№7, (2000)

The President’s traditional annual message to this Parliament could perhaps be described as nontraditional, considering that the chief executive proclaimed a new course (something that had to be...

Ukraine is once again being inspected by the Council of Europe (by now standard procedure) to see how this country is coping with its commitments undertaken over four years ago. This time, however,...

A nine ball women’s pool championship has been held for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine. The tournament was held on February 17-20 in the club of Kyiv’s Rostok Company, so...

The Day proposed those favoring and opposing Western aid to voice their views on its pages and will carry them starting with this issue. Hopefully, readers will join in the discussion. Please contact...

According to the State Statistics Committee, polluted discharges in surface bodies of water increased by one-third in 1998, with sewage registering an almost 2.4 time increment in the fresh water...

Ukrainian military servicemen have been called on to tighten their belts. The 2000 budget provides for no concessions which would make service in the Armed Forces even minimally attractive. Despite...

The Cabinet and National Bank announced the hryvnia’s floating rate in a joint statement which failed to make headlines, meaning it was most likely for the IMF missionaries as this official 2000...

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Freedom of Speech and Information Committee Oleksandr Zinchenko (SDPU{o} fraction), thinks that the daily televised “Parliamentary Diaries” is the best form of covering...

The creation and consolidation of postcommunist uncivil society was a completely natural sociological phenomenon for Ukraine in the late twentieth century: it is precisely in it that the social...

Tamara Yerofieyeva, first-year stu dent in the Sports Department of the National Physical Culture University of Ukraine, is in for busy days. The bronze medal winner in the exercise with the rope in...

The Antonov Research and Production Aircraft Company together with Britain’s Air Foyle Charter Company stand a good chance to win the tender for a low- cost and reliable transport craft to carrying...

It has already become customary to imagine this Old Rus scribe from Mark Antokolsky’s well- known sculpture Chronicler Nestor . But we should be precise. They never wrote on a table in twelfth...

On February 24 Saint Petersburg buried Anatoly Sobchak, a prominent post-Soviet politician who had become one of our television heroes, a man to whom we had long got used to precisely like we now get...

Russian First Deputy Premier Mikhail Kasianov, de facto head of the Russian government, held talks in Kyiv with Premier Yushchenko and President Kuchma On February 22. There is little doubt that...

Sometimes one has to doff one’s hat to the competition. One such case was Yuliya Mostova(ya)’s article in Saturday’s Zerkalo nedeli ( Mirror of the Week , published, unfortunately, in Russian only)...