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

№7, (1999)

23.02.1999 - 00:00

Oleksandr YELIASHKEVYCH: "The Lazarenko case is merely a detail in the case of Kuchma"

Interviewed by Larysa IVSHYNA, Volodymyr ZOLOTARIOV, Iryna HAVRYLOVA, Dmytro SKRIABIN, The Day     In a way, People's Deputy Oleksandr YELIASHKEVYCH can be regarded as...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

For Whom Was the Afghanistan War a Lesson?

February 15 marked precisely ten years since Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan (see The Day #6 of February 16). Some 160,000 young Ukrainians fought in that barbarous war and...
23.02.1999 - 00:00
    During his inauguration the President of Ukraine took the oath of office on Peresopnytske Gospel. Perhaps he knew that he was touching a relic of the nation's...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Ex-Premier in Dire Straits

This week's news has clearly been dominated by the flight, stripping of parliamentary immunity, and taking into US custody of former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, overshadowing even the...
23.02.1999 - 00:00
cul-2 Life Under the Varangians Swedish road of the Lutsk ball-bearing plant By Oleh POTURAI, The Day The Lutsk Ball-Bearing Plant (LPZ) is to lay off almost 1900...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Kyiv Mayoral Elections Still Not Set

But the intrigues are well underway By Iryna HAVRYLOVA, The Day The date (February 16) for Parliament fixing the date of the Kyiv mayoral election was clearly inauspicious for Mayor...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Gray Reality

By Viktor ZAMYATIN, The Day With all the insane and interminable discussions about whether Ukraine should become a full member of the CIS and Interparliamentary Assembly (which does not make much...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

The Greatness and Shame of Prince Yaroslav

By Ihor SIUNDIUKOV, specially for The Day This ancient Ukrainian ruler died in 1187 a natural death in his capital of Halych. This fact is significant, for far from all princes thus ended their...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Lazarenko in Expedited Removal

Ukraine officially requested the United States and Interpol Sunday to extradite former Premier Pavlo Lazarenko detained Friday at Kennedy Airport in New York. Former head of the Ukrainian...
23.02.1999 - 00:00
cul-2 ECONOMY FOR THE WEEK  A Hero of Our Time A prestigious Russian magazine wrote some three months ago: "A young promising politician named Pavlo Lazarenko acted...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

OPINION

The state is, of course, a good thing, and any people, they say, is doomed without it. But if the people do not feel they are a united nation, then their state is nothing, a ghost, a phantom...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Dynamo Defends Surkis

By Vyacheslav YAKUBENKO, The Day Last Friday the Socialist faction demanded that the General Prosecutor's Office start criminal proceedings in a case of threat to a statesman. It began February 17...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Ukrainian Village Lays Claim To Brooklyn Bridge

By Mykhailo VASYLEVSKY, The Day "Our Narkevychi inhabitants are extremely exasperated by the situation, which forced Ms. Madeleine Albright to announce financial aid cuts for our country. We...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Where Did the Dossier On the Reds Go?

Last week the Constitutional Court commenced open hearings initiated under a referral of a group of Communist People's Deputies. However, judging by the preliminary debate, the issue of...
23.02.1999 - 00:00

Ten Years on the Run

By Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH, The Day The death sentence seems not to have made Salman Rushdie a worse writer. We have no choice but to believe Western reviewers and observers that every new piece...

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