TOC_Sunday, August 22, 1999

Sunday, August 22, 1999

Financial/political oligarchies wield true power in Ukraine, says leading political scientist
by Roman Woronowycz
Kyiv Press Bureau

Election Commission chair cites possible adverse effects of Supreme Court's rulings
by Roman Woronowycz
Kyiv Press Bureau

Slave laborers from Ukraine authorize filing of class action suit against German corporations

New media phenomenon: street television
RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report

ANALYSIS
Responding to anti-Semitism in Russia
by Paul Goble
RFE/RL Newsline

NEWSBRIEFS

Budget for independence is set aside
Marchuk: president's rivals blocked
President vetoes bill on immunity
Last candidate joins presidential race
Ukraine looks for more Western money
Miners continue protests over wages
Turkmenistan may sue Ukraine
Rewards for those who saved lives
CEC amends media campaign rules
Incidents show need for delimitation
"Star Wars" arrives in theaters
Moroz, Rabinovich countersue
N-power workers warn of bankruptcy
Chornobyl Fund abuses detected
Back-to school season begins
Poland: restitution not for U.S. courts
Russians investigate NATO "crimes"
Moscow OKs bombers-for-gas proposal
Turkmenistan, Ukraine at odds over gas
Russia-Belarus union under way?
EBRD pays to improve sarcophagus
Kuchma: no pledge on Russian language
Odesa has new military academy

VOX POPULI: Ukrainian American youths speak out about independence

BUSINESS IN BRIEF

U.S. anti-dumping duties are dropped
Ukraine's foreign trade decreases
Bank offers 10-year homeowner loans
Products for children seen as unprofitable
Finance Ministry pays ING Barings
New plans for making nuclear fuel
Award for quality goes to Brovary
Ukraine and Tajikistan sign deal on alumina
New fungus disease plant remedy is a hit
Cabinet passes resolution on tourism
Over 20,000 Internet subscribers in Kyiv
Minister says 1999 harvest is on schedule

Ukrainian Heritage Foundation awards $20,000 in grants

Shevchenko foundation supports Ukrainian multimedia center

UOC-U.S.A. Metropolitan Council confers at annual meeting
The news release below was issued by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

UNA Executive Committee holds quarterly meeting
by Martha Lysko
UNA National Secretary

DISPATCH FROM SOYUZIVKA: Teachers, Club Suzy-Q'ers, dancers take over resort
by Tanya Singura

Weekly editor speaks in NYC

EDITORIAL
Mixed emotions

Turning the pages back...
August 24, 1991

ROUGH DRAFT
by Roman Woronowycz
Kyiv Press Bureau
Is it the medium or the message?

FACES AND PLACES
by Myron B. Kuropas
The noblest triumph

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Kudos for coverage of Joint Conferences
Conferences' results must be evaluated

FOR THE RECORD: UWC writes to President Kuchma
Following is the full text of the Ukrainian World Congress' August 3 open letter to President Leonid Kuchma. (The text was translated by The Ukrainian Weekly.)

PERSPECTIVES
by Andrew Fedynsky
On Ukrainian independence

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

UCCLA leader rejects allegation
Where are those tens of thousands?

NEWS AND VIEWS: Three generations of hard work
by Ihor Lysyj

Ukrainian American Plast youths on "Ridna Mandrivka" to Ukraine
by Marta Kolomayets
Special to The Ukrainian Weekly

INTERVIEW: U.S. ambassador speaks on developments regarding Ukraine
PART I

U. of Manitoba offers nine Ukrainian courses

BOOK NOTE: 75th anniversary history of Chornomorska Sitch

Émigré from Ukraine initiates Ukrainian Food Festival in Sydney
by Marika Halaburda

Evangelical Baptists to hold assembly in Pennsylvania
by Alex Harbuziuk

PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Tuesday, August 24 - Monday, September 20
PLEASE NOTE NEW REQUIREMENTS EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1