№19, (2000)

Kyiv Day is when you do not just walk in the street but do so loving this street, the houses and trees lining it, and the people walking past. You love them because finally you have the time to...

Russia and the U.S. have signed a memorandum to establish a Joint Shared Early Warning Center in Moscow. This was done to build up confidence between the superpowers and allay fears that a technical...

ICPS experts believe GDP will increase 2% in 2000 and 3% in 2001, the main increment factors being macroeconomic stability, better market demand and domestic output. A rational taxation policy...

The extended conference on the fuel-and-energy complex, held last Thursday with President Leonid Kuchma chairing, can be undoubtedly called the culmination of the energy situation in Ukraine. The...

Journalists writing about the U.S. President’s farewell visit to Moscow are in a difficult situation. On the one hand, they are fed cheerful dispatches from U.S. news agencies and official...

  SINCE THE TIMES OF ASKOLD Who founded this city in the confluence of the rivers Kamianka and Teteriv, whence the resounding name? Hypotheses and versions were and still are the...

Brisk trade in compact discs on the streets and markets of our cities is directly connected with the international scandal now erupting around Ukraine. CDs with the proud label “Made in Ukraine”...

To tell the truth, the President did not spare the vainglory of even a single fuel-and-energy executive. He outlined more clearly the functions of Naftohaz Ukrainy and stressed it was not its...

The quiet miniature public garden in front of the Ivan Franko Theater became a small mecca on Kyiv Day, as a statue of a wonderful man, People’s Artist of Ukraine Mykola Yakovchenko was unveiled...

The probable expansion of the European Union to several dozens of countries make the Eurobureaucrats and governments to think even now about its future institutional structure. The extremes are in...

Parliament remitted for revision last Thursday the budget resolution determining the 2001 budget guidelines as proposed by the President. It was actually the first step in wrecking the budget-...

I was not sure about my bearings in Lviv, so on my way from the hotel to the Tsisarska Kava [Caesar’s Coffee] Cafe, where the late Ihor Bilozir had met with his friends May 8, I memorized notices on...

The European Union has promptly reacted to the President of Ukraine’s statement that the Chorobyl nuclear power plant will be shut down before December 15, 2000. Official representative of the...

    This joint Ukrainian-Hungarian-German project was carried out by the National Opera of Ukraine with German stage director Michael HКnzel. The Opera lent costumes for three...

U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Steven PIFER said last Wednesday at a press conference in Kyiv that Washington would not cease to “solve the problems” of helping Ukraine overcome difficulties related to...