№11, (2000)

On March 23-27, 2000, the Family and Youth Department and the Youth Services Center of the Kyiv oblast state administration and the Pioneers League of Kyiv oblast held the eighth oblast-level...

On March 29, the Constitutional Court (CC) announced its ruling on the constitutionality of the President’s decree to hold a Ukrainian referendum on the people’s initiative. The CC recognized as...

As a professor at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy National University, which George Soros has done a great deal to support, I can testify to his commitment to Ukraine. He has reduced the budget of his...

On March 28 the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) and the city of Slavutych saw the Ukryttia (Shelter) Chornobyl Foundation wrap-up assembly participated by delegations from the donor countries...

At the end of March, the Swiss newspaper Daily Zeitung made public some quite interesting information about a new twist in the relationship between the Constantinople and Moscow patriarchates....

With executive branch staff still to be cut, the government has decided on second thoughts to increase the number of bureaucrats and the fleet of cars. According to a resolution of March 10, the...

A sensitive nation like the Ukrainians seems to need a Hero. It is desirable that the hero be handsome and at least not poor, for those who expect a fairy-tale want to forget their own hardships...

April 4: 1838. Taras Shevchenko was bought out of serfdom. 1919. Ukrainian Front troops entered the Crimea, taking the cities of Perekop and Virmensky Bazar. April 5: 1657. A council of...

The turn of the new year 2000 was marked by tempestuous political events in Ukraine. Without going into the political results, I would like to emphasize the main thing: these events planted the seeds...

It is a strength of our democracies that even when a military operation is successful and commands overwhelming international support, many will question whether it should have been undertaken — on...

Many analysts have pointed out that the Constitutional Court ruling on the referendum posed more questions than it answered existing ones. Indeed, the CC virtuosi managed to arrive at a decision...

The Ukrainian Left is living through a trying period. After the epoch of “casting away stones” — traditionally large-scale election campaign promises, undisguised capitalizing on the electorate’s...

The sensational resignation of Naftohaz Ukrayiny chairman of the board Ihor Bakai was presented in a manner that will long keep it in the press’s attention. The more so that Mr. Bakai called on...

People were sitting on steps and standing in the aisles of the hall of the House of Teachers which hosted an evening in memory of Vyacheslav Chornovil. They had honest and lucid faces; they cried...

Ukraine can overcome its crisis only after its top echelons learn to sacrifice corporate interests for national goals. Every step forward humanity has taken was conceived and initiated inside a...