№5, (2005)
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Yushchenko’s Team Wins Best Election Campaign Award
The American Association of Political Consultants has presented Viktor Yushchenko’s election campaign team with a special award, “International Campaign Team of the Year,” Radio Liberty reports. AAPC...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Chornobyl: Funding Problems May Cause Disaster
Chornobyl’s official Web site (http://www. chnpp.atom.gov.ua) contains data that will increase your heart rate. The specific characteristic of the Shelter (popularly known as the sarcophagus) is its...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Process is Underway; Headed Where?
The administrative reform promised by the new government has not been long in coming. Last Saturday the Cabinet of Ministers passed a resolution to dissolve fourteen executive agencies, most of them...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
A Lay Arbiter
At a press conference held in Zhytomyr on February 8 President Yushchenko indicated that in the course of the administrative reform he intends to reduce the number of state committees and other...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Stalin Monument Put on Hold
The 60th anniversary of the Yalta Conference was a low-key affair in the Crimea. There was a rally and a flypast of airplanes from participating countries at Saki Airfield, two exhibitions at the...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Single Economic Space Membership Not Expedient For Ukraine
Ukraine will not implement documents on accession to the Single Economic Space if it decides that they do not mesh with its national interests. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Save Our Churches!
Transcarpathia still has 118 wooden churches that were built over the past five centuries. Forty-eight of them are registered as architectural monuments. By contrast, Slovakia has only 27 wooden...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
A Thaw
On February 11 a high-level delegation of US Congress members paid a one-day visit to Ukraine. Among the visitors were such key figures as Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Sen. McCain is a...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
The Price of Land
The adoption in 1992 of a Land Code to regulate private and communal ownership, alongside state ownership of land, marked the beginning of a long transition of former state farmlands into private...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
At the Juncture of Two Cultures
History is not always a merciful and fair judge, nor does time always set the record straight, recognizing honest and noble service for one’s people and native culture and discarding all passing,...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Prison Inmates Complain to President Yushchenko
Ukraine’s president is planning to meet with the heads of the State Penitentiary Department to discuss the future of the nation’s penitentiary system. According to the presidential press service,...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
A Fair Share of Ore: Steel Industry Still Feels December Price Shock
Whoever owns raw materials lays down the rules. This was confirmed in early December of last year, when the owners of the largest ore-mining businesses hiked prices by 20-34%, thus forcing some of...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
How to Teach Bribe Takers to Curb Their Appetites
It is difficult to imagine a more noble goal than the one Viktor Yushchenko and Yuliya Tymoshenko have set themselves under the influence of the Orange Revolution — to eliminate the corruption...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
A Truckload of Commitments
The new Ukrainian cabinet will submit a revised draft 2005 budget bill to the Verkhovna Rada on March 15. According to President Yushchenko, the bill will envisage the implementation of his campaign...
15.02.2005 - 00:00
Two Prophets
Whenever Taras Shevchenko is described as a prophet, this epithet carries the implication of some general and abstract characteristics of prophesying. By the same token, Ukraine’s national bard has...











