№44, (1998)
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Rebuke in the Checkbook
With no pay or other sources of income, it is definitely impossible
to heat apartments at $80 per 1000 cubic meters, and thus the government
is trying to pretend to work for price reduction.
The...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
This week in history
December 8, 1868: the Prosvita Ukrainian rural educational and
cultural society is founded in Lviv. December 8, 1991: leaders of
Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement setting up the...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Vaccination for Spiritual Infirmity
Philologist Vira Sulyma's study of Biblical allusions in Ukrainian
literary works from the eleventh century to our day is the basis for the
new textbook, Bibliya i ukraiinska literatura (The Bible...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Readers Sound Off
After The Day carried the discussion, "Will the Press
Endure Government Pressure? (Nos. 39-42), the Editors received many letters
from journalists and readers to whom the freedom of the press...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
A Little Russian Happening
Hryhory Kvitka came from an old Cossack family and was son of a senior
Black Sea Cossack officer. He could become an ordinary burgher, maybe even
a Privy Counselor, earning enough to lead the...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Kharkiv Initiative: Consolation Prize For Weak?
Last March, during US State Secretary Madeleine Albright's visit to
Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma said that Ukraine finally renounced participation
in the Russian-Ukrainian contract to build a...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Will Lazarenko Case be Transferred to Kyiv?
Hromada people picketed the Swiss Embassy in Kyiv yesterday, demanding
Pavlo Lazarenko's immediate release in Switzerland, The Day's Ruslana
PISOTSKA reports.
The picketers started by assuring...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Ivan SALIY:"I am now a wise and cautious person"
Ivan Saliy belongs to the perestroika generation of politicians. He can
hardly be identified as a democrat or reformer, but he was also not typical
of the party nomenklatura of the period. He did...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Nina KARPACHOVA:"I will do everything possible so that the state obeys the laws"
The meeting with Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Ombudsman Nina Karpachova
took place on the birthday of this institution. Seven months is a critical
period for any newborn, but this is...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
When Odysseus Was Returing Home
Larysa Paris staged Bald Chanteuse, and Oleksandr Ihnatusha Amphitryon
in the Kyiv Experimental Theater.
I recall a story, obviously far from anecdotal, about a Chukchi pupil
who wrote his...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Blocking the Runaway
The An-70 and An-140 projects are "on the critical edge," declared
Minister of Industrial Policy Vasyl Hureyev at a Cabinet session.
Due to insufficient funding in 1998, the projects' development...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Province Stimulates Creative Life
Ukrainian House is hosting an exposition of relics from the special stock
of Lviv's Museum of the History of Religion, marking the first stage of
a new Ministry of Culture and Art project. The...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Living on the Verge of the AIDS
The statistics are deadly. In Ukraine, the HIV infection rate for 100,000
people is several times higher than in other CIS countries.
As reported by the Ukrainian AIDS center, Ukraine...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
Volodymyr Klychko to Fight Rematch Next Summer
Volodymyr Klychko will have a return fight against American-born Purity
next summer. Yesterday Volodymyr Klychko himself announced this. The day
before yesterday brought the most...
08.12.1998 - 00:00
News in Brief
Victory Not Enough For Success
In the Kyiv Palace of Sports, the Ukrainian national basketball team
defeated England 66:60 in a regular game of the European Championship prelims.
Murzin with...










