№6, (1999)

By Serhiy ZGURETS, The Day The 1999 Idex arms show will open in the United Arab Emirates in a month's time. Ukrainian arms dealers and manufacturers, forced to ignore a dozen other military...

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,...

No reforms stipulated by cooperation programs with international financial institutions have been carried out in Ukraine, discrediting the very idea of reform and a market economy. Hence, any...

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...

On February 5, 1944, Moscow greeted the liberation of Lutsk from the Nazis with an artillery gun salute. More than fifty years have elapsed since then, yet the populace shows different reaction to...

By Tetiana KOROBOVA, The Day The leaders of NDP and Liberal Party, Anatoly Matviyenko and Volodymyr Shcherban, have signed a protocol on their intent to cooperate politically. The document states...

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...

A UKRAINIAN DANCE UNDER THE STAR OF DAVID IS A NORMAL, IF SOMEWHAT EXOTIC, EPISODE IN THE GALA CONCERT AT KYIV'S UKRAINE HOUSE (FORMER LENIN MUSEUM) TIMED FOR THE VISIT OF ISRAELI MINISTER...

Interviewed by Lesia GANZHA, The Day Once, feeling somewhat depressed - what classical poets tend to describe as a trying hour, with one's brain haunted by doubts about the destiny of mankind...

Ukrainian businessmen are the next to sue the government, after bankers. "We couldn't establish a dialogue with the Cabinet, so the Ukrainian Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs has...

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...

As should be clear from Ambassador Pifer's article on certification, US Secretary of State Albright might not be able to certify Ukraine's "progress" on the road to reform. In fact, one way to...

By Vyacheslav YAKUBENKO, The Day People's Deputy Pavlo Lazarenko called on his colleagues February 9 never to agree to hearing his case in camera, "in order to explain to the whole people not only...

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...

Leonid Kuchma Has Talked Himself Into a Criminal Charge, Says Serhiy Holovaty "Vitaly Fedorovych, if you don't adopt the right decision, I will address the people and tell them to hold a...