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The Ukrainian regional courts, which have earlier passed capital punishment, are to revise the cases and commute the sentences to life imprisonment. On April 13, President Leonid Kuchma issued a...

Whence comes the trait of one people or another as neatness and the instinctive striving for a clean everyday life? We traditionally take an exaggerated pride in our whitewashed country houses and...

Chronic nonpayment, broad usage of interenterprise settlements, barter, and promissory note patterns have left Ukraine’s railroads without working capital [current assets, to use the parlance],...

About 2 million hectares, or 50% of the acreage planned for early cereal crops could be sowed behind schedule, said Minister of Agrarian Policy Ivan Kyrylenko. In his view, the failure to plant at...

Mine closures under the Coal Sector Restructuring Program are again causing social trouble. And though this time its scale is not so large, it still is paralyzing normal life in the region, involving...

On the night of June 18, 860, a thunderstorm was raging over Constantinople (also known as Tsarhorod in Old Rus’). The secure Greeks were making merry and tower guards were drunk, being so certain...

Lately, an event happened in Poland, which passed almost unnoticed, but was very important for the Polish society. Archbishop of Lublin Josef Zyczinski at a divine service made an appeal not to blame...

Perhaps the epicenter of Ukrainian political activities will soon shift to the regions. Presidential Administration Head Volodymyr Lytvyn, addressing a meeting of regional media representatives,...

Ukrainian science is in dire straits and the research personnel is aging. These are perhaps the two most serious problems facing the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Ukr. abbr., NAN), with the...

The question implementing the referendum results will obviously be the main issue in Ukraine’s social and political life for at least the next several weeks. In view of the Constitutional Court...

Vladimir Putin has arrived. The new Russian and the remaining Ukrainian Presidents will meet today in Sevastopol. They say that Mr. Putin asked Mr. Kuchma by phone to arrange for the top-level...

These days Ukraine has found itself in the sights of its strategic partners: US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was welcomed in Ukraine last Friday and the newly elected President of Russia...

The battles over approving the Cabinet’s action program pushed into the background the signing of the Cabinet-Parliament agreement on joint responsibility. According to the scenario, it had to be...

Hardworking Ukrainians are beginning the spring planting their gardens and dachas. By working the soil, we rightfully count on the grace of God in the form of good crops. For the Ukrainian of the...

The Cabinet issued year 2000 discount internal government bonds (IGBs) worth a total of UAH 5.17 billion, to be secured by the Finance Ministry acting on the government’s behalf. The ministry will...