№7, (2003)
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Give Up Cigarettes!
According to results from a poll conducted among Ukrainians aged 10 to 22, 40% of teenagers aged 10 to 14 have tried to smoke at least once. The poll was conducted by the Ukrainian Institute for...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
A few strokes to a portrait of Taras Shtonda, soloist with the National Opera and Bolshoi
After his graduation exam at the music college, people walking out of the audience exchanged meaningful glances. They all sensed that they had just witnessed a new phenomenon in the operatic world of...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
“Sarcophagus” Confinement Stumbles Over Ukrainian Budget
Last weekend, the interministerial commission for a complex solution to the Chornobyl problem, headed by the fuel-and-energy Vice Premier, Vitaly Haiduk, held a meeting at the nuclear power station,...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Public offers a remedy for corruption in healthcare
It is an open secret that the sweeping investigation has been brought on primarily by cadre shakeups in the upper echelons of power. The key argument of medics administering treatment to the...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
“What do You Need that Language for?”
It is always a pleasure to be addressed in your mother tongue. And it is even more pleasing when done by a person who is not supposed to know it, one coming from a distant land with totally different...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Spain Pledges Protection for Ukrainian Migrants
Madrid is considering the possibility of signing an agreement with Kyiv designed to protect the Ukrainian workforce in Spain, Spanish State Secretary Ramon de Miguel said following the February 18...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Why Viktiuk could not fit into Lviv mold
The sexual revolution, awaited with trepidation by Lviv’s bureaucrats in charge of culture and communications due to the coming arrival of Roman Viktiuk’s drama company to Ukraine, never took place....
25.02.2003 - 00:00
The Cabinet of Ministers Becomes Champion
Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Yanukovych presented the action plan of his government to the ministers, governors, parliament speaker, and people’s deputies. He noted that it is based on President...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Polevy’s World
The Artists’ House hosted a one-man show by renowned Kyiv artist Hennady Polevy, dedicated to his 75th anniversary. Sometimes it seems that this artist depicts not the real Earth, but some other...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Mykhailo Pohrebynsky on Freedom of Speech
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CE) will meet again, Wednesday, February 26, to discuss the status of the media in Ukraine. This meeting is to pass a resolution, reports the...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
More Leeway for Natural Persons
Last year, 60% of all payments to nonresidents for construction services were made via two undisclosed, average-sized Ukrainian banks. Notably, major cash flows were in the direction of the Baltic...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Electronic Preparedness: Nothing But Manpower So Far
Although Ukraine is making great strides in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT), it still has yet to establish a well-developed informational economy that meets world...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
28th Region: Ukrainians in Portugal
Obviously, quite a few Ukrainians now wish for at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Portuguese language and a little money to buy traditional Portuguese brief pants with gaiters, a vest, wide...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Rush for Innovations: a delayed start
February 20 saw, if not a start, then, a preparation for the start of a new direction in Ukraine’s development. A conference in Kyiv aimed on establishing an “innovation economy model” began with the...
25.02.2003 - 00:00
Nameless Metropolis
The Children’s Art Academy in Obolon is hosting a one-man show to present paintings and drawings by young Kyiv artist Dmytro Filatov. He started with refined and penetrating variations on the theme...












