№10, (2001)

Volodymyr Klychko celebrated his birthday Saturday by beating America’s Derrick Jefferson, reaffirming his WBO heavyweight championship, yet the prospects can be even more significant than the title...

Leonid Kuchma declared last Wednesday that both the president and premier are interested in preserving the parliamentary majority. He is quoted by UNIAN as saying that “this majority has suffered a...

Up to 5,000 law enforcement officers from eleven of Ukraine’s oblasts protested outside Verkhovna Rada on March 20 (see photo) “to voice their attitude toward the events of March 9,” demanding higher...

According to a good tradition that has arisen in Ukraine’s homegrown democracy, the rules of the political game are established during the game, depending on who gets the upper hand at the time. The...

The Gongadze case has taken a new scandalous turn. People’s Deputy Serhiy Holovaty stated on March 20 that the German experts believe the body samples provided by Ukrayinska pravda editor Olena...

Yuri Shupik, Ukraine’s chief forensic medical expert, is quoted by Interfax Ukraine as saying that no experts in Ukraine will be able to ascertain the cause of death of the body discovered at...

On March 20 a round table organized by the For Inter-Ethnic Peace and Concord in Ukraine Association and dedicated to the International fight against racism week, was held at the IREX ProMedia Press...

Russia’s Gazprom intends to exact the cost of 1.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas illicitly siphoned off by Ukraine in the first half of 2000 through the International Permanent Court of...

Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I addressed a letter to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in response to a January 19 letter from a group of people’s deputies, reports Interfax Ukraine. In their...

Last week, after my first Wednesday pair, the local academic unit of an hour and twenty minutes, I said “hold that thought for the next pair,” when the students replied that they were going to the...

On March 19 the presentation of the activity of the International medical organization Medics sans Frontiers (MSF) took place in Kyiv. Offices of this organization have opened in nineteen countries...

Slavic fraternity, a deeper integration of Slav brothers, the gathering of the lands... All this seems to have already happened long ago, in the ninth century. But a number of non-governmental...

“If we want to cooperate in the sphere of international security, we must all carry out military reforms,” Klaus Kleiber, Assistant to the NATO Secretary General on Political Affairs (photo), said at...

With April 10, when the government is to report to Verkhovna Rada on its performance last year, just a few weeks away, politicians from all the political camps without exception are making more and...

The rule of Petru Lucinschi has been rich in surprises: last summer Moldova turned into a parliamentary republic, and in late February it became the first post-Soviet country where Communists came to...