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, (1999)

30.11.1999 - 00:00

Ukraine allowed to have army larger than poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary combined

The military arithmetic has been changed on the expanses from Vancouver to the Urals. This is one of the results of the OSCE Istanbul summit, where the week before last representatives of thirty...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Arizona Gives Jobs

A fourth ship in this year has slid off the ramp at the Leninska Kuznia Open Joint Stock Company. The ship’s name is the Arizona and has been built by request of Germany’s Schiffswerft Schlomer GmbH...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Deputies in search of the lesser evil

After President Kuchma’s announcement that he intends to submit Valery Pustovoitenko’s candidacy as head of a new Cabinet, immediately following the inauguration, December 1, the acting Premier...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

ETERNAL RETURN

A civil funeral took place at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the transfer of the remains of Oleksa Tykhy, Yuri Lytvyn, and Vasyl Stus to their native land....
30.11.1999 - 00:00

IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SHED COMMUNISM

Leonid Kuchma may have trounced his nearest contender— Communist Petro Simonenko— but his recent election to a second five-year term as Ukraine’s president falls short of being a victory for...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

This week in history

November 30: 1867. Tsarist Russia’s first electric lighthouse was commissioned in Odesa. 1996. The State Customs Service of Ukraine was set up by decree of the President Kuchma. December 1: 1853...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Was it let loose because there was no strength to support it?

Last Thursday may become a notable milestone in the history of our national currency. Deputy Premier and one of the probable candidates for Prime Minister, Serhiy Tyhypko, announced, for the first...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Winter Endurance Test

I like autumn, especially early October when one can take one’s time strolling through a sunlit park, gently kicking reddish-yellow fallen leaves. One can unbutton one’s coat, sit on a stump in the...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

German Consultants Offer Their Own Prescription for the Ailing Ukrainian Economy

As German consultants believe, reforms cannot be put off any longer because this country has nothing to lose and nowhere else to fall. If we have a look at the course and results of reforms in...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Sad Reflections

The ancients, Greeks in particular, found it rather easy to live: they believed in fate which shaped the future of an individual or a nation in every detail. Whatever happened, it was “not because of...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

The Inspiration of Liberation

PRAGUE: Ten years ago today the Czechoslovak Communist regime brutally intervened against a peaceful demonstration of students who had decided to pay tribute to the memory of Jan Opletal, a student...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Corrections to Be Made in Development Ukrainian Armed Forces

That the Ukrainian army is battle worthy and capable of fulfilling its defensive mission was the leitmotif of the speeches journalists were allowed to hear on November 23 during the end-of-year...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

“A person used to freedom will not return to the cage”

It was some time before I could spot the noted author’s whereabouts on the coordinates grid ranging from Moscow to Munich (see historical reference below). Finally I got through and he lifted the...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Semen HLUZMAN , President, Ukrainian Association of Psychiatrists: This is complex question, and I don’t think it can be answered in simple fashion. In my view, political upheavals cannot benefit...
30.11.1999 - 00:00

Think OSCE observers who pointed out numerous violations in the election campaign

As is known, the course of Ukrainian presidential election and its compliance with Ukrainian and international laws was closely watched by the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Bureau (DIHRB)...

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