№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February 15 marked precisely ten years since Soviet troops were withdrawn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
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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
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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...








