№7, (2004)
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Those Who Will Count Us
Last Tuesday Verkhovna Rada ratified ten out of twelve candidates for members of the Central Election Committee, presented by President Leonid Kuchma. Prior to this, the parliament officially halted...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
A memorial plaque was put up recently in honor of Ivan Fedorov (Fedorovych) on Onufry Monastery’s wall in Lviv
Historians claim that the corner of Lviv’s Krakivska and Virmenska streets, now a children’s playground, was once the place of Ivan Fedorov’s printing shop. To set up a new print shop in what was...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
To Create an Adequate Army
To break the horrible chain of misfortunes that have haunted Ukraine’s Armed Forces for the past four years is one of the goals of the defense reform launched by the Defense Ministry. Ukraine’s...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Collective Conspiracy
Last week the leaders of six parties — SDPU(o), the Party of the Regions, Agrarian Party, National-Democratic Party, Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and Labor Ukraine — and three deputy...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Ukrainian rockets in the orbit of new markets
It is not excluded that February 2004 will become quite a landmark in the history of Ukrainian rocket-making: a contract is to be signed in the small Italian town Colifero near Rome, which for the...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Ukrainian Paralympians Win Big in Canada
The final round of the Paralympics Skiing World Cup ended recently in Orford, Canada. In the closing stage the Ukrainian winter Paralympics team was represented by team leaders Olena Yurkovska,...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Dog in the Oil Manger
The Ukrainian Parliament was to vote on a bill last Thursday, amending the law on concessions with a clause extending the scope to the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline and the rest of Ukraine’s oil...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Deep Sorcery
Andriy Levytsky, a graphic artist of Kyiv, held a personal exhibit at the Tadzio Gallery. He titled it Intaglio (incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief). Levytsky’s most characteristic...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Observations and warnings
Eric FRANKE, General Director, UMC Mobile Communication Operator:
“Few have the courage to come and work in Ukraine. But I’ve been here three years and got used to it. I even like it here. Now...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
If the donors did not fall prey to misinformation
Academician Mykola Amosov was asked once what he thought made the difference between a backward and a civilized country. The noted cardiac surgeon instantly replied, “Practicing heart transplants is...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Navy’s Black Sea Integration
The Sevastopol-based Ukrainian Navy’s press service has quoted Rear- Admiral Ihor Kniaz, Officer Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Navy, as saying that the development of relations between the...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Hearings on Pavlo Lazarenko case begin in San Francisco
Preliminary hearings on the case of Ukraine’s former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko who was charged with laundering $114 million, have started in San Francisco, USA. The hearings were opened in the...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Halychyna begets a cultural elite
The number of knights in Halychyna registers a sharp increase. The Lviv Opera finally hosted a ceremony announcing and honoring the most prominent figures winning the contest Galician King ‘04. In...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
Tragedy in the Making
Consider the situation that is shaping up in the Ukrainian countryside, where about a quarter of the country’s population still live. Soon the people who are working some of the best farmland on...
24.02.2004 - 00:00
What is the correct proportion between industrial and postindustrial development?
Almost 80% of the US population are involved in the non-manufacturing sector, i.e., research, education, public health, and culture, which provides for the all-round development of human beings....








