№37, (2001)

Revision is in the air about America’s economic miracle. Not only did America’s bubble crash, but also it now appears that much of the US economic miracle of the 1990s never happened. When it comes...

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...

“We want the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the G-7 countries, and the European Union to meet their obligations undertaken in 1995. Simultaneously, we do not want to be pushed into...

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...

What, in your opinion, is behind the attack against the NSDC secretary by media organs close to Mr. Derkach? Leonid KRAVCHUK, first president of Ukraine: It stands to logic that...

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...

IN THE LIGHT OF A BAT LAMP Who would ever think that it would be not a big organized village with a solid name like Horodok [Town], Krasnovolia [Red Freedom], or Velyky Obzyr [Big Sight] to rebel...

One phrase President Kuchma said after his negotiations with German Chancellor Schroeder, later echoed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Zlenko after his return from Brussels, as long as a year ago...

*** 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...

“Did you discuss the problems of military and nuclear-technology cooperation?” “Not a single question of bilateral military and nuclear-technology cooperation was raised during the talks.” “...

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...

For the tenth time the week before last the world public began its campaign, Sixteen Days Without Violence, which traditionally falls on a two-week period between two special dates on the UN calendar...

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...

To demonstrate their integrity and disregard for the power of money, warriors in Middle Ages raised animal furs, or soft gold, on their spears as a kind of banners. Since people discovered barter,...

I watched the Russian state television news program with special delight. “Vesti” showed Vladimir Putin and Colin Powell, while the anchor reported that in spite of certain still existing differences...