№32, (2000)
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Swimming Trunks on the Cross
There is a popular Lake Verbne in Kyiv’s Obolon district. In the summertime, its beaches draw thousands who lie on the dirty sand for hours on end, melting from the heat and munching down God knows...
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Who Was Behind Attempt on Vitrenko Not Named
The Monday before last the hearing of the case concerning PSPU (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine) leader Natalia Vitrenko assasination attempt during her unsuccessful election bid opened in...
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This week in history
November 14: 1925. The League of Ukrainian Nationalists was founded in Podebrady (Czechoslovakia).
1939 . The Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR ratified the law On Western Ukraine’s Entering...
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United Social Democrats: We Are Not an Olympic Party
“We need only victory in the 2002 parliamentary elections,” SDPU(o) leader Viktor Medvedchuk said addressing a session of the party’s political council. According to Mr. Medvedchuk, in the...
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Yevhen MARCHUK: “Normalization of our relations with Russia will promote Ukraine’s integration into European structures”
The visit of Yevhen Marchuk, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (RNBOU), to Brussels, which ended on November 9, focused on perhaps the most burning issues Ukraine...
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America Entertains Ukraine
Like the rest of the world, Ukraine is laughing at the spectacle of the American Presidential elections and how a relative handful of voters in Florida will decide who will be the leader of the world...
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
There is a tradition of public servility in Ukrainian society: what do you think are the roots and the remedies for this illness?
Leonid KRAVCHUK:
Turning to Ukraine’s history, one can...
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Prodi Promises to Plug In Ukraine
President of the European Commission Romano Prodi has paid an official visit to Kyiv. The Eurocommission president’s visit was only discussed within the context of a joint project by Russia’s Gazprom...
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Daewoo sinks, but AvtoZAZ must survive
Being threatened with unemployment, South Korean workers would hardly envy almost 9,000 of their Ukrainian colleagues from AvtoZAZ who get paid a mere two-thirds of their wages for forced idleness (...
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Ukraine in the eyes of foreign travelers from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries
Every culturally developed nation has and respects its legends pleasant to the ear about its past. Many human generations have accumulated a wealth of historical facts, events, and occurrences to...
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Sociologist discusses the transition from totalitarianism to civil society
(Concluded from previous issue)
WE’LL HAVE NO PLACE IN EUROPE, UNLESS WE LEARN TO FIRE PEOPLE IN ONE DAY
The Day: Are there many people in Ukraine wishing to acquire property or to work for a...
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Feline Fete
The International Cat Show held by the Ukrainian Cat Fanciers’ Association gathered as usual feline representatives from Lutsk to Simferopol. In addition to such large cities as Dnipropetrovsk,...
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UEFA Demands Transparent Bookkeeping in Soccer Clubs
The funding of Ukrainian clubs is for some reason considered an issue closed to discussion, with club bosses, coaches and team players mainly referring to euphemisms in talks about money. Should one...
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Manchester United 1, Dynamo Kyiv 0
At first glance, the way Dynamo played made a good impression. Our side handled the ball without undue haste or fuss. Yet, they failed to break through the defense. They could only do so by means of...
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Shakhtar Stays in Europe
London’s Arsenal, which arrived in Donetsk for the final match in the Champions League group tournament, brought a far from adequate arsenal. In fact, this was common knowledge. The point is not that...