№9, (1998)
07.04.1998 - 00:00
LANOVY OUT AT SPF
President Kuchma issued an edict yesterday, appointing Oleksandr Bondar, previously First Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, its acting head.
Experts believe that Volodymyr...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
NIKOPOL FERROALLOY TENDERS INVALIDATED
In compliance with the Procurator General's objection of February 20, the State Property Fund of Ukraine invalidated noncommercial tenders selling two blocks of shares of the joint stock company,...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
MAESTRO RAKHLIN OF KYIV
By Klara Gudzyk, The Day
The municipal authorities have finally honored the memory of Natan Rakhlin, an outstanding musician of our time with a simple memorial plaque, it is a tribute to...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
PATRIARCH UDOVENKO PASSES ON POST TO YOUNGER HANDS
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Hennady Udovenko announced his resignation because of his election to Parliament. An exemplary gesture of a law-abiding citizen, because the Constitution forbids top level...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
LVIV DID NOT LET KHMARA INTO PARLIAMENT
By Roman Onyshkevych, The Day
The new Ukrainian Parliament will have to do without Stepan Khmara, the firebrand nationalist and leader of the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party. Many...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
New Chornobyl disaster possible at any moment
On April 2 Valentyn Kupny, Deputy Director of the Chornobyl Plant described the condition of the containment structure, built in answer to the world's worst nuclear disaster, as such that "it will...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
VALERY HEYETS: "EVENTS ON THE FINANCIAL MARKET CONFIRM THAT WE HAVE TO SOFTEN MONETARY POLICY"
By Iryna Klymenko, The Day
According to National Bank of Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko, the NBU managed to achieve a certain stability on the financial market during the last ten...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
This week in history
April 8, 1959: the first KrAZ-222 dump truck rolls down the conveyer line at the Kremenchuk Auto Factory. April 8, 1990: the US-Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation is set up in Kyiv. April 9, 1921:...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
The Phenomenon of the Greens or On the Utility of New Technologies
By Volodymyr Zolotariov, The Day
The outcome of the election campaign has not produced any special surprise except the phenomenon of the Greens and the failure of the NEP democratic bloc....
07.04.1998 - 00:00
AVTOZAZ TO RECEIVE DAEWOO LOAN TO PAY DEBTS
The South Korean company DAEWOO will grant AvtoZAZ a loan worth $55 million to pay its debts, reports UNIAN. The investment program of the Ukrainian-Korean joint venture, AvtoZAZ-DAEWOO, also...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
THEY WERE HANDING OUT OSCARS...
By Mykhailo Brynykh, The Day
Last week Ukraine's aborigines were shown civilization. Its mouth gaping open worldwide with the soft-spoken tongue hanging out between the teeth (thanks!). Its...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
THE COST OF PRE-ELECTION ABSURDITY
By Iryna Klymenko, The Day
Last week the most important issue was summing up the elections. First, everybody wanted to hear about the winners and know the score to try to figure out how this...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
OLEKSANDR MOROZ: "IT WOULD NOT BE BRIGHT TO SAY THE DEMOCRATS LOST, AND IT WOULD BE PREMATURE TO SAY THE LEFT WON"
By Tetiana Korobova, The Day
One detail: Moroz's behavior shows that he is neither past nor future, he still is in power as Speaker of Parliament and prospects for past and future...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
"HELP ME ORGANIZE A SHOW TO MAKE THE MUSCOVITES JEALOUS," DAVYD BURLIUK WROTE TO UKRAINE. IT FINALLY HAPPENED
By Serhiy Vasyliev, The Day
An art show was organized, albeit over thirty years after this prominent Ukrainian artist, original man of letters, and theoretician of art wrote this message...
07.04.1998 - 00:00
IN WASHINGTON THEY AGAIN WANT TO REDUCE AID TO UKRAINE
Debates resumed in Congress on aid to Kyiv, possibly after hearing the parliamentary election's preliminary results.
Reuters considers it likely that the US Congress will okay half the amount...