№22, (2001)

Globalization is perhaps the most popular word among the world political elite. Some are pinning great hopes on it as a panacea for various economic malfunctions. Others, antiglobalists, utterly hate...

Addressing a meeting on the 2002 state budget bill on August 29, the president spelled out three main prerequisites to strengthen macroeconomic stability in this country. They are: formation of a “...

Doctors and medical researchers often give patients a treatment that looks like the real thing, but is in fact a fake. Such treatments called placebos are applied in two situations. They are used in...

The council of the Ukraine XXI Century Foundation for Intellectual Cooperation headed by People’s Deputy Bohdan Hubsky has recently made known the names of this year’s Vernadsky award laureates and...

Saint Augustine wrote in the fourth century that time is contained in human consciousness which is waiting, understanding, and remembering. At times it seems that we Ukrainians are a people ill...

The head of the parliamentary ad hoc commission investigating the disappearance of journalist Heorhy Gongadze, Oleksandr Lavrynovych, who has been recently appointed state secretary of Ukraine’s...

The State Property Fund has managed to thwart a bold attempt at shadow privatization by laundering state-owned shares in the Zaporizhstal Steel Plant, one of this country’s largest enterprises. “The...

The new criminal code came into effect September 1. The importance of its enactment matches that of the constitution. Ukraine existed without the latter for five years and actually ten years without...

It is far from a natural phenomenon when several heads rest on one neck. This was approximately the way many observers assessed our new government whose ministries have been led lately by both...

Viktor MEDVEDCHUK, First Vice Speaker of Verkhovna Rada: I think that we have succeeded in reorienting the traditional Soviet legislative system toward other priorities and values over the past...

The tenth anniversary of Ukrainian independence marked on August 24 is no reason for complacency. Although we continue to refer to our state as young — by force of habit perhaps — the time might well...

On August 23 Kyiv Pechersk local court judge Y. H. Ivanenko adjured the weekly 2000 to refrain from further publication of an article about Damian Bank managers whom a Swiss court found guilty 13...

An exhibition of Crimean watercolorists is being currently held in the exhibit hall of the Ukrainian Culture Fund, organized by the UCF and the Crimean League of Watercolorists. Most likely, the...

Ukraine cannot remember an ambassador like this. One must rack his or her brains to recall if there was another foreign ambassador accredited in Ukraine who enjoyed the same popularity and love among...

August 2001. Here he sits before me, a fugitive from slavery without legs. He is in an invalid in a wheelchair under a high tree in one of the shelters in Khmelnytsky, a miserable middle-aged cripple...