№10, (2004)

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has announced that Brussels will approve the Ukraine-European Union Action Plan on May 18. The plan, if fulfilled, is supposed to result in the establishment of a...

Myth sometimes disguises the true essence of things, and to understand the latter this essence one must have certain experience of perceiving things without undue respect for myths or canons. This...

Vadym KARASIOV, director, Institute for Global Strategies: All things considered, Russia has overcome its depression and entered a phase in its history which is actively expanding. It is very...

Uliana KYRIYENKO, Global Strategies Institute: “The Kliuchkovsky-Rudkivsky Proportional Elections Bill approved in the first reading has finally concretized the current state of compromise in...

It appears that something mysterious is cooking in government kitchens with the use of all possible financial and energy flows, the probable culinary delight a new Fuel and Energy Minister is...

Last Wednesday Verkhovna Rada held hearings On the Results of Conducting the Year of the Disabled in Ukraine in 2003. The issue in question was the social protection of persons with special needs and...

The Kyiv Marat Gelman Gallery hosts a one-man show by veteran of the installation genre in the Ukrainian visual arts, Lviv- based Andriy Sahaidakovsky. Sahaidakovsky does not visit the capital...

Sevastopol has seen the end of the first stage of a Ukrainian-Norwegian social adaptation project designed for the Ukrainian naval servicemen to be retired as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces...

Separate demand accounts opened with Ukrainian banks meant to collect VAT payments, transfer them to the state budget, and also reflecting funds involved in such payments and compensations, will be...

We all have repeatedly heard allegations from the opposition to the effect that the political reform has been conceived by Medvedchuk and Kuchma to refuse the people access to power through its...

Kyiv is braced for a traditional springtime gentrification and cleanup campaign. It is planned to spend almost 60 million hryvnias. Out of this figure, 41 million will come from non-budget sources:...

Literary and music soirees have become another good tradition cultivated by the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, highlighting the anniversaries of prominent cultural figures, with invitations extended to...

On March 12 the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (STAU)’s session aroused serious concern in this country’s economic life. Addressing the session, STAU Chairman Yury Kravchenko said he would put...

She studied Morse code, learned to fire a machine gun, and dreamed of being a ship captain. Still in school, she was the only girl who represented Moscow’s Young Pioneers in the delegation that...

Various sources point to some 90% Ukrainians currently working in Russia as illegal immigrants, meaning they are not officially registered, pay no taxes, and that these people can hardly expect old-...