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, (2003)

18.03.2003 - 00:00

Political Reform Faces Vicious Circle in Parliament

The presidential decree to subject the bill On Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine to a nationwide referendum has aroused much speculation and criticism. The broad consensus on the need for a...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

March Comes in Under The Sign of Richter

“All the music is inside his head shaped like Michelangelo’s dome. All that beautiful music nestles there like the Infant in the lap of Raphael’s Madonna,” Heinrich Neihauz, another prominent pianist...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Opposition Without Alternative

The recent airing of President Kuchma’s vision of political reform turned out to be a smart tactical move, no matter what analysts might say about the substance of its basic idea, one to which the...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Stephaniya DOVHAN: Kyiv-Baltimore-Kyiv

Those coming to the Lysenko Hall of Columns to the concert dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Bureau of the Commercial Counselor of the Austrian Embassy, have got a surprise; in fact, more...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Ukrainian question remains unanswered

The European Commission adopted a document setting out a new framework for relations over the coming decade with Russia, the “Western new independent states” (meaning Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus),...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Free trade zone: the most Ukraine can afford

I am convinced that there can be no justified objections to the economic relevance of the statement signed by the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, concerning further efforts...
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Says US Ambassador to Ukraine

From the start of this year it began to seem that the Ukrainian-American relationship, which had undergone a most serious crisis last year, has started to gradually warm. It also seemed that United...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

For the first time our singer takes part in the Eurovision contest

During the March holidays our beloved pop singer worked with tripled effort. On the eve of the holiday, renowned Israeli composer Tzvika Pik, author of the “Viva,” which won the Eurovision to...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

NBU Pledges Liberalism

The National Bank of Ukraine has lifted its 5% limitation introduced in the fall of 2001 on the exchange rate spread between the buy and sell prices for street currency exchanges. According to NBU...
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Roman Kofman will direct the fifth Vladimir Horowitz Memorial Piano Competition

I met orchestra conductor Roman Kofman the day before his departure to Germany as this season’s chief conductor of the Bonn Opera’s Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Shortly afterward he would conduct...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Candle in the Window, Sorrow in the Soul

I completely support the ideas and conclusions that Prof. James Mace presented in his article, “A Candle in the Window” (The Day, No. 6, February 18) and especially with his proposal that a candle be...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Mufti Tamim Akhmed, “Our aim is not to let Islam be used for political ends”

The Day recently received Mufti Tamim Akhmed Mohammed Moutah, head of the Clerical Administration of the Muslims of Ukraine. Mufti is Arabic for “one who explains,” i.e., an adept of the Shariah, one...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

The Bubble of American Supremacy

As American and British troops prepare to invade Iraq, public opinion in these countries does not support war without UN authorization. The rest of the world is overwhelmingly opposed to war. Yet...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

Slava Stetsko: A Life for Ukraine

March 13 brought sad news: Yaroslava Stetsko, people’s deputy of Ukraine and chair of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, died in Germany. A Woman in the upper case, she lived a life...
18.03.2003 - 00:00

The 1654 Pereyaslav Rada: Myths and Realities

(Continuation. See The Day of January 28 and February 11, 2003) III. THE “HOT” FEBRUARY OF 1654 The main lesson that Bohdan Khmelnytsky must have drawn from the...

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