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The latest developments connected with the attempts by Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko to reform the energy market in order to set up a clear system of power supply and payments (provided the attempts...

Every state is fated — or at least we would like to believe so — to get in the long run a guide: a blind man or a true Moses, but that is another topic. Although the European Union has been...

A long line of Saturdays, each essential for the fuel-and-energy complex, has stretched from April 19, when the Cabinet of Ministers was to decide, in the President’s presence, the destiny of Vice-...

We all have a recent totalitarian past, except that whether it is really our past remains a big question. The presidential elections showed that many in Ukraine still consider that past their...

The European Union and China have signed a trade agreement. This agreement was promptly dubbed historic, for, as was stressed, it opens to China its long-coveted road to the World Trade Organization...

The referendum gave a fresh impetus to debate on the second House in Parliament which, according to the “people’s” initiative, will represent regional interests. Now what is a region in Ukraine?...

May 30: 1876. Tsar Alexander II signed the Ems Ukase banning the publication and import of Ukrainian-language literature and staging theater productions in Ukrainian. 1923. The Ukrainian...

An analysis of reform in Ukraine in the 1990s gives every reason to assume that a developed market society is in practice still a thing of the future. The creation of market institutions —...

“Ukraine could have ten national television channels, rather than three,” Valery Yurchenko, president of RRT Concern, declared addressing a regular meeting of the Ukrainian Media Association’s Press...

Ukrainian’s have, with the rare but notable exceptions besmirching the historical record of most nations, seldom been particularly exclusive in their approach to who has a right to call this country...

I take a letter postmarked Tashkent 1983 from my local studies archive: “Sviatoslav Richter, my first cousin, was born on March 20, 1915, in Zhytomyr (Ukraine) at the Durylin Brothers’ Maternity...

Sometimes, when I hear another piece of news about the relationship between Russia’s authorities and media, I have a feeling of deja vu. I have already seen all this, but in Kyiv, not in Moscow. Now...

For Ukraine’s Right Centrists, getting together was a serious step after numerous disintegrating processes in their ranks and gradual loss of influence in the country. Now the choice is either unite...

EFF crediting of Ukraine may be resumed following the conclusions drawn by the International Monetary Fund mission expected to arrive in Ukraine in the second half of June, i.e., if the Ukrainian...

Summing up the fifth session of the intergovernmental Ukrainian- German commission dealing with settlers of German origin held in Odesa on May 22-23, Vice Premier of Ukraine Mykola Zhulynsky and...