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

№9, (2000)

21.03.2000 - 00:00

Healers in Wonderland

My professional duties brought me the other day to the reception in honor of the winners of the Hugo Grotius Prize (named for Dutch humanist and jurist Huig de Groot) awarded by Moscow journal...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Dumka’s French Triumph

The Dumka Choral Cappella has returned from France after appearing in the eighth international classical music festival. That night conducting was Philipp Bender and solo were performed by Maria Noel...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

IVAN DRACH: “Silski visti must come out”

The regular issue of the Silski visti (one of Ukraine’s largest-circulation newspapers) did not come off the presses last Thursday, shortly after the editorial staff marked its eightieth anniversary...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Hendrick BIEGMAN: Civilian Control over the Armed Forces Is One Of NATO’s Key Ideas

Kyiv recently hosted for the first time an away session of the 19 permanent NATO ambassadors with NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson at the head. The Day’s Viktor VORONIUK asked Hendrick Biegman,...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Kuchma Seeks Help in Baku and Tbilisi from Russian Energy Winter

President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said it was an “absolutely correct” decision to put this country on the list of UN Secretary General’s friends, joining the US, France, Germany, Russia, and Great...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Ukraine’s first party of bureaucrats could not keep power

(Continued from Title page) Meanwhile, the rules of the game played by the President’s team are such that consistently pragmatic business groups are on the winning side. The President does not...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Left Process In Progress

The fragmentation of forces on the Left political flank is picking up momentum. It seems we will soon have to report exactly in this style, reminiscent of Soviet reports on harvest campaigns, on the...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Starting at the Ukraine Palace and Continuing to France

The Veriovka National Meritorious Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir belongs to companies more often met abroad than in Ukraine. Founded in 1943, in Kharkiv soon after the city was taken from the Nazis,...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Grand Prix Went To Russia for The First Time

March 11-12 saw the traditional international modern rhythmic gymnastics tournament, Deriuhina Cup 2000 Grand Prix, held in Kyiv’s Palace of Sports. It is for the first time in the history of these...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Moscow and Kyiv continue verbal battles over the Russian Navy

The Black Sea Navy is still the Achilles heel in the Moscow-Kyiv relationship. The basic naval accords, signed and then ratified by the Russian and Ukrainian Parliaments, cover only part of the...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

JUVENILE SUICIDE

Children kill themselves by jumping off roofs, out of windows, hanging themselves, and cutting their wrists. They take their own lives, hoping to enter a different happier world where one and all...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

ALUMINUM WARS:

The Russian media hastened to dub the latest events surrounding the redistribution of Russia’s aluminum complex as the second great patriotic aluminum war. The cannon fire is already heard in...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

IVAN DRACH: “<I>Izvestiya v Ukraine</I>? Let it come out in Ukrainian!”

The Day has more than once stressed its interest lately in the appointment of Ivan Drach as chairman of the newly-formed State Committee for Information Policies, Television, and Radio. For it is...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

FIRST SWALLOW OF SPRING?

Archpriests of three Eastern Orthodox eparchies functioning in Lviv oblast held a meeting on March 8 to discuss the unification of all Orthodox churches in Ukraine into one(!). The assembly was...
21.03.2000 - 00:00

Social organization of the Eastern Slavs

Our Slavic forefathers are first mentioned in historical sources referring to the Volkerwanderung (Great Migration of Peoples) in Europe, with the Roman legions being forced to retreat from their...

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