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

№13, (2001)

24.04.2001 - 00:00

283 deputies give cabinet failing marks

At the moment when the digital board in the Verkhovna Rada session hall flashed the figure 290 — the number of people’s deputies who voted for a resolution to consider the governmental performance as...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Who Switched On Melnychenko?

Leonid Kuchma is convinced that the continuing anti-presidential agitation is a well-orchestrated campaign aimed at an early resignation of the duly elected President, Interfax reports. “You can also...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Parliamentary Commission to Hand Over First Melnychenko Disc to Prosecutor General’s Office

Last Wednesday the Verkhovna Rada ad hoc commission investigating the disappearance of journalist Heorhy Gongadze decided to transfer to the Prosecutor General’s Office one disc of Major Melnychenko’...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Licensing Runs Into Continent of Problems

The situation with licensing the Television and Radio Company by the National Television and Radio Council heated up again recently. It all started with the latest round of steps taken to “clarify...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Kuchma Orders National Council to Act Openly and Transparently

On April 18, President Leonid Kuchma has called on the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council to strictly observe constitutional norms, acting openly and transparently exclusively within...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Who was Lenin?

Figures of Lenin’s might do not leave hardly anyone indifferent. Anyone, no matter what his attitude toward the number one communist of the twentieth century, has his own vision of this grandiose...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Slavutych specialists are busily learning foreign languages

Slavutych, the city of energy workers, is now in a state of uncertainty, Mayor Volodymyr Udovychenko told a press conference on April 18. He said this was caused by the fact that after the closure of...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

STANDING IN LINE FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION

I ndependent Ukraine’s diplomacy, judging by what Minister of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Zlenko said at the April 19 conference on Ukrainian Foreign Policy and Diplomacy During Ten Years of Independence...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Ukraine and Hungary to Jointly Combat Visas and Floods

“We view Ukraine as an exceptional partner, and our relations should be further deepened,” Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs J ` anos Martonyi told an April 18 press conference. Mr. Martonyi was...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

“Ukraine will not be isolated from decisions adopted by the EU”

The European Council Secretary General and EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier SOLANA when interviewed by The Day carefully refrained from giving appraisals of the...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Geopolitical Asylum for Ukraine

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher has confirmed that the US Immigration and Naturalization Service had granted political asylum to former state security officer Mykola Melnychenko and...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

This week in history

April 24: 1735. A Russian imperial ukase legally strengthened property inequality among Cossacks of the Ukrainian Hetmanate by dividing them into the select and subalterns. 1949. The State...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

The Local Teacher’s Calling

I was struck reading the interview with Halyna Triakina, the dedicated schoolteacher from Luhansk (Ukraine’s easternmost and most Russified) oblast, who with the help of such Ukrainian national...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

Ukraine and CE Play Game of Being Sensible

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) begins this month’s part of its annual session today in Strasbourg. The Ukrainian theme will, or is at least planned to, sound on three...
24.04.2001 - 00:00

“Criminal bosses will be behind bars”

As the Internal Affairs Ministry public relations center reported on April 18, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Smyrnov guarantees that most underworld bosses will be taken into custody...

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