№35, (2004)
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A Glaring Blot
In its final match of the Champions League group tournament, Dynamo Kyiv suffered a humiliating 0:3 defeat from Bayern Leverkusen of Germany. Not only has this defeat eliminated the Kyivans from...
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Information Breakthrough
The crisis is over, to use the medical parlance. Slowly but surely, life is returning to normal. As Independence Square has emptied, the television receiver is no longer the focus of family life. Not...
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The Morning After the Revolution
Many found last week’s consensus in Ukrainian parliament astonishing. An overwhelming constitutional majority of 402 lawmakers backed a package of electoral and constitutional amendments. On the...
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Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz:
Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz, in an interview with Ukrainian journalists after the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, looked more optimistic than during his previous visits to Kyiv....
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Human Rights: Festive and Humdrum Days
Last Friday the world observed Human Rights Day. Had this day been marked a month before, we would have again been spouting the same old story about endless human rights abuses, a subject that has...
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This week in history
December 14. 1918. Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine abdicated power in favor of the Directory. 1943. Soviet troops took the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy from the Germans. December 15. 1896. The...
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Festival of Triumph
Last Thursday the final gala concert of the Colors of Hope Festival, organized by the Kyiv City Center of Youth Social Services, was held in Kyiv. The gala presented the winners of district-level...
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The Inflation Tax
The National Bank of Ukraine’s Board, a constitutional body that shapes this country’s fiscal policy, was in session last Friday for the second time in the first ten days of December. This supposedly...
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Compromise: Harmful or Healthy?
The United States and the European Union have welcomed the Ukrainian Parliament’s resolutions aimed at ending the political crisis that was triggered by the rigged runoff election. U.S. Secretary of...
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The Last Hero
Last Thursday evening it was announced that President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine signed a decree to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine and the Order of State to Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr...
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Irreconcilable Reactions
As politicians throughout the world continue to comment on the election crisis in Ukraine, Moscow continues to pollute the information space with disapproving remarks directed at the Ukrainian...
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Byzantine Eagle, Symbol of “Orange” Revolutions
“Help me, oh Roman Eagle Who branded my shackled ancestors!” Yevhen Malaniuk The orange revolution, as a spontaneous movement of the middle class and bourgeoisie, is drawing to a close. Elements of...
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“Why should Turkey join United Europe ahead of Ukraine?”
The Day’s correspondent interviewed Horst Kachele, a professor at the University of Ulm and world famous psychoanalyst, Victor Kann, co-chairman of the Adlerian Psychology Association of Austria, and...
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Iraq’s Silent Dead
Evidence is mounting that America’s war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of civilian Iraqis, and perhaps well over one hundred thousand. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United...