№19, (2000)

Myroslav POPOVYCH, philosopher, Corresponding Member, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine: “During Bill Clinton’s presidency Ukraine has had a remarkable opportunity to play an independent role...

To protest against governmental crackdown and the politico-economic atmosphere in which free press vanishes, about a hundred Odesa journalists and militants of the Odesa Memorial society picketed the...

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 Day ’s traditional photo exhibitions have already been held, besides Kyiv, in Sumy, Lviv, Luhansk, and Nizhyn. On June 2 an exhibition of the best photos sent to the...

The fate of the Lutsk Automobile Plant (LuAZ) has at last been sealed after its controlling shares were bought by Ukrprominvest a few months ago. LuAZ has thus far acquired such vital partners as the...

Last Thursday, voting day in Parliament, the Cabinet bill to privatize the open joint stock company Ukrtelekom was voted down again. This time the document was put to vote twice and each time the...

Premier Viktor Yushchenko, addressing the MP group Working Ukraine (Trudova Ukraina), said one of the reasons for higher bread prices was an extra profit made by grain traders using state budget GDP...

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...

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...

The principal question Ukraine faces at the turn of the century is whether it is able to draw itself out of the backwater of global development and become a competitive world-level player....

  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...

This is a unique example, for the cheated companies are not present in Ukraine, nor do they delegate their rights to local firms. Why squander money on legal defense if it is easier to call the whole...

Viktor PYNZENYK , MP, member of the tax and customs policy subcommittee of the VR finance and banking committee: I think that just an enactment legalizing shadow capital will not suffice unless...

An audit of the Black Sea Steamship Company (Ukr. abbr. ChMP) estimates its foreign debts at $95 million and internal ones at UAH 220 million, Minister of Transport Leonid Kostiuchenko said at a...

    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...