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The date of the Constitution Court ruling concerning the presidential edict calling the referendum will be postponed, court press service chief Volodymyr Shliaposhnykov declared. He confirmed that...

Parliament-Cabinet relationships are once again in the limelight after the Cabinet submitted its action program, followed by an exchange of rather sharp remarks and commentaries. Below People’s...

Last Thursday, a government committee was to discuss the date of shutdown for the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Little wonder then that the visit of Acting President of the European Bank for...

Mykolayiv city council members have demanded that the Prosecutor General’s Office take an action against a foreign investor. “We reserve the right not to serve some customers in our establishment...

The State Border Security Committee of Ukraine claims poaching has reached an enormous level. 44 Turkish schooners that fished in the Ukrainian waters were detected over the first two months of this...

US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer and Odesa Mayor Ruslan Bodelan, have signed an agreement on a $400,000 grant to be given by the US Trade and Development Agency to examine the condition of Odesa...

An Italian court found eleven Ukrainian sailors guilty of smuggling 302 illegal emigrants into the territory of Italy. On March 11, the authorities of the Italian city of Reggio di Calabria detained...

“You should not expect any miracles from the international conference of the Balkan Stability Pact donors,” said Javier Solana, now in charge of European Union’s joint foreign policy and security, in...

March 28: 1708. Tsar Peter I decreed the introduction in Russia of the civil print type to replace the Old Church Slavonic one. 1944. Mykolayiv was taken from the Germans. March 29: 1864. A...

You have to hand it to Stephen Wingate, the Rambo of American small business in Ukraine. We first covered his nightmare in trying to open his Mykolayiv restaurant (February 9, 1999) and now we cover...

Getting its action program to pass muster in Parliament is perhaps Viktor Yushchenko’s first serious test of strength. When forming the Cabinet, he received carte blanche from the President. Now the...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has handed over to the Verkhovna Rada Speaker a list of seven deputies now under scrutiny at the Prosecutor General’s Office. SBU chairman Leonid Derkach...

Addressing journalists on March 24, Chairman of the board of directors of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny National Joint Stock Company, Ihor Bakai, announced his irreversible resignation. The function to...

After four weeks of medical treatment, doctors have allowed Yevhen Marchuk, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, to greatly increase his movement. It is planned...

The Cabinet of Ministers is setting up on the basis of the Food Industry Committee now being disbanded the State Food Department to be vested with governmental administrative powers. The renaming is...