№13, (2000)

Recent developments on Ukraine’s foreign policy front show that our state, as if with a wave of a magic wand, has turned from a failing student into a promising one. Foreign delegations come to Kyiv...

Perhaps the epicenter of Ukrainian political activities will soon shift to the regions. Presidential Administration Head Volodymyr Lytvyn, addressing a meeting of regional media representatives,...

Former Socialist Ivan Chyzh, as was to be expected, is now head of the newly-established Left-centrist party, The Justice All- Ukraine Leftist Association. His deputies are lawmakers Mykola...

Chronic nonpayment, broad usage of interenterprise settlements, barter, and promissory note patterns have left Ukraine’s railroads without working capital [current assets, to use the parlance],...

The International Culture and Art Center hosted the premiere of the film East-West. There is every reason to refer to the event as a significant one, even an unprecedented one. At long last the Oscar...

The question implementing the referendum results will obviously be the main issue in Ukraine’s social and political life for at least the next several weeks. In view of the Constitutional Court...

Ukraine and Poland have come out from under the same overcoat, the Warsaw Pact. Now the Polish Army has been donning the NATO uniform for a year, while the Armed Forces of Ukraine are going their own...

Ukrainian science is in dire straits and the research personnel is aging. These are perhaps the two most serious problems facing the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Ukr. abbr., NAN), with the...

On April 13, journalists of the Lviv newspaper Express put up a sandbag barricade on the central square next to Taras Shevchenko monument. This unusual action called Wave of Freedom was caused by...

About 2 million hectares, or 50% of the acreage planned for early cereal crops could be sowed behind schedule, said Minister of Agrarian Policy Ivan Kyrylenko. In his view, the failure to plant at...

The battles over approving the Cabinet’s action program pushed into the background the signing of the Cabinet-Parliament agreement on joint responsibility. According to the scenario, it had to be...

A major event took place in Kyiv’s cultural life when Serge Lifar’s Golden Shoe was presented to the Museum of Historical Treasures in the course of the Fourth International Ballet Festival, Serge...

(Continued from #11, April 4,2000, and #12, April 11, 2000) Russia’s political and social evolution has been far less satisfactory. Yeltsin’s family, under the guidance of Boris Berezovsky, have...

The Ukrainian regional courts, which have earlier passed capital punishment, are to revise the cases and commute the sentences to life imprisonment. On April 13, President Leonid Kuchma issued a...

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Greek Republic in Ukraine, Dimitris Kontoumas, expressed concern in an interview with The Day, No. 11, April 4, 2000, that Turkey was going to...