№16, (2001)
29.05.2001 - 00:00
World Bank probes new cabinet’ s credit history
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,...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Musical Envoy From the Eighteenth Century
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...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Real Sequester Instead of Real Budget
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...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Project Absolute Center
Judging by everything, a new parliamentary faction might be born. Its creation is being explained by the necessity to regroup forces in the Center, for the Right is said to be too opposition-minded....
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Humiliation
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...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
The state gives state deeds to private property in land at the village of Yasnozirya on May 22
The land was accurately divided according to the topographic and geodesic maps. The first 24 farmers from the village of Yasnozirya were handed state documents giving the right to private property in...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
The law enforcers’ catch in the course of an anticorruption campaign turned out mostly deputies of village councils and low ranking officials
Under the program of cooperation between OSCE and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, the first of five international workshop seminars under the general rubric of Anticorruption Investigations...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Tax Vacation for 600,000 Voters
There was a popular saying in the times of stagnation: “What one looks after, one has.” Now it could be paraphrased as, “What one looks after is the object of reforms.” The groups Regions of Ukraine...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Kyiv Opera Star Visits Home Stage
Roman Maiboroda, People’s Artist of Ukraine, soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine, winner of international contests, marked the thirtieth anniversary of his operatic career with a gala concert...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Yesterday’s Myths of the Eastern Slavs
On the last day of May a congress of Slavic nations will open in Moscow. The presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are invited. The main objective is “the intensification of economic and...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Youth Is Growing Up Faster Than the Country
What topics are the most pressing for Ukrainian students? How do they solve them? How do they feel about the current realities? The Day polled Kiev- Mohyla Academy National University students in...
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In terms of its negative impact on business, low demand on the domestic market is comparable to corruption and administrative pressure
The results of a study called Ukraine’s enterprises in 2000 (with 2150 managers polled) conducted by the International Financial Corporation with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
KINAKH’S CHANCES
UAIE President Anatoly Kinakh’s candidacy as Ukraine’s next premier was submitted to parliament on May 23. Most people’s deputies regarded an immediate vote as improper, and it was decided to do so...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
Zherdytsky Held Without Bail
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has added to its list of charges against Viktor Zherdytsky, former president of Hradobank, currently under arrest in Germany pending trial. Meanwhile the...
29.05.2001 - 00:00
AND THROUGH THE AGES FLOWS THE OREL
(concluded from the previous issue)
A unique eighteenth century architectural ensemble of the Orel area is a group of Cossack churches in Kytaihorod. Built in 1754- 1757 by northern...