№46, (1999)
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Hryvnia in Search of Where to Fall
After three days of intensive decline, the hryvnia rate at the Interbank Currency Exchange has virtually collapsed, falling last Wednesday by 5.3% from UAH 5.22-5.3 to the dollar to UAH 5.52- 5.56...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Lawmakers “correct” Ukraine’s approach to illegal migration
Verkhovna Rada has introduced changes in the Criminal Procedural and Administrative Codes, particularly in terms of penalties (fines) levied on illegal immigrants. Persons arrested for illegal...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Still Trying to Fool the West
After the tough talking to President Kuchma got in Washington, an old truism has been demonstrated yet again: the former nomenklatura running this country will promise anything, like fighting...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Nobel Laureate Born in Rivne Oblast
Often we do not know our history well enough or fellow countrymen who contributed significantly to the development of civilization. This has become a sad axiom. By contrast, our historians never fail...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Andriy SHEVCHENKO: “Is there a place in the post-Soviet space where the economy has progressed so far that only soccer players mar the overall rise with their failures?..”
Two years ago he caused a great stir throughout Europe with the way he played. The rout of Barcelona in the League of Champions (7:0 in all) and his four goals immediately made the Dynamo top scorer...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Does NATO feel unsafe in Ukraine?
The traditional Sea Breeze naval exercise started in Ukraine on December 9, its third. Unlike the two previous ones, this year’s military show caused political outbursts neither in Verkhovna Rada nor...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Can Jazz Influence The Weather?
A hot jazz week has ended in Kyiv, and not our traditional Fall Jazz Marathon. There are marathons and there are marathons, so it is for everyone to decide what is what. Kyiv was toured by two...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Will There Be Fewer Contraband Cigarettes?
The President has signed a law setting the excise duty rate on tobacco items at ten hryvnias per thousand pieces for filter cigarettes and seven hryvnias per thousand for non-filter cigarettes,...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Ukraine Imports Sugar
Ukraine exported 66,900 tons of sugar worth $21.5 million in the first nine months of this year, 27,000 tons up on the same period of last year (39,900 tons worth $15.5 million), Interfax-Ukraine...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
SBU Promises to Get to High-Placed Corrupt Officials
In the first eleven months of this year the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) initiated 2108 criminal cases (vs. 1181 last year), and over UAH 519 million has been returned to the state budget, three...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Two polarized approaches to public property do not help foreign investment
President Kuchma proposed Verkhovna Rada repeal the law on the State Property Fund as running counter to the Constitution and other laws of Ukraine.
Mr. Kuchma drew the legislature’s attention to...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Writes press about Volodymyr Klychko after win Lajos Eros
The Klychko brothers have managed to achieve what world light heavyweight champion Dariusz Michalczewski of Poland could only dream of for five years: the Ukrainian boxers are lionized and recognized...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Irony of History
Perhaps the shortness of human memory is an irony of history, and perhaps the greatest irony of history is that it has never taught anyone anything. Irony of history, among other things, is that the...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
Author of The Cathedral proclaimed Judas
They did not spare him, either. Several days ago we all learned that Oles Honchar was another Judas. At least such was the decision of a group of people in the course of The Last Supper 2000 art...
14.12.1999 - 00:00
HAS MOSCOW CREATED A SUPERPOWER OR UNDERPOWER?
The presidents of Russia and Belarus have signed a Treaty on Establishing a Union State at a solemn ceremony in the Kremlin. It will be recalled that the signing was first scheduled for November 26,...











