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

№6, (1998)

17.03.1998 - 00:00

TRADE MOVES TO INTERNET

A new Internet system called the Internet Commerce System was introduced at a recent seminar on the Internet in Banking and Trade which took place in Kyiv. This project was developed by the INT...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

KEEPING TRUE TO CHARACTER

Without doubt, Mykhailo Brodsky's arrest was the most disgusting event of the week. Among the circumstances and commentaries, Volodymyr Horbulin noted, with his innate straightforwardness, that...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

PROSECUTORS ACCUSE EDUARD HURVITS OF BRIBETAKING

"An investigation conducted by the Administration to Combat Organized Crime has established... that Odesa city chairman E. Hurvits illegally received from private citizen O. Anhert material services...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

UKRAINE RANKS 95TH IN LIVING STANDARDS

UNIAN reports that at the Consumer and Poverty Press Conference held in the Trade Union Building it was stated that in the last three years Ukraine has slipped from 45th place in terms of living...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

March 18, 1913: the military organization Ukrayinski sichovi striltsi (Ukrainian Sharpshooters) is founded in Lviv. March 18, 1965: Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first human space...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

OLEKSANDR SHALIMOV’S GOLDEN SCALPEL IS STOLEN

Right before the holidays some unknown robbers broke into the apartment of the well-known surgeon in the Pechersk neighborhood of Kyiv. The criminals opened the apartment door using their own key....
17.03.1998 - 00:00

PRIVATIZATION MAGIC SECURED BY TEMPORARY MANAGERS

"Almost all enterprises know who is going to buy them in the privatization auctions. If some other bidder wins by chance, the State Property Fund announces the auction invalid," declared Chairman...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

VOLODYMYR MATKIV KEEPS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Kyiv's Zoloty Poias (Golden Belt) boxing club witnessed an interesting tournament including ranking bouts and women's boxing for the Ukrainian national championship. The high point was Kyiv's...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

QUO VADIS UKRAINE?

Borys Tarasiuk, head of the Ukrainian mission at NATO, told Ukrainian journalists recently that joining the alliance would take Ukraine about 5-7 years. Theoretically. In this period both sides could...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

CLOSE TO THE TEXT

I am fond of watching faces and taking note of human features. I do not have much trust for all those "giants of the spirit," men with supernatural foresight, luminaries, you name it. Different folks...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

EVHEN MARCHUK: WE NOW NEED A STRONG AND EVEN HARSH REGIME

During their visit to Lviv Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (United) leaders Yevhen Marchuk and Vasyl Onopenko demonstrated the falseness of statements about the apolitical nature of young people...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

MUSEUM ROBBERS HAVE FIELD DAY IN CIS

Most former Soviet republics have of late become a bonanza for antiquities hunters. Interpol reports point to over 40 organized criminal groups operating in Western European countries alone,...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

NUMBER OF DEREGULATION ACTS PREPARED

The License Chamber of Ukraine prepared 12 deregulation acts, according to UNIAN. Among them are presidential decrees "On State Registration System for Business Entities," "On Nonprofit Organizations...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

A LAND OF SHADOWS

Prof. James Mace, consultant to The Day Ukraine is facing elections to its legislative branch which might constitute a turning point in its history. Everyone here has got used to the...
17.03.1998 - 00:00

JUST LIKE 2300 YEARS AGO

The Jewish community of Ukraine, the world's fifth largest, is celebrating Purim, one of their most important holidays. The Jews started celebrating it back in the fourth century BC and like most...

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