№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....












