№29, (2001)

October 17 witnessed two events at practically at the same place, which only seemed unconnected. A session took place in parliament and Crimean Tatars staged a meeting in front of the Supreme Council...

On October 15 the Lower Saxony State Court in Hildesheim, Germany, resumed hearings of the criminal case against Viktor Zherdytsky and Ihor Didenko, a former top executive of Naftohaz Ukrayiny. Mr....

REFERENCE “Kamyanets-Podilsky, a town of oblast rank in Khmelnytsky oblast, a district center. Located on the banks of the river Smotrych (Dnister tributary). Founded in the eleventh or twelfth...

The American-British military operation in Afghanistan and the Russian plane crash over the Black Sea are two absolutely different and absolutely far from equivalent events that have in common only...

On October 17 the likelihood of passing the restated elections bill, returned to parliament by the president, remained low. It was only after the leaders of ten factions and group met with Leonid...

There are many things, processes, habits, and traditions in our contemporary life that extend their roots deep into the far past. Moreover, it is often known with certainty that they emerged long ago...

The European choice is gradually becoming a sacral question for Ukraine. Unfortunately, it increasingly resembles the dogmatic slogans of the Soviet leadership, such as “We stand for universal peace...

The challenges of new times, of the new millennium, have made it necessary for every state to reconsider its concept of national security, Yevhen Marchuk, Secretary of the National Security and...

Beaten by Liverpool at home, Dynamo Kyiv retains a purely theoretical chance to continue playing in the Champions League and European cups in general. There are still some options left, but it will...

Socialist Party Chairman Oleksandr Moroz has proposed to the leaders of other political parties and coalitions the creation of a single election bloc to change Ukraine’s political system into a...

Newspaper publications inevitably draw a wide circle of readers, even those with openly declared or purposefully concealed social denial. A typical example could be the article “Huckersterish...

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who visited the Russian capital to inaugurate the Days of Polish Science, looked pleased. And no wonder, for it was for the first time in many years that he...

On October 17, Verkhovna Rada considered in the first reading the 2002 budget bill. “The government-submitted draft 2002 state budget is not sufficiently transparent. The document reveals...

Unfortunately, the notion of museums in Ukraine calls up sad associations: dry routine, boredom, lack of funds, and the resultant absence of ideas. There are exceptions, of course, as in the case...

The 2002 parliamentary campaign will be the hardest ever, primarily for the electorate as information will flood in; people will hear about deals and compromises, vague old and new party structures;...