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

№5, (1999)

09.02.1999 - 00:00

Let Us Integrate, For We Are Worthy

By Viktor ZAMYATIN, The Day It is very easy to pout when the Council of Europe, one of the few European organizations Ukraine has managed to get admitted to, chides us in public, as if we were an...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

On the Law of One City and Its Boss

By Tetiana SHULHACH, The Day Last week Verkhovna Rada instructed the Committee on Rules and Deputies' Ethics to check whether the law on the capital of Ukraine passed in the hall differs from the...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

A Philanthropist and His Ingrate Heirs

By Diana KLOCHKO, The Day It has been 150 years since Bohdan Khanenko, founder of the collection at the Kyiv Museum of Occidental and Oriental Art, was born. Every city (Kyiv being no...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Legislative Session Smacks of Presidential Campaign

The Ukrainian Parliament's third session was called to order February 2 with 333 points on the agenda. Analyzing its atmosphere one has to bear in mind that its beginning coincided in time with...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Misadventures of an American in Ukraine

As a true American, Kentucky-born Stephen Wingate is a pioneer deep in his heart. But while his ancestors were taming the Wild West, Steven went to conquer the Wild East, as Ukraine turned out to...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Fascists on the March

By Vitaly PORTNYKOV, The Day A column of fascists led by Barkashov march down Moscow streets with no reaction by law enforcement bodies. Members of the Russian National Unity raise their hands in...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Money Only In Exchange for Reforms

By Viktor ZAMYATIN, The Day What concrete results the Ukrainian emergency mission headed by Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko achieved in Washington have not been disclosed. What the United...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Dzyha Spins Ballet Extravaganza in Lviv

This year the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater will stage three new ballets and three new operas. Even more, this theater's troupe makes an extended tour of Western Europe three or four times...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Crimean Anthem Approved as Bullets Fly

By Tetiana KOROBOVA, The Day Two concurrent processes are going on in the Crimea today: arrests of well-known businessmen-legislators and approval of the basic provisions enshrined in the...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Land in Rivne Oblast Can Be Bought and Sold

By Volodymyr KONIEV, The Day According to experts, the budget of Rivne oblast may earn 69 million hryvnias in revenues as early as this year for the sale of land plots. It is the desire to...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Spreading Good Deeds

By Nina SOTNYK, The Day It seems that citizens of our country have already come to understand that it is useless to expect the current authorities to help them solve problems. Leonid...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

SDU: "The economy, not society, should be market-based"

On January 30 Ukraine received a new party, the Social Democratic Union (SDU). The SDU founding congress attended by 304 delegates from all Ukraine's oblast plus the cities of Kyiv and...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Boris Yeltsin Fires General Prosecutor

By Vitaly PORTNYKOV, The Day Events in Moscow last Tuesday looked like a film thriller. In the morning a team of investigators from the General Prosecutor's Office, reinforced by an Alpha elite...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

Eternal Waiting

By Andriy OKHRYMOVYCH There was so much history there that I have lost all interest in it. The phrase is mine and deals with Prague. The same may be said also about Lviv. It is, of course, a...
09.02.1999 - 00:00

This week in history 

February 9 1648. Bohdan Khmelnytsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine. 1904. Russo-Japanese War begins. February 10:  1784. By Russian government decree, a naval defense port and fortress is named...

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