№10, (2004)
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Political Reform the Opposition’s Way
We all have repeatedly heard allegations from the opposition to the effect that the political reform has been conceived by Medvedchuk and Kuchma to refuse the people access to power through its...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Vadim Perelman, the second [Jewish] Ukrainian producer determined to conquer Hollywood
The story is simple. There is a house for sale (I nearly said a cherry orchard!) in order to pay small debts. However, it is bought not by some smart muzhik, who has made it all the way up to nouveau...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Kamyanets-Podilsky: Back to the Nineteenth Century
Recently a contest was held in Kamyanets-Podilsky among those willing to restore the governor’s manor, a monument of nineteenth century architecture ruined during World War II. “The indispensable...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Kyivan Mykhailo Zhurbin, 92-year-old nephew of Rimsky-Korsakov, upholds the family tradition
Literary and music soirees have become another good tradition cultivated by the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, highlighting the anniversaries of prominent cultural figures, with invitations extended to...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Imitator of Reality
The Kyiv Marat Gelman Gallery hosts a one-man show by veteran of the installation genre in the Ukrainian visual arts, Lviv- based Andriy Sahaidakovsky.
Sahaidakovsky does not visit the capital...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Shevchenko’s philosophy of art: toward the great artist’s jubilee @AU light. Yet, this by no means prevents one from supposing that, for example,
Myth sometimes disguises the true essence of things, and to understand the latter this essence one must have certain experience of perceiving things without undue respect for myths or canons. This...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
On military doctrine, architecture of security, and Ukrainian peacekeepers
Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk made a routine inspection trip in late February, visiting Rivne city and oblast. He met the local administration and military command, discussing retraining and...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
The Social Dimensions of Globalization
The war on terrorism and in Iraq has distracted much of the world’s attention from the pressing issue of how globalization should be managed so that it benefits everyone. A new report, issued by the...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Olena Stezhenska, veteran volunteer movement leader, on modern women, fulfillment, and the ability to be happy
She studied Morse code, learned to fire a machine gun, and dreamed of being a ship captain. Still in school, she was the only girl who represented Moscow’s Young Pioneers in the delegation that...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Expected to be transparent, but hard to bear
Separate demand accounts opened with Ukrainian banks meant to collect VAT payments, transfer them to the state budget, and also reflecting funds involved in such payments and compensations, will be...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
What are the pros and cons of the bill providing for elections according to party lists approved by Verkhovna Rada in the first reading?
Uliana KYRIYENKO, Global Strategies Institute:
“The Kliuchkovsky-Rudkivsky Proportional Elections Bill approved in the first reading has finally concretized the current state of compromise in...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
More or Less
The bill On the Election of People’s Deputies on a Proportional Basis will be prepared for second reading by March 18-19. It is not ruled out that the election barrier will be changed, Interfax...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Government Program: 2004 Version
Last Wednesday the government submitted for Verkhovna Rada’s consideration a draft program for Ukraine’s social and economic development in 2004, titled Consistency. Efficiency. Responsibility....
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Some million and a half Ukrainians work in Russia
Various sources point to some 90% Ukrainians currently working in Russia as illegal immigrants, meaning they are not officially registered, pay no taxes, and that these people can hardly expect old-...
16.03.2004 - 00:00
Unique methods and philanthropy help return thousands of physically handicapped children to a full life
Who belongs to the Ukrainian elite? This is not a rhetorical question. By answering it we actually admit that such and such people are special and have succeeded in doing something other simple...
