№45, (1999)
07.12.1999 - 00:00
WILL UKRAINE START SELLING LAND?
“I have an absolutely normal attitude toward the President
signing this kind of decree. It is one positive long-term action. I think
the President will take this step in the future, for the...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Show for Guests or Oath to the People?
Inauguration is an official state-sponsored function rather than a show for guests. Hence the presence of all People’s Deputies at this ceremony is obligatory, while the solemnity lies precisely in...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Exposition at the Irena Gallery
A new exposition at the Irena Gallery is composed of works by two young artists from Kyiv, Yuliya Firsova (prints) and Hanna Voloshko (sculpture).
At first sight, an attempt to combine such...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Tudjman or Milosevic?
Journalists have often written about the similarity between President of independent Croatia Franjo Tudjman and President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, that they look like twins. In fact, both...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
West Helps Ukrayina to Establish I tself on the Market
The Ukrayina Corporation, hosiery maker in Zhytomyr, has been carrying out low cost restructuring. Firm General Director Boris Kuzminsky has informed us about the results achieved under the project...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
ON DECEMBER 3 THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE HANDICAPPED WAS OBSERVED WITH NEW PROMISES
The Day of the Handicapped (or functionally-impaired or physically challenged, as they are known throughout the civilized world) is observed to draw the attention of governments and the public to the...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Has “Democracy’s Victory” Led to Society’s Defeat?
Last week, the Institute of Politics held a round table discussing the topic, Presidential Elections in Ukraine: Results and Lessons. Taking part were political scientists Mykola Tomenko, Oleksandr...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Young People Are Not Green in Pool
From November 26 to 28, Kyiv’s Rostok Company Club hosted Ukraine’s second championship in billiards (nine ball). The 25 strongest wielders of the cue, including a woman, Ilona Lorentseva, who took...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Post-Genocidal Environment
Yuri Andrukhovych’s column struck a chord with his remark about how so many people here think of world culture in the Russian language. So did Mykola Neseniuk’s remark on how Ukrainian athletes, who...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
No Losses on Eve Of Winter Vacations
Ukraine’s national men’s and women’s teams played last Wednesday this year’s last qualification matches of the 2001 basketball championship of Europe.
Before the match, the women’s team had...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
November 29 marked the centennial of brilliant Ukrainian novelist Hryhory Kosynka
Kosynka appeared on the literary horizon in 1919. At a high school evening literary course he was asked to write a composition in verse on the subject “The Golden Years of Childhood.” What he...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
“We Cannot Carry Out Reforms for the Ukrainians”
This is what the US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer had to say last Thursday in Kyiv, addressing the faculty and students of Taras Shevchenko National University. The American ambassador thinks...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
Telephone Rate Hike Inevitable
The government will not change the tariffs for the basic communication services until the end of this year, Chairman of the State Committee for Communications Oleh Shevchuk told Ukrayinski Novyny. On...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven PIFER: “The US expects Ukrainian support as far as amendments to ABM Treaty are concerned”
The two strategic partners, Russia and the US, now take almost opposite approaches to the future anti-missile defense treaty. Two weeks ago, Ivan Aboimov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
07.12.1999 - 00:00
REVIVING INDIVIDUAL FARMING: Opportunities and Dangers
For the third year in a row, Ukraine’s agricultural sector has been losing money. This has been caused mainly by the stable tendency toward increased disparity in prices for agricultural outputs and...












