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23.05.2000 - 00:00

Serhiy Rebrov Becomes a Daredevil

The English club, Tottenham Hotspur, has concluded a five-year contract with Kyiv Dynamo striker Serhiy Rebrov who was also sought by Arsenal, the Glasgow Rangers, and Milan. The deal was preceded by...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

After all, Ukraine Is a European Country

Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policies should be oriented toward the West, toward Europe and the United States. To orient toward Russia would be to doom the Ukrainians to eternal poverty, dependence...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

NATO Supports Ukrainian Stand on Kosovo

The headline quotes what Guido Venturoni, chief of the NATO military committee, said at a press conference after he had completed talks with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk. Admiral...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Will Ukraine get off with hand slap from IMF?

IMF First Deputy Managing Director Stanley Fischer does not rule out that Ukraine will have to pay off its IMF loans ahead of schedule as punishment for supplying the Fund with false information, the...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Bursting the Bubble

In the United States over the past 100 years, investments in stocks delivered an average 6% more than safe investments in short-term government securities. This differential has been quite stable...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Romanticism and Realities

“Long live the European federation!” was the leitmotif of the speech Joschka Fischer, German minister of foreign affairs at Berlin’s Humboldt University. Many were, to put it mildly, surprised with...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Longest-Playing Crimean Politician Doesn’ t Want Stability to Set in Without Him

Two ministers of the Crimean government, Finance Minister Liudmyla Denysova and Minister of the Agrarian Sector Mykola Orlovsky, were arrested on Wednesday May 10 on suspicion of corruption. The...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Return of the Native

May 18, Memorial Day for the Victims of Deportation, is a date that fills one with very sad memories. Stalin’s nationalities policy, several years after the 1944 deportation, resulted in the...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Ukraine Welcomes First State Visit of Austrian Federal President

On May 17-18 Thomas Klestil, President of the Federal Republic of Austria, made the first official visit by an Austrian head of state to Ukraine. During the course of the two day visit,...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

This week in history

May 23: 1917. The Central Rada adopted its First Universal proclaiming the sovereignty and autonomy of Ukraine. 1995. Ukraine and Latvia signed their Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation. May...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

MEMORIES OF GREAT HOPES

The Eksar Gallery has opened an exhibition of Iryna Pap’s photos, A History of Hopes: Ukraine, Kyiv, The Fifties and Sixties through the Eyes of an Outstanding Photo Correspondent. “The rank of...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

But it is also unfair to neutralize the referendum juridically

Verkhovna Rada has received sort of a time-out in the process of legislative confirmation of the referendum results. Having submitted two bills to the Constitutional Court (CC) and still awaiting...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Triumph of Hopelessness

St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev has won a landslide victory in the mayoral elections in Russia’s second capital: 73% of the electorate cast their votes for him, while his closest rival,...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

ON ECONOMIC AND MORAL ASPECTS OF THE BREAD QUESTION

The wave of bread price increases that has swept over the Ukrainian regions and reached Kyiv, as well as the ensuing events in the capital, give a certain cause for reflection. Indeed, the...
23.05.2000 - 00:00

Or how to transform energy debts into political image

Last Saturday, the Cabinet of Ministers intended again to make a decision on reforming the energy market. Moreover, First Vice Premier Yuri Yekhanurov seems to have been appointed to arbitrate an...

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