№37, (2001)
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Ukrainians’ Paramount Task
On December 11 an international workshop, Sociopolis in Ukraine: The Technologies of Practical Building, started in Kyiv. Yevhen Marchuk was the first to hit upon the idea of the socioeconomic...
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First Memorial to Ostarbeiters Unveiled In Germany
On December 12, the first memorial to slave laborers of the Third Reich was unveiled on the premises of a former munitions factory in Leipzig. Ostarbeiters from Ukraine, Slovenia, Poland, Russia, and...
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What about the count?
Ukraine’s Central Electoral Committee has made a final decision as to the start of the election campaign. On December 30 the CEC will meet in its first session to formally announce its beginning. At...
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Enterprise Directors strike, politicians win, but we are still without a Tax Code
On December 13 about two thousand people picketed in front of the Verkhovna Rada building, protesting against the adoption of the Tax Code, though the discussion of this subject is postponed to...
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This week in history
December 18: 1942. Ukraine’s liberation from the Nazis began with the capture of the village of Pivnivky.
1957. The KPU Central Committee passed a decision on creating a scientific editorial...
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Bank Ukrayina: Names Named
Ukrayina Bank was led to a failure by the activities of an “organized criminal group functioning in the banking sphere,” believes Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada ad hoc Committee to Investigating the...
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Technology Oriented Toward the Future
Ukraine is now facing an extremely acute dilemma: either to marshal all domestic reserves and break through into the group of developed countries or to finally remain in the group of the hopelessly...
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Will Lazarenko Tell All?
The next pre-trial hearing of Ukrainian former Premier Pavlo Lazarenko case in San Francisco court is scheduled for March 8, 2002. As Lazarenko family attorney in Ukraine Maryna Dolhopola informed...
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Mykola Azarov quits Party of the Regions
The fourth congress of the Party of Regions, held on December 14 in Kyiv, became one more important event in the election campaign. As expected, the party unanimously supported the decision to...
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Artist for Hostages, Curator For a Museum
December 11 saw the opening of a new exhibition at the Museum of Cultural Heritage, the In Jest project by curator Natalia Filonenko. It continues a series of events taking place in the museum since...
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YURY NIKITIN’S OSTROH
This year marks the 425th anniversary of the oldest academy in the Eastern Europe, the Ostroh Academy National University. It revives in the spirit of modern achievements in education of the...
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Volodymyr Hryshko Became an American General
Renowned Ukrainian tenor Volodymyr Hryshko has returned from a long journey. In recent years he has spent more time overseas than at home, working by contract with the leading companies of America...
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Church in a Beer Bottle
“I remember seeing, when a child, a wooden chur ch in a beer bottle.
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The beginning of the winter after an almost month-long pause in Kyiv exhibition life was filled primarily with social projects and was very intensive
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First, it is necessary to mark a rather small but very important exhibition of Alexander Archipenko’s works at the Ukrainian Museum of Fine Arts. The Picasso of sculpture, as his...
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Gastronomic Geography
Either the pre-holiday merriment has developed into a pandemic or the magic word charity has taken on a special allure, but the ninth charity bazaar organized in the Sports Palace under the aegis of...