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

№42, (1999)

16.11.1999 - 00:00

Vatra Takes On Philips

Its most promising trend is manufacturing lighting equipment for stadiums. Vatra’s President Roman Yaremchuk says the important thing is that the company carries out such orders only in return for...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

or Who is divvying up the pie and how

On November 4 Verkhovna Rada set to work on one of its most important constitutional tasks, deliberating the 2000 state budget bill. Unfortunately, the first try proved abortive; the first reading...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Tank Repartition

Henceforth the Malyshev Plant will sell the tanks it produces on its own. A November 4 government decision gave this Kharkiv-based factory the status of a special exporter, although as recently as...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Kyiv Dynamo Qualifies for Champions League Next Leg

The possibilities of the final line-up in the group where Dynamo and the Germany’s Bayer contested the right to go on to the second round gives more than enough food for variation. Indeed, two teams...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Yevhen MARCHUK: “Ukraine needs a mechanism of public control over those in power”

On November 10 Yevhen Marchuk gave the first press conference as NDSC Secretary. He said, “The European tradition of political compromise is perhaps emerging in Ukraine. I am interested in extending...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Readers Sound Off Not So Much For Kuchma As Against the Communists!

I want to write about the presidential elections, those past and still to come. I voted for Marchuk. I am not going to dwell on my turning out “dumber” and in the minority, while all those others...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Kyiv’s Young Theater Premiers ReKHUviLIYzor

The worst news possible in dramatic art is no news. Theatrical events have to be created. A new stage production at Kyiv’s Young Theater was obviously aimed at creating this kind of event: at least...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

YEVHEN MARCHUK APPOINTED NDSC SECRETARY

Last Wednesday Leonid Kuchma appointed Yevhen Marchuk Secretary of the National Defense and Security Council. Interfax Ukraine quotes the President as saying that he has “no differences in views...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Serhiy PERESUNKO: “Stiff Opposition to Power Bears No Fruits”

Serhiy Peresunko, leader of the Social Democratic Union (SDS) who supported Yevhen Marchuk in the presidential elections, said at a press conference last Thursday that Mr. Marchuk’s decision to take...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Ukrainian enterprises spend 6.5% of average annual income on bribes

The average bribe level in post-Soviet countries is almost twice as that in Central and Eastern European states. This information is provided in a recently published report on the economic...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

It will be most interesting after the campaign

Respected Ukrainian political scientist Mykola Tomenko thinks that the latest series of deals between the groups led by Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Viktor Medvedchuk and Premier Valery...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Kateryna SEREBRIANSKA: “As a child I watched to see how my pastries were selling”

Whatever you say, it is undoubtedly sad to part with Kateryna Serebrianska who on Friday said good- bye to big-time sports. The overall Olympic champion in modern rhythmic gymnastics, the many-times...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Last year 23,400 less children were born in Ukraine than in 1997

The urban population decreased by 254,100 from January 1998 to January 1999, and that of rural areas by 140,100. By the start of this year Ukraine’s population had dropped to 50.1 million. Last year’...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

US Says No to Nuclear Weapons in Europe

NATO and the United States do not intend to deploy nuclear weapons in the territories of new members of the Alliance, US Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security John Holum declared...
16.11.1999 - 00:00

Molodist film festival set record in spectator interest

The twenty-ninth Molodist international film festival ended on the last day of October in Kyiv’s Ukrayina Palace. The current cinema forum became first in many respects, not only in terms of...

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