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

№41, (1998)

17.11.1998 - 00:00

Emission Overhaul For Stabilization

Does Russia's lot await Ukraine? In only six days, from November 3 to 9, the hryvnia exchange rate at currency exchange kiosks dropped 4.8%. In the provinces it fell even lower. And a second...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Can We Start Life Over With a Clean Slate? 

I am very skeptical about using meters, centimeters or millimeters in defining one's creative success. Most of the upstarts I know of believe they have grabbed God by his beard, but...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Berdychev:Where Frederic Chopin Began his Career 

A half-legend has it that after the wedding ceremony of Honore de Balzac and Ewelina Hanska, an interesting conversation took place outside the St. Barbara's Cathedral. An old Berdychev tailor...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Communists Flunk Trial by Makashov

Really, what are Communists? In our situation, this word lost its ideological context long ago. During the final decades of the Soviet Union, the word used to denote a handful of nomenklatura...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Renaissance of Photographic Art from The Day

The exhibition of works by The Day's photo correspondents in Lviv has ended. The results exceeded even the highest hopes of the most incorrigible optimists. The Day proved that it is possible not...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Government Economic Block Needs Changing 

On November 13, precisely one month passed after the discovery of a new panacea for all Ukraine's troubles, rotation. As we know, no rotation has taken place and the topic lost its relevance. Those...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Will Emission Beget Corruption?

It seems that during the past years of crude experimentation with reforming Ukraine's economy just about everything has been said about emission. One could hardly expect to find a single newspaper...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

George SOROS:"I warned Kuchma, that the ability to borrow will disappear"

Outstanding international financier and philanthropist George Soros said last Wednesday at a roundtable in the Kyiv National University, that Ukraine "is falling economically."...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

IMF Again Has Problems With Ukraine

As early as November 6, the IMF Board of Directors decided to give Ukraine the second $78 million installment within the extended funding facility (EFF) program. However, the IMF mission is...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Readers Sound Off 

Dear Students and Recent Alumni: I have been publicizing the USA/USA Program in Ukraine through the infinite possibilities of Internet. Since early summer I have been reading with interest the...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

On Rave and Drive

By Yuri IZDRYK, The Day Once, talking to an a friend who was also expert on modern music, I mentioned "rave" disparagingly. My friend said he agreed one hundred percent and we spent quite some...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Canadian Ambassador Visits The Day

Derek R. T. Fraser, Canada's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Ukraine, recently began his work in Ukraine. In introducing himself, he jokingly explains that he is from...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Serendipity

After Oksana Baiul won the Olympics, Ukrainian fans heard little from her fellow figure skaters. Olena Liashenko and Yuliya Lavrenchuk managed to bag only two bronze medals in the European...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Yegor GAIDAR: "Serious reforms will start in Ukraine only when they have considerable public support"

While giving a speech at the international economic conference "Ukrainian reforms: lessons and hopes," and generalizing the experience of Russian reforms, Russia's former Prime Minister...
17.11.1998 - 00:00

Thanks, Iryna!

With the possible exception of Oleksiy Plotnykov, Iryna Klymenko has done more to help us understand the riddle of the Ukrainian economy, and that also means Ukrainian politics, than anyone else....

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