№2, (2004)
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Make Your Game, NBU Says to Foreigners, but Not All Agree to Play
It is too early to open foreign bank branches in Ukraine. This is the main idea of the address of Oleksandr Suhoniako, president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB), to people’s deputies of...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Centennial of Big Bell Tower’s Clock
A century ago a new clock was installed on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Big Bell Tower, the fourth since it was constructed. The today’s Big Bell Tower, which is 96.5 meters high, was erected in 1731-1744...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
How Much Does Happiness Cost?
Money can buy you happiness, and it costs $4.8 million, researchers claim. An average person needs $4,817,616 to have a car and dream house along with ideal holidays, and adopt the way of life one...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
MY ITALY
I will not conceal that this article’s headline is patterned after My Japan, the title of a book by the well-known Russian writer, poet, and artist (his facets are innumerable) Dmitry Prigov. Prigov...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Noble tradition revived by Kyiv people of the arts
It seems that a very interesting form of intellectual leisure is being revived in Kyiv that had been forgotten since almost eighty years ago. The weekend before last all visitors of the DAKH (Roof)...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Father of Psychological Warfare
Military intellectuals have finally become convinced at the turn of the third millennium that the most effective weapon to fight the enemy is so-called psychological and informational warfare. Yet,...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
An original group appeared on our stage, the Briats-band
On New Year’s Eve my friends gave me an unexpected present, inviting me to a concert of a group with the unfamiliar and in a way frivolous name of Briats-band [Strum band]. This seemed strange to me...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
65 dancers, two truckloads of stage props, and “Soviet” ballet
On January 15-17 the National Opera of Ukraine hosted the Japanese troupe Ballet Chambre West. The tour was organized by the firm Antrepriza and the Japanese performers came with their production...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
On how the celebrated Russian ballet troupe solves creative and financial problems
The Year of Russia in Ukraine is over and the finale was marked by a magnificent performance of the Bolshoi’s Swan Lake at Ukraine’s National Opera. Russia’s number one company appeared in Kyiv after...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Two codes contradict each other
As of January 1, 2004, new Civil and Economic Codes have taken effect in Ukraine, leaving lawyers, economists, and businessmen confused. How should one use two codes of equal legal effect that...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Crimea expected to accommodate more foreign tourists
Various agencies at the Crimean Council of Ministers assess the results of the 2003 resort season differently. Crimean Economy Minister Volodymyr Kulish noted at a cabinet meeting in October that “...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
“Open Up, It’s the Border Guards!”
On a serene Volyn evening, as the village was preparing to turn in for the night, an unusually big crowd of masked law enforcement officers gathered near the Village Council, a nearby garage their...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Father Borys Gudziak on twentieth century tragedies as reasons for the religious boom and international cooperation
What follows is an interview with Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D. and rector of the Lviv branch of the Ukrainian Catholic University of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. A graduate of Syracuse and...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
Kyiv to Have Monument to the Victims of the Totalitarian Epoch
The State Historical cum Memorial Complex dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor Manmade Famine, political repression, and forced deportation will be ready to receive its first visitors in late...
20.01.2004 - 00:00
The government has charted a program to protect the island
Crimean Vice Premier Hennady Babenko told journalists that the interdepartmental Tuzla coast protection commission set up on instructions of Crimean Premier Serhiy Kunitsyn in the heat of the...
