№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...










