№6, (1999)

cul-2 ECONOMY FOR THE WEEK  IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEFAULT? A banker who manages to survive this Time of Trouble in Ukraine will reply in the affirmative. Today,...

By Hevorh KARAPETIAN     Let us consider the right-centrist parties increasingly active on the political arena - Rukh and the National Democratic Party - in their dynamics...

Civic Virtue Defines  Citizenship The series of interviews with market vendors, published under the title "Petrivka 1999," (February 2) simply shocked me. Their reflections on the...

Historical experience of economic failures By Oleksiy PLOTNYKOV, Ph.D. in economics Analyzing Ukraine's economic experience since the country's independence, one has to admit,...

The government and the National Bank of Ukraine intend to ensure stability of the hryvnia in 1999 within a currency corridor of Hr 3.40-4.60 to one US dollar, Deputy Premier Serhiy Tyhypko...

Foreign founders of the joint telecommunications venture UTEL (America's AT&T, the German Deutsche Telekom and the Dutch PTT Telecom) have agreed in principle to negotiate selling their...

Kharkiv's Komunar (Communard) Plant and America's Motorola intend to launch a joint venture to produce walkie-talkies. A few years ago this plant and America's Federal System Group Co. set...

By Viktor PUZHAICHEREDA, The Day The airfield of the Gromov Test Flight Institute at Zhukovsky, near Moscow, has held a presentation of the first new-generation Tu-334 aircraft equipped with D-...

The Ukrainian banking system's performance in 1998 has supposedly been summed up. During this period the banks' revenues amounted to Hr 470.9 million (Hr 970 million in 1997). As of January 1, 1999...

Despite all skepticism, the international art project, "Art Grandees at Lviv Opera", promises to be one of the most outstanding events of the theatrical season. Indeed, at first the...

Mariupol's Metallurh Revenges Kyiv Dynamo The alumni of Mykola Pavlov, now on a training session in the Israeli city of Hemlon, held a control match with Moscow's Spartak, the champion of...

By Serhiy MAKHUN, The Day The victorious friendly match between Kyiv Dynamo and Milan, held at the San Siro stadium, raised more questions than answers about the functional capabilities of...

By Andriy OKHRYMOVYCH "It is only when a dollar prostitute breaks into fluent Ukrainian that it will all start to happen," rattled a tipsy intellectual next to the grocery store, not without...

By Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH, The Day I do not consider myself an art critic, nor do I belong with all those art managers. I am not versed in all theoretical subtleties and trade secrets. All I am left...

By Valentyna KUZNETSOVA "It has been common practice in our town for so long under any regime, if I may add, to trade on a vast square on Sundays. Peasants would come from neighboring villages...