№8, (1998)
31.03.1998 - 00:00
Mykhailo Brodsky runs from jail and may win freedom
By Viktor Voroniuk, The Day
Well-known Kyiv businessman and Verkhovna Rada candidate Mykhailo Brodsky, arrested on March 10 on rather vague charges of financial machinations, seems likely to...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
By Yuri Andrukhovych,
The Day
I don’t know Yaroslav Yasinsky. I have never met him or heard of him. Among piles of letters, cards, manuscripts, files, and clippings that I have to plow...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
TIME TO CAST THE TOTAL
By Volodymyr Zolotaryov, The Day
Last week’s atmosphere was determined by the coming elections. The Parliament, President, and Cabinet were closing old files and outlining further...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
Zbigniew Brzezinski: “Ultimately Ukrainian independence can only be built and sustained by the Ukrainian people themselves”
By Arkady Sydoruk
Ukrainian People’s Deputy and Presidential candidate Yevhen MARCHUK:
“I am glad through the newspaper to welcome Zbigniew Brzezinski’s jubilee.
Zbigniew Brzezinski...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
UKRAINIAN SECURITY SERVICE IS 6 YEARS OLD
Ukrainian security service celebrated its sixth anniversary on March 25. The Service managed to stay impartial during all these years in spite of all political intrigues. The SBU chief, general...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE ALLOWS ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE LOCAL BRANCHES TO LEVY HIGHER PENALTIES
On March 26, President Kuchma signed changes to the antimonopoly law. From now on, local branches and authorized representatives of the Antimonopoly Committee can impose fines for breaking the...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
DYNAMO: NATIONAL SYMBOL
By Dmytro Dubovys, The Day
Recently all soccer fans in Ukraine celebrated Dynamo’s seventieth jubilee. Favorite of the entire people, this
legendary soccer club was once called by poet...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
WILL SERGEI KIRIYENKO HEAD THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FOR YEARS OR DAYS?
Vitaly PORTNYKOV, The Day, from Moscow
The appointment of the former Fuel and Energy Minister of Russia, Sergei Kiriyenko, as Acting Prime Minister of the Russian Government looks, at first...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
Moroz convinced of falsification
Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Moroz made no secret of who he voted for, telling journalists that he voted for his Socialist Party and for the Communist candidate in the district where he lives.
Of...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
SKI RACES
The leader of Ukrainian national ski team Iryna Terelia-Taranenko came in ninth in world rankings with 329 points after twelve stages. Larysa Lazutina of Russia with 773 points won the championship....
31.03.1998 - 00:00
Tatars protest Crimea vote
Exiled from their native Crimea in 1944 and fighting to return for decades on end, Crimean Tatars were told that they were not citizens and would not be allowed to vote. A March 28 protest meeting...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
Wild money
By Klara Gudzyk, The Day
While the latter-day generations of Soviet citizens enjoyed
“universal” equality, fortunes were
discreetly built out
of the public eye. Today, new Ukrainians...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
This week in history
April 1, 1906: the International Convention on Protection of Birds is signed (currently this date is marked as International Birds Day). April 1, 1917: Ukrainian public and political...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
EUROPEAN WOMEN WEAR SKIRTS FROM POLISSYA
By Valery Kostiukevych, The Day
But Ukrainian women somehow ignore domestically made clothing.
The Lesia Clothing Plant in Novohrad-Volynsky (Zhytomyr region), makes 500,000 items annually...
31.03.1998 - 00:00
52% INTEREST IN PIVDENNY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PLANT TO BE SOLD FOR CASH IN NONCOMMERCIAL TENDER
By October 1, investors can purchase for cash via a non-commercial tender a 52% share in the Pivdenny electrical engineering plant located in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson oblast. Another 6.3% block will be...
