№16, (2001)

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...

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...

Ukraine can and must take a fundamentally new step in combating illegal migration, Colonel General Pavlo Shysholin, deputy chairman of Derzhkomkordon (State Committee for Border Security), declared...

Ukraine’s strategic aviation has come to an end. In Uzyn Kyiv oblast, under a Ukrainian and US defense agreement on the removal of Tu-160, Tu- 95 planes, and cruise missiles of air basing X-55, the...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

A monument to Oles Honchar (1918-1995), a famous Ukrainian writer and public figure, was unveiled last Saturday in a public garden on the crossing of Vassili Chapayev and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky...

The Day: What do you see as the new cabinet’s guidelines? A. K.: We should not point an accusing finger at the previous cabinet and say that we are correcting its mistakes. This will get us...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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),...