№43, (1999)
23.11.1999 - 00:00
In Memory of a “Handball Revolutionary”
Handball national teams have gathered for the fourth time in Kyiv to pay tribute to the great coach Ihor Turchyn, who, still referred to as the world handball revolutionary, passed away six years ago...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
During years of independence, Ukraine’s pension system has been tooled to secure bureaucracy’s cozy existence in old age
The Labor and Social Policy Ministry’s recent statistic eloquently testifies to the formation of a new Ukrainian elite, this time among the pensioners. And this is at a time when 95% of those living...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
GERMANS CALLED HIM JOHNNY-ON-THE-SPOT
This story goes back thirty years. It happened in the German city of Magdeburg. In a matter of minutes Captain Ihor Bielikov, Soviet Air Force, became not only a celebrity but a national hero of the...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Festival Triad From Lesia Dychko
The Golden Domed Kyiv Festival, held for the third time in the capital, is a reality thanks to the energy of its director Mykola Hobdych who is also artistic director of the Kyiv Choir, one of...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Truth As a Unit of Cynicism
November 15, marked as the Media Day in Ukraine, coincided with the end of the elections but inspired somewhat different sentiments in the nonresidents. Most Ukrainian journalists I talked to and...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Cat and Dog Unite Against the Cook
The parliamentary week’s intrigue remains the same, centered on two questions: Who will be Premier? Will Speaker Tkachenko retain his post? While the situation in Parliament has relaxed somewhat...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Japanese Miracle from Inside
Leonid Brezhnev was on a visit to Japan. He saw all Japanese technological achievements and asked, “How many years does the USSR lag behind Japan?”
“Forever,” the Japanese replied.
(Continued...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Soccer fete to be again without Ukraine
Ukraine’s soccer players failed to cope with the task not to cede a goal for a demoralized and fatigued team of Slovenia in the course of twenty minutes. A series of mindless mistakes caused by panic...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Serhiy KRYMSKY, Ph.D. in philosophy:
The most fundamental problem for Ukrainian society is to develop its social and political initiative. I mean the independence of citizens in deciding such...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
says Natalie Melnyczuk, director of NATO Center in Ukraine
Since June of 1999, NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine has been headed by Natalie Melnyczuk, an American of partial Ukrainian decent. Such was the unanimous decision of the alliance...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Fifteenth Century Coins Found in Trypilla, One Counterfeit
In late October director of Terebovlia Museum of Local Studies Ihor Zinchyshyn and members of the Young Archeologist Study Group were in a field gathering pottery shards pertaining to the Trypillian...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Tip of the Unemployment Iceberg
In the period from January to October 1999, the number of the unemployed in Ukraine increased 1.3 times over the same period of last year, and reached 1,852,900, i.e., 4.14% of this country’s total...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Why can’t we do likewise?
“HELLO, THIS IS OBUCHI”
The subject of economic crisis would always come up, no matter what I talked with the Japanese about.
“See,” says Yuriko Nakagawa who accompanies me to a briefing at...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Past accomplishments sad
After the presidential elections there will be a rare opportunity for the government and Parliament to implement a comprehensive economic reform program. As in most countries, a window of opportunity...
23.11.1999 - 00:00
Napoleon’s Favorite Game
The roots of the history of billiards extend back into the depths of centuries. While excavating on the territory of today’s Egypt, archeologists unearthed objects testifying that the ancient...
















