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

№43, (1998)

01.12.1998 - 00:00

Power vs. People 

Rising Utility Bills: For and Against     The Constitutional Court started hearings on November 24 in the President vs. Parliament case, challenging the constitutionality of the...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Surrogate Privatization Will Go On

"It's a good song. Let's sing it again." This is about what we can say about the next turn in the privatization saga - to sell enterprises for domestic bonds, instead of money. Recall that such...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Medical Staff Reduction Deadly for Ukrainian Health

According to a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, medical staff is to be reduced by 5.7% by the end of 1998. The presidium of the central committee of Health workers trade union immediately...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

WEEKLY ROUNDUP 

Winter came and the residents of Mykolayiv had to adapt themselves to a new style of life. As was the case with the countryside, periodic electricity cutoffs cover whole neighborhoods. This is...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Sabre-Svitlo Presents Kyiv a Library

On November 24 at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy National University, an exhibition of the latest scholarly literature, garnered from libraries and other institutions in the USA, Canada, and Western...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Which National Colors Shall Fly in Ukraine?

James Mace's article, "A Land in Blood" (The Day, No. 42), aroused in me not only memories of one of the most dramatic pages of our national history but also personal reminiscences and feelings...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Encore to Chornobyl Coming? 

By Vitaly KNIAZHANSKY, The Day The week before last Ukraine's nuclear safety was precariously under the shadow a new Chornobyl. The automatic unit discharge system was blocked and switched...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Ukrainian High Schoolers First in Europe 

The results of the ninth annual European Youth Researches the Environment contest were announced in Berlin. Two Kyiv-born sixteen year olds, Bohdan and Andriy Tovchenko, were announced the winners...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Tetiana KYSELIOVA:"State Standardization Committee wants to cooperate, but with no double standards"

  It is no secret that many imported low-quality, dangerous, and counterfeit goods are sold in Ukraine. Is the State Standardization Committee, now the central consumer protection organ,...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Will Mykola Biloblotsky Prevent President from Clashing With Parliament?

As The Day predicted, the Presidential Administration Press Service announced that President Leonid Kuchma has signed an order appointing former Deputy Premier Mykola Biloblotsky...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Handicapped Spirit Threatens Society

One of the unresolved problems that Ukraine inherited from the USSR is the problem of the handicapped. Soviet society always hid it in the dark corner of issues closed for discussion....
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Misheard Histories

By Vyacheslav MEDVID Something strange happened to me the other day. When asked by a Radio Kyiv reporter about my attitude toward certain trends in modern literature, I flew into a long...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Similar Fate, Different Experience

Krakow hosted a conference called Ukraine and Poland: Common Fate, Different Experience, organized by the Polish Pen Club and St. Volodymyr Foundation. Several dozen intellectuals from both...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

This week in history 

December 1: World AIDS Day. December 1, 1853: a Russian naval squadron commanded by Admiral Nakhimov defeats the Turks at Sinope on the Black Sea. December 1, 1991: an all-Ukrainian referendum...
01.12.1998 - 00:00

Serial Murderer as an Argument For Capital Punishment

Hearings last week in the case of Anatoly Onopriyenko, charged with 52 murders in the first degree committed in the territory of Ukraine, took place in the largest courtroom of...

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