Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№34, (2000)

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...
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No-Shows

Very few people gathered to mark the second anniversary of the assassination of renowned Russian politician Galina Starovoitova at her grave in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. There were almost no...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Now the EU is Balkanizing the Balkans

Residents of the sleepy town of Schengen, near Luxembourg’s border with France and Germany, would marvel at the hatred in which their hometown is held across Eastern Europe. For the freedom of...
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Political Culture of Poor and Patriots

The Dialogue Political Club held a regular session recently, with the philosopher Myroslav Popovych and political scientist Volodymyr Polokhalo (both well known in their fields) discussing two topics...
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Ukraine-Turkey: Trust Above All

Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Ahmet Necdet Sezer have met. The two presidents agreed to increase trade turnover between Ukraine and Turkey to $2 billion and decided it necessary to develop...
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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...
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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...
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IN MEMORY OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY

November 25 was the Day of the Memory of Victims of the Holodomor Famine and Political Repression. Under the presidential decree of October 31, 2000, this event is to be commemorated every fourth...
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Government: Information War or Deserved Criticism?

“In your opinion, is the present criticism of the government by many media outlets a sign of information war (as the recent Rukh statement has it) or an indication of political pluralism?” Heorhy...
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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...
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President submits two bills to Parliament: on the majority and parliamentary immunity

President Kuchma signed and forwarded to Verkhovna Rada two bills concerning the implementation of the last referendum, Press Secretary Oleksandr Martynenko told journalists last Wednesday in Ankara...
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This week in history

November 28: 1921. The Ukrainian SSR joined the International Red Cross Convention. 1994. The first sitting of the Constitutional Commission officially renewed the constitutional process in...

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