№33, (2000)
21.11.2000 - 00:00
A new company has 63 days to get ten pieces of paper and give up a third of its yearly income
According to research on the status of small business in Ukraine carried out by the International Financial Corporation, in 1999 an average of eleven calendar days were necessary in order to get...
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Leonid Kuchma makes strategic statements on the anniversary of his election
On November 17, President Kuchma made a number of high- profile statements on the vital issues of Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy, addressing a conference called Ukraine On the Threshold of the...
21.11.2000 - 00:00
Mystery Remains in Gongadze Disappearance
The human remains found November 3 near Tarashcha, Kyiv oblast, which some eyewitness journalists claim may be those of Heorhy Gongadze, provoked events without precedent. As all the electronic media...
21.11.2000 - 00:00
Chornobyl Compromise: First Steps by the West
President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Jean Lemierre, signed last Wednesday a recommendation for the EBRD Board of Governors to appropriate $215 million for the...
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This week in history
November 21: 1943. OUN (Bandera) and UPA held a conference of the captive nations of Europe and Asia in Volyn in order to create the anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations.
1996. The President of Ukraine...
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Ukrainian Piloted Plane Crashes Again in Angola
An An-24 plane, chartered by the Asa Pesada Company, crashed last Wednesday in Angola immediately after takeoff at the Luanda Airport. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine quotes the Russian Federation...
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They Agreed to Agree
The results of the negotiations held in Moscow last Friday between Ukrainian and Russian Prime Ministers Viktor Yushchenko and Mikhail Kasianov were harshly received by the Ukrainian mass media. The...
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Welcome, Ambassador
As an American it is always pleasant for me to welcome a new US ambassador, and Ambassador Carlos Pascual’s interview, couched, of course, in the proper diplomatic language, says precisely the right...
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Carlos PASCUAL: “It doesn’t so much matter what the US government thinks about Ukraine, but what the business community thinks”
The US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine Carlos Pascual assumed his duties at a time when the administration in the White House is changing, when Ukraine itself is experiencing...
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Triangular Wheel, Or Geopolitics Ukrainian Style
Much has been written of late about the West-Ukraine-Russia triangle. Ukraine, it seems, is viewed as a kind of a bridge between the cult of total success and the mysterious Russian soul, something...
21.11.2000 - 00:00
Yevhen MARCHUK: “Money flows toward freedom”
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk believes the political elites of both countries are getting rid of their big and little brother complexes
“Mr....
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Two years on end the victims of an inexplicable poisoning in the village of Khomutets are denied help
Last week in Kyiv Poltava Media Club representatives held a press conference, at which the information on 48 children poisoned in the village of Khomutets, Poltava oblast, was disclosed. They all...
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Viktor Pynzenyk Stepping Up Fight Against Unnamed Oligarchs
The November 14 press conference of the Reforms and Order Party (PRP) under the motto of “Oligarchs versus the government, nine months of antagonism in the fight for reforms” was fated to intrigue...
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The Eternal Jew
Russian prosecutor general’s office has resumed its hunt for media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky. The chief the of Media-Most holding company and president of the Russian Jewish Congress will now be...
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EBRD Forecasts Growth In Eastern Europe
Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are set to achieve growth this year of almost 5%, the highest rate since the breakup of the Soviet Union, according to...