№38, (1998)

That night Good again reigned over Evil, even though by the Indian calendar only. And it took very little: watching pretty women dance, smiling and swinging their hips provocatively. For some reason...

The deputy presidential chief of staff Pavlo Haidutsky declared that the government intends to confront the internal dumping on the sugar market by making the Ukrainian sugar market a wholesale one...

Last week the Verkhovna Rada delayed consideration of the Cabinet bill on the "specificities of the privatization" of Ukraine's giant national company, Ukrtelekom (Ukrainian Telecommunications). The...

Recall that two years ago the previous Verkhovna Rada was also unable to approve the NBU balance for 1995. In June 1997 its report for two years, 1995-1996, came up for consideration. Then as now,...

No doubt, we were pleased and surprised to hear from our head of state, who announced implementation of market reform only yesterday (in 1994), that today (in 1998) we finally have “grounds to claim...

The controversy between the Elayent-Kyiv Ukrainian-American joint venture and the Ministry of Defense and Ukrainian government spilled over to the international level when US Ambassador to Ukraine...

The question of who cast the first stone at the NBU Governor is as interesting as it is intimate. It all officially started about two weeks ago, when several events coincided in time: the UT-1...

Last Thursday, Verkhovna Rada finally confirmed Oleksandr Bondar as Chairman of the State Property Fund. As we know, the Left had long projected its attitude toward privatization on the Fund’s...

Forty children who have chosen to part with their lives during the first half of this year are at first glance an insignificant part of the 7898 suicides committed in Ukraine over this period....

Late one July night a group of seven Kryvy Rih teenagers, included four girls and three boys aged 13 to 16, brutally beat a fifty-year old homeless man. After finishing with the beating by dawn, they...

When we turn on the television or open a newspaper, we want normal objective information. Alas, the current situation in Ukraine is rather specific: the authorities instead of using direct censorship...

There was no sensation. Last Friday, the Left wanted again to forbid 1998 Sea Breeze exercise which started last Saturday at the Shyroky Lan training area and Northern Black Sea waters with 30...

Former Speaker Oleksandr Moroz, interviewed in this issue, is a good and decent man. He says what he thinks and makes no bones about his socialist convictions, which he stuck to even when they were...

The hard currency market reacted promptly to Yeltsin’s long-lasting bronchitis – the US dollar costs one and a half rubles more than before. Russia, that is experiencing a deep structural and...

I will express my personal opinion. The attitude toward NATO pressure in the Balkans in different post-Socialist countries depends on how structured their political elite’s attitude toward the...