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Antifreeze-February 3, 2000

The last week was unseasonably warm. Thoughts not long ago unthinkable have started reoccurring with alarming frequency Р images of spring, life …
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Best English-language bookstore: Dinternal

Dinternal, ltd. 2V Museyny Provoluk. Tel: 228-1362. Open Monday through Friday 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Have you ever found …
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He Said She Said-February 3, 2000

Love that skvozniak Over the years Ukraine has produced all sorts of dangerous things: ballistic missiles, nuclear accidents, Cossacks, belligerent …
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Staying home for western degree

There’s a saying in Russian: Forget what you learned in college and start from scratch in the workplace. But graduates of the University of …
Olena Nikolayenko

December surge heartens AvtoZAZ-Daewoo

The troubled Ukrainian-Korean car joint venture AvtoZAZ-Daewoo suffered from poor sales for a second straight year in 1999, raising more questions …
Vitaly Sych

Imported beer market fizzles out

It looks like the party’s over for beer importers in Ukraine. Foreign beers flooded the Ukrainian market in the years following independence, but …
Vitaly Sych

Billing by the second boosts Kyivstar

Mobile phone provider Kyivstar GSM said on Feb. 1 that its new second-by-second pricing scheme has won it a huge number of new customers. Kyivstar has …
Vitaly Sych

Registration laws must go

Feb. 3, 2000 The stories started coming our way in early January. First up was Michael Ducey from the United States. After a pleasant visit to Ukraine …
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Ukraine set to miss privatization goal

Just one month into 2000, Ukraine already looks set to miss its ambitious privatization revenue targets for the year, State Property Fund head …
Vitaly Sych

Parliament rivalry mounts

The deputies, split into a pro-government majority and a leftist minority, reconvened separately on Feb. 1 after a week-long scheduled recess. Each of …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Regional ad agencies face uphill battle for respectability

It's the unwritten law of Ukrainian economics: If you're doing big business in Ukraine, then you're doing it in Kyiv. For regional …
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Crackdown on registration angers foreigners

Foreigners arriving in Ukraine for more than three days, beware. The final minutes before your departure might turn into a headache, just when you …
Evgenia Mussuri

IMF probes loan-misuse allegations

The International Monetary Fund is investigating allegations that Ukraine misused money from 1997 IMF loans, and the sides agreed to an audit of the …
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Russia continues to withhold oil deliveries

As Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom issued fresh accusations that Ukraine is illegally siphoning off gas from Russian pipelines transiting …
Anna Stepanenko

Debt swap details start to emerge

The details of Ukraine’s long-awaited plan to restructure $2 billion of soon-to-mature foreign debt have become clear in advance of Feb. 4, the date …
Stefan Korshak

Western criticism pushes oligarchs toward Russia

In geopolitics there is not such thing as a life-long friend. President Leonid Kuchma, recently a buddy of the West, is finding that his Western pals …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Antifreeze-January 27, 2000

We can’t drink as much; we don’t smoke at all; we haven’t been in a fight since school; cooking means more to us than frying potatoes; we don’t fix …
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Readers Retort-January 27, 2000

Last week, we asked readers about marriage: Is marriage an honorable institution that young women should enter as early as possible, or is it …
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