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

№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...

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