№29, (2000)

October 17 marked the International Day of Combating Poverty. Ella Libanova, an economics Ph.D. and department head in the National Academy of Sciences Center to Study the Productive Forces, told The...

The latest news from the Middle East is that, after the Sharm el Sheikh summit in Egypt between Israeli Premier Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, the situation has not shown any radical...

The idea of peacekeeping is becoming more and more popular in Ukraine as a relatively safe and effective way to improve the state’s image in the eyes of the world community and simultaneously to...

What will come of the budget bill is still anyone’s guess. Speaker Ivan Pliushch said on October 19 that the vote was adjourned until November 2 because of a great many critical remarks and proposals...

October 24: 1949. Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian writer, was killed in Lviv. 1991. Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada ratified the Declaration on Ukraine’s Non-Nuclear Status. October 25: 1848. The Galician...

My Polish mother-in-law recalls being shipped off to Germany during the war in less than horrifying hues, but slave labor is, after all, a less than pleasant experience. And Germany, despite the...

President Kuchma accused the Cabinet on October 19 of failing to take proper steps to help implement Ukraine’s gas delivery accords with Turkmenistan and Russia. He went on to remind his listeners...

The World Bank’s financial sector mission has completed work in Kyiv. After two WB tranches of $40 million and $30 million, respectively, provided in support of the Ukrainian mining industry, this...

The situation that emerged on October 9 in Hanover, where People’s Deputy Viktor Zherdytsky, was detained, cannot be called ordinary not only because again, like in the Lazarenko case, Western law...

Yevhen Marchuk’s concept laid down in his article, “Sociopolis as Model of a Future Society,” (The Day, September 5, 2000) maintains that Ukraine is embarking on the road leading to civilized...

The creation of the Eurasian Economic Community, founded last week in Astana, was not and could be not a bomb that exploded at the least expected moment. Discussions over the creation of such an...

The Ukrainian-Russian summit held last week in Sochi resulted, as Russian President Vladimir Putin put it, in consensus, and the decisions adopted completely satisfy Russia. The arrangements reached...

Macedonia knows Balkan markets very well. Its specialists have both experience and connections, which could very well lead to participation, jointly with Ukrainian companies, in the restoration of...

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Policy, Managing the Nation’s Economy, Property and Investment Oleksiy Kostusiev has announced that his committee considers it necessary to...

Ukraine will attempt to show the rest of the world its trump in the great oil game this week, the Ukrainian sector of the Eurasian oil pipeline. Kyiv will host a presentation of the Odesa-Brody...