Representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia demand ’maximum objectivity’ of the court trying the participants of the events of 9 March in Kyiv. They also demand to call, as a precedent, a jury to this end.

That was the main thesis of the international scientific seminar, which was held this weekend in Lviv.

The authorities in Kyiv tried to hamper the work of the 4th congress of the independent trade union of miners.

Many letters received by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma are devoted to the painful problem of law protecting in the country. These questions became domineering for the first time.

Ukraine got into the list of 47 countries that, according to the definition of the US State Department, do not satisfy the minimal standards prohibiting trading in people as the American law demands.

The criminal collegium of the Chernigiv oblast court finished to consider the first case of preparing a coup d’etat in Ukraine. The plotters appeared to be dwellers of a tiny forest hamlet.

On 10 July the UNO Program of Development distributed the results of a consecutive investigation ’Reports on man’s development in 2001’. In this list Ukraine occupies the 74th place out of 160 countries. The similar data are given for other former USSR republics.

In April issue of ’Prava ludyny’ V. Beloded initiated the discussion on the problem of suicides. Until now only one reader joined the discussion. He points out that the problem is much more complicated.

Interview of Evhen Sverstiuk given to the correspondent of the weekly ’Dzerkalo nedeli’ Taras Marysik