№2, (2001)

On the eve of Epiphany frosts (Epiphany is celebrated on 19 January according to the Julian calendar, and it was not improbable that, despite forecasts of warm weather, we in fact got a light frost...

On January 7 Britain’s ITV channel showed the film SS in Great Britain about the SS Galicia division. Why has this picture come up precisely now? This question was also raised at a Kyiv press...

Ukraine has launched a three-year program to extend microloans to small businesses and social programs via credit unions. To implement this, the Open Society Institute, a George Soros Foundation, is...

Already the first pronouncements of the new American president make it possible to come to a simple conclusion: his Russian policy will be different from his predecessor’s. And different to the...

A decade ago the Persian Gulf War was underway, a military operation of the USA and their allies against Iraq. It was precisely ten years ago when it became possible to talk of the beginning of the...

As announced by the Apostolic Nunciature in Kyiv, the schedule for Pope John Paul II visit has been slightly changed: the trip will start on June 23 and end on June 27, 2001. This became known after...

The Ukrainian government should apply the bankruptcy procedure more actively in 2001 to illiquid enterprises and simultaneously strengthen the protection of property rights in this country. This...

A hearing on the problem of mass media freedom in Ukraine is slated for Thursday, January 25 in the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council. According to the preliminary agenda of the PACE...

President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine ordered on January 19 the dismissal of Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko on the grounds that a legal action has been taken against her by decision of the Prosecutor...

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (STAU) have told journalists a passionate story of the death of what once was one of Ukraine’s leading banks. What drew...

Without being afraid of boring the reader, I repeat an old maxim: our problem, in my opinion, is that we have changed the notion of the freedom of expression into such an imperative, an object of...

The sixth “very promising” session of Verkhovna Rada is over. At its beginning, it was stated that it would be the session of codes: the deputies placed on the agenda the adoption of Civil, Criminal...

On January 16 during his annual meeting with heads of diplomatic representatives accredited to Ukraine, President Leonid Kuchma made a series of fundamental statements. Ukraine’s foreign policy...

On January 22, 1918, the Ukrainian Central Rada proclaimed the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) “sovereign and independent,” while a year later the newborn West Ukrainian National (the Socialists...

The current political indifference in our society has surprised even sociologists who have been polling public opinion for many years and can forecast, to a certain extent, various popular reactions...