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EDITORIAL
THE ÒENT?
Humanity loves installing monuments and grandiose memorial sites honoring and in memory of any great event that left its imprint on history and contributed to the development and evolution of nations and peoples.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE WITH UKRAINE!
Belarus is not Ukraine
Technology and Development When communism imploded in 1989, pundits were quick to spot the silver lining. The countries in transition, they said, could now leapfrog whole stages of development by adopting novel technologies and through them the expensive
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BROADBAND
BILL OF RIGHTS
The impending marriage of television and the Internet, consummated with the help of next-generation set-top boxes that will add online access to the cable industry's multi-channel offerings, promises to extend the reach of the Internet into millions of households. But at what cost? Will the Internet, historically an open, diverse, and democratic environment, fall under the sway of cable's closed, top-down architecture? Will our online choices effectively be limited to a handful of featured sites on the cable company's electronic program guide? Will the pay-per-view paradigm, in which premium fees are charged for special-interest and on-demand programming, be applied to the World Wide Web? Even at "discount" rates (for those who elect to add high-speed Internet access to their cable subscriptions, or who accept other "bundled" offerings), this may be too high a price to pay for broadband delivery.
Ukrainian
Broadcasting on Deutsche Welle-Radio: Two Priorities
Until recently, Ukrainian radio listeners have associated Deutsche-Welle Radio (DW-Radio) exclusively with its Russian editorial office, which has been broadcasting since 1962. The informational policy of DW-Radio towards the USSR, like that of Voice of America (VoA) and Radio Freedom (RF), consisted of acting as an alternative to Soviet propaganda.
Collecting
on Callers: Ukrtelekom and Ukraine's Lagging Telephone
Communications Industry
It is often alleged that electronic communication is developing much more slowly in Ukraine than in other countries, including neighboring Russia. Yet the rates charged for these inferior services exceed those in many locations, including Russia. As Ivan Halenko, the Chief of the European Security and Conversion Institute, says, "The rates of payment in Ukraine are higher than in Poland by a factor of 10-12, whereas the average salary in Ukraine is much lower… Our domestic "craftsmen" have turned the means of communication into a means of easy profit. This state of affairs is similar to that in colonial countries and countries with strong authoritarian regimes…"
The
Mobile Phone Bug
It is difficult to imagine the world of today and tomorrow without computers, TV-sets, mobile phones, and other kinds of electronic equipment, all of which work by using or emitting weak electrical and magnetic broadband fields. Mobiles, the newest of the three technologies, are already ubiquitous, and as such their influence on human health has been the subject of much study. This influence has been the subject of controversy for more than a decade, and the controversy shows no sign of abating.
ARMS
TRADE: «FOR» , «AGAINST»... The
following conclusions regarding the attitude of Ukrainian people
towards the arms trade business are based on the results of a
national sociological study conducted by the Army, Conversion,
and Disarmament Research Center. This center is part of the
sociological service arm of the National Strategic Studies
Institute (NSSI). The survey was conducted on April 7-19, 2004,
in 86 populated areas in all territorial and administrative
areas of Ukraine: 24 regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,
and the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol. The study was conducted
as a multistage sample, which categorized the attitudes of
people (older than 18) by sex, age, education, and home region.
The NSSI polled about
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COFFEE IN UKRAINE IN 2004...
SHOPPING FOR HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES
Traditional Czech fare such as fried cheese, goulash, dumplings and potato
Hans Burie comes from a large family. With 5 brothers and two sisters he grew up in Diksmuide (Belgium), a little town in Flanders Fields near the North Sea.
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SHARP DECLINE IN
DISCARDED FISH CATCHES COULD BE GOOD OR BAD NEWS - UN
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported a 60% decrease over the past decade in the amount of fish being thrown back into the sea and wasted.
MARSHRUTKA
I recently took a marshrutka, a fixed route minibus, from Kyiv to Tarasivka. I must admit that the impressions I was "enriched" with there will last me a long time. First
FRANCE: RADICAL GREEN TAX ON BIGGER CARS, SMALL CARS TO GET REWARDS French drivers who favor large, gas-guzzling cars will have to pay up to ˆ3,500 (?2,300) more for a new model from next January under a radical green road tax scheme unveiled by the environment ministry. Part of a new environment bill aimed at cutting air, water and soil pollution over the next five years, the scheme will also reward drivers who opt for smaller, cleaner vehicles with payouts of up to ˆ700. It's a carrot-and-stick approach that should cost the taxpayer nothing but should make motorists think twice about the kind of car they need, and the kind of car they buy is the opinion of the French Environment ministry.
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