№16, (2001)

The Socialist Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) has opted for basing the next budget on a new tax system, demanding the government urgently reduce the corporate and individual income taxes along...

The statements made by Yuri Smyrnov, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Mykhailo Potebenko, Prosecutor General, in Verkhovna Rada last Friday added new touches to the Gongadze case. First, inside the...

In May last year the best Donetskoblenerho power grids were impounded following a lawsuit filed by a creditor and, a month later, were auctioned off by tacit consent of energy lords and the...

For all the complexities and difficulties in human life that demand courage, I have always considered myself a person lucky with my biography. This is not so much because my family life is...

Not so long ago the capital’s book journalist community witnessed a funny event. It could be described as a scandal and heated debate at the same time. The newspaper Literatura Plus, published...

President Vladimir Voronin of Moldova has suggested that the Russian Federation be invited as observer to the GUUAM summit to be held June 6- 7 in Yalta, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova...

Vladimir Kadannikov, elected chairman of the ZALK board the week before last, proposed that the work’s former manager Ivan Bastryha be appointed chairman of the board. Yet, he set a number of...

May 29: 1738. An imperial Russian ukase was issued forbidding the Cossacks and peasants of Slobozhanshchyna (the eastern rim of Ukraine never under Poland-Lithuania) to join the Hetmanate and Russia...

I was extremely gratified to read the opinions of Kiev-Mohyla Academy students expressed in a poll conducted by this newspaper. Since my courses are compulsory for all political science majors, among...

Bad news is all the IMF has been getting in the last year. First came a divisive fight over naming a new Managing Director: Germany pushed a little known and unqualified bureaucrat and failed to have...

It is highly probable that the German Bundestag will approve as early as next week a bill that will make it possible to start paying compensation to former Ostarbeiteren (wartime slave laborers),...

The National House of Organ and Chamber Music hosted a concert featuring works by the noted French composer Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). It was organized at the initiative of People’s Artiste of...

The visit to Kyiv of World Bank Director for Ukraine and Belarus Luca Barbone has ended. He was here to familiarize himself with how Ukraine is meeting the guidelines of the Program Systemic Loan,...

Kyiv-Warsaw. The man in the street shows a rather abstract attitude toward how those abroad rate the quality of life in his country. Thus, we are not overly concerned about Ukraine being listed among...

The Ukrainian cabinet studied the possibility of sequestering budget expenditures in 2001 as per nine months of the current year, Vice Premier Yuri Yekhanurov announced after the cabinet met...