcilable camps, with some
of the populace marching under hammer-and-sickle slogans...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Escape to the Simplest Words
One of the world's greatest literary festivals in Toronto
By Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH, The Day, from Toronto
I never lived in a skyscraper before. There is a very special temptation
in looking...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Commission to Audit NBU Formed
"In submitting its suggestion to form a parliamentary investigatory
committee to audit the NBU, the SDPU(u) faction proceeded from the fact
that we should not let the NBU be thrown to the dogs...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Who Will the Speaker Back?
A declaration made by one of the SPU leaders, Ivan Chyzh, in the interview
with the Segodnia newspaper can be considered sensational: "Tkachenko
has promised to support Moroz (in the presidential...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
This week in history
November 10: World Youth Day November 110, 1928: the Taras
Shevchenko House-Museum opens in Kyiv. November 11, 1872: the Besarabian-Tavriya
Land Bank becomes operational in Odesa. November 11, 1918...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Miners Bury Coal Industry In Kyiv Last Wednesday
Last Wednesday Kyiv saw yet another column of striking miners, this time
marching to the accompaniment of a brass band, with several people shouldering
a coffin half filled with coal. This, in the...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Distant Victory
Another, 55th anniversary separates us from those distant days, when
Kyiv was liberated from occupation by the Third Reich. Yes, it was liberated,
but at what terrible price! The...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
A Small Miracle By the Best Forward in Europe
No doubt the Arsenal coach ArsПne Wenger knows the ins and outs of soccer
very well. Dynamo failed to win a single game at the beginning of the League's
group tournament, yet Wenger kept calling...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Lithuanian President Valdas ADAMKUS: "Cooperation with Ukraine offers a number of unexplored opportunities"
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamikus visited Ukraine last week. How does
this 72-year-old politician, with the best part of his mature years spent
in the United States, view the...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Children Ready to Solve Adult Problems
Anton Pryma, a student at Kyiv's business lyceum, was appointed Chairman
of the UN General Assembly last Monday. This was not a joke. The UN office
in Ukraine is holding a conference called...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
The Unrehabilitated Art of a Vanished Country
The October 1917 Russian Revolution begot not only that unique state
"of workers and peasants" but also a special school of art. Now this state
is no more. And what of its art?
The...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
The Cold of Nuclear Security
The very term, nuclear security, leaves those who remember the spring of
1986 cold, when a planetary disaster was wrapped up in a mixture of rumors
and lies, which still affects people's trust in...
10.11.1998 - 00:00
Corruption In Vogue
Yevgeny Yavlinsky, being interviewed by The Daily Telegraph,
could hardly be suspected of foreseeing his eventual place in the limelight
with a masterfully orchestrated scandal, or that he would be...












