№5, (2004)
10.02.2004 - 00:00
5000 Ukrainians will Attend The 2004 Olympics
This year Athens, the historical homeland of the Olympics whither they are to return, will attract not only athletes but also tourists. Olena Hetmantseva, general director of MISB Travel Ukraine,...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Torah Scrolls Transferred to Jewish Community
Last Thursday the Zhytomyr Oblast State Archive for the first time since Ukrainian independence transferred the ancient scrolls of the Torah, the Judaic sacred book, to representatives of the Jewish...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Ukrainians begin to cash in on tourism
The land of Ivano-Frankivsk is a small country of mountains, foothills, and plains. Lying between the rivers Bystrytsia-Nadvirnianska and Bystrytsia-Solotvynska, Ivano- Frankivsk originated as the...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Of God, Territory, Titles, And Threats
Recently our friends at The Ukraine Report-2004 (http://www.artukraine.com) passed along a most interesting item taken from Rome’s ZENIT News Services. It seems that Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Sophia LOREN: No Secrets
There are individuals whose lifetime attainments are far greater than any data can illustrate, however upgraded and topical. Sophia Loren, the most beautiful woman, the most captivating, most gifted...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Yury SHCHERBAK: Ukraine is a European country that has a chance and must use
Yury Shcherbak is an eminent figure not only within but also far outside Ukraine. He has been a physician, Doctor of Medicine, author of about 100 scholarly publications, writer, poet, playwright,...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Moscow’s emotions surprise Kyiv
The Tuzla affair has again come to the fore. Despite all their efforts at holding talks behind closed doors, even the diplomats hardened by hundreds of various negotiations sometimes cannot hold back...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
On Children’ s Jazz And Growing Pains
Jazz is a kind of arts that is born before the audience’s very eyes, or rather ears. Can one learn to create jazz improvisations or is it an exceptional gift of nature? Today the whole world is...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
This week in history
February 10. 1940. The first phase in the deportation of the Western Ukrainian population began, affecting the lives of 220,000 people.
1940. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists was split...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Conductor Volodymyr Kozhukhar’s road to success
There was the usual sound of voices and of seats being taken in the audience. The musicians onstage were checking their instruments, producing all kinds of sounds, often very unmusical. Then there...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Companies Going Closed
Big Ukrainian business is tired of never-ending corporate wars. Open (publicly held) companies are turning into closed (privately-held) ones on a mass scale. This enables a company to build an...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
Proven Expertise
Many foreign politicians and experts believe that the deployment of the Ukrainian peacekeeping force in Iraq is Ukraine’s best move to enhance the country’s image abroad. Last Wednesday the first...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
The Antimonopoly Committee being vested with new powers
The Antimonopoly Committee is assuming the shape of a law-enforcement body. Latest changes to the law allow committee members to enter unopposed the territory of any Ukrainian enterprise, inspect the...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
The Table on Lion’s Legs
At the very end of last year, Den’ carried my feature “ New Year’s Eve Skiing” (not carried in this digest), in which I offered my telephone number, due to certain reasons. I have received many calls...
10.02.2004 - 00:00
PENSION ANGEL
Otto von Bismarck once said that the culture of a nation is determined by the manner in which it cares for its pensioners. Ukraine seems to be coming to understand the actual meaning of this...












