№34, (2000)
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Kyiv Stars Take Bronze
The week before last, Baku hosted the second international journalist soccer tournament. The first, held last year in St. Petersburg, saw the Ukraine’s Kyiv Stars finish fifth. This time, the Kyiv...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Demonstration Diplomacy For Domestic Consumption
On November 24, representatives of Rukh (Kostenko), the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN), the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Fraternity, and Independent Ukraine picketed the Russian Embassy in...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
In S. B. Krymsky’s new book
Over a hundred years ago Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that previously the philosophers had something to say; now they speak about something. This inference has more to do with our times than it did with...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Facing Past Suffering
On Friday evening an artistic soiree and a day long conference on Saturday were held to mark Ukraine’s greatest tragedy, the Manmade Famine of 1932-33, what Ukrainians call Holodomor, a term...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
HOW FAR DOES THE BUDGET LAG BEHIND THE PEOPLE?
I propose the readers turn their attention to what are in fact the notes I made in the margins of documents I had to work on recently: the draft budget, program of social and economic development for...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Moscow forms permanent alert army group in the southwestern direction
On November 20 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military command to form and fully deploy two powerful permanent alert army groups in the southwestern and Central Asian directions...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Ukraine and Latvia Reexamine Common Roots
The Latvia-Ukraine: Friendship Through Centuries exhibition of book illustrations has opened at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. Over 500 exhibits from funds of the Latvian Academic Library...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Day of Sorrow Marked At German Cemetery
“It is of high importance to at least once a year remind society about those who perished in the war and to honor their memory”, German Ambassador to Ukraine Dietmar St Я demann told The Day. On the...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Trudova Ukrayina (Labor Ukraine) Proclaims Intent to Take Power
The second, extraordinary, congress of the six-months-old Ukrainian Labor has again confirmed adherence of this party to the “roof-to-floor” building pattern. On the Saturday before last, Trudova...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Bypass Pipeline Outlines Already Visible
Ukraine has never opposed the construction of an additional gas pipeline bypassing its territory, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said during his visit to Turkey. He also reiterated that “Ukraine...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
17 STEPS TO ECONOMIC CAPTIVITY
The level of economic freedom in Ukraine has dropped sharply in 2000, as evidenced by the Heritage Foundation report carried recently by The Wall Street Journal . The organization’s annual Economic...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Thinking European Needs Defining
“We must learn to think in the European way not only in Brussels,” the President of Ukraine stated the week before last.
To learn the European way of thinking one should obviously agree upon the...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Endless Race
Ihor Pylypchuk’s Marathon is the title of a new documentary released by the Kontakt Studios jointly with 1+1. It premiered recently at the House of Cinematographers. Like other productions of the Our...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
Oleksandr Lavrynovych stresses the necessity of changing the status of investigation commissions
People’s Deputy Oleksandr Lavrynovych during his report in parliament on the work of the temporary parliamentary commission on the disappearance of journalist Heorhy Gongadze stressed the need to...
28.11.2000 - 00:00
New Centrism with a Difficult Name
On November 18 Kyiv hosted the unifying congress of the Labor Solidarity of Ukraine Party incorporating five centrist parties: the Regional Revival Party, Party of Labor, Ukrainian Solidarity Party,...