№36, (2003)
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Hurts? This Means We Are Living
Decades of lies and covering up have kept us from addressing this problem. What our social organism is going through today is like the condition of an individual who, having thawed out feels pins and...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Compensations Agreement Signed
An intergovernmental agreement was signed in Kyiv between Ukraine and Israel on settling the claims resulted from the TU-154 crash over the Black Sea in October 2001. The agreement specifying the...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Second only to the Japanese
Kiokushinkai karate occupies a special place among various Eastern martial arts and combats — not only because this is true contact battle karate, but also because of its official status, which is...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Commercials Free From Taboos
Creativity seems to be coming into vogue, regardless of whether you have it in your head or in your hair, for which reason the ladies and youths that walked the length of the catwalk in Kyiv’s...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
In search of a social budget
After submitting a slightly revised draft of the 2004 budget for the second reading, the government embarked on a so-called public relations campaign to prove its greater social character. Apparently...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Telling the World
Following the conference on the Holodomor at Columbia University and the opening of a special exhibit at the United Nations, the Ukrainian Mission asked this author to introduce the award-winning...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
We Will Learn How to Remember the Dead For the Sake of the Living
For Valentyna Stanislavovna, who grew up in a Zhytomyr suburb and came to St. Michael’s Square last Saturday to pay tribute to the memory of those who were taken from her and her neighbors by the...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Wheelchairs Made of Pirate CDs
Last Tuesday the Kyiv-based Artem Factory processed seized pirate CDs and videocassettes into materials to be used in the making of plastic articles, including wheelchair parts. Knockoffs worth UAH...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Russian dam causes Tuzla washout
While Ukrainian and Russian diplomats are trying to solve the Tuzla crisis through negotiations that can last for years, the worst predictions of the environmentalists are beginning to come true. The...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Crackled Sun
The Akvarel Gallery hosts the one-man show of a Kyiv-based artist Oleksandr Tarnovsky, which he named Solar Improvisation.
Oleksandr Tarnovsky is an architect by education and jeweler by calling...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Why was the word genocide withdrawn from the Statement?
To save the world from new tragedies similar to the 1932-1933 Manmade Famine, Ukraine suggested that various countries sign a joint statement to be released as official document of the UN General...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Topical Aspects of the Ukrainian National Liberation Revolution Of 1648-76
Socrates said that a scientist failing to bestow knowledge on fellow humans is like a lamp covered with a pot, meaning no light, so what is the use of it? He said this, addressing his pupils more...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Ukraine on the East River
In our mobile world, a person can have more than one home, more than one place to which he can return and find himself in familiar environs surrounded by old friends. One such place for this writer...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky on systemic errors
Valery Khoroshkovsky occupies a special place on the Ukrainian political scene. He first made himself known as a People’s Democratic Party member. His second coming into politics, as part of a...
25.11.2003 - 00:00
Japanese Proposal
Japanese entrepreneurs are seriously interested in investing in Ukraine’s economy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Kishiro Amae said at his last Friday’s meeting with...