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

№47, (1999)

21.12.1999 - 00:00

Salute for the King with No Clothes

The Russian State Duma convened for its last emergency session to ratify the Russia-Belarus Union Treaty. Previously, there was a lot of talk about the Solons not having the time for ratification and...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

Ukraine Exports Champaign And More

Over the past 11 months Ukraine’s champagne exports have exceeded last year’s statistic, totaling 1,732,000 liters, Interfax Ukraine was informed by the Ukrsadvynprom Ukrainian Committee for...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

A New President?

If President Kuchma is serious about slashing government employment by 40% and curbing the power of the feudal landlords running Ukraine’s collective farms, this could be the first step in getting...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

SECRET SPRINGS SETTING OFF NEW POLITICAL CRISIS

Saturday before last, Leonid Kuchma spoke against any steps that could destabilize the situation in the Crimea. When asked about the sharpening conflict between Crimean Speaker Leonid Hrach and the...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

Living in the Past Makes No Sense: We Can Break into the Soccer Aristocracy

After playing the last official game of the season for the Ukrainian soccer national, 1999 can be summed up. Of course, summing up can be done in different ways and many regard the process like...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

As we prepare to greet the new millennium (or is it the last year of the old one? Opinions differ), Ukraine’s Santa Clauses (here called Grandfather Frost and transferred by the Soviet regime from...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

CPU plenum confirms that the party has no clearly formulated program to reform itself

COMMUNISTS SUM UP ELECTIONS The CPU CC Plenum scheduled for early December could theoretically provide quite an impact on the alignment of forces in the Red leadership. Only several weeks ago...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

Yevhen BYSTRYTSKY: “To enter Europe Ukraine needs changes at home”

Financier and philanthropist George Soros is often referred to as the last twentieth century utopian. Also quite often the chain of charitable foundations set up by him in Eastern Europe is regarded...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

US Expects New Beginning of Reforms in Ukraine

“During Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Washington, US President Bill Clinton pointed out one thing: it is better to make difficult decisions at the beginning of a political term than postpone it,” the US...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

Who Sealed Krymsoda’s Fate?

As reported Interfax Ukraine, Head of the World Bank Office in Kyiv Gregory Jedrzejczak said that his institution views transferring the management of the state interest of 50% plus one share in the...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

IAEA Anticipates Nuclear Problems in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Armenia at Midnight December 31

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expressed its overriding concern over the lack of preparedness of three nuclear power plants — in Ignalina (Lithuania), Metsamor (Armenia), and Chornobyl...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

Administrative Reform Failed without Having Begun

Answering a question of The Day’s correspondent, People’s Deputy Dmytro Tabachnyk noted that the administrative, “or, even better, the administrative territorial” reform is one of the three most...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

But relations between two museums in Ukraine and France grow stronger

December 13 was the last day Kyivans and guests of the capital could marvel at a present made Ukraine by the well-known Balzac Museum in SachО near Tours. Now the collection is on its way to the...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

DIFFERENT

“Either things will be different or there will be nothing at all.” This is, by all accounts, the firm position of the President of Ukraine on Parliament. This was also the leitmotif of Leonid Kuchma’...
21.12.1999 - 00:00

European Commission Tries To Close Chornobyl

The European Commission will support the completion of reactors in Rivne and Khmelnytsky, for which it is willing to issue 600 million euros, head of the commission’s delegation in Ukraine Andre...

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