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Cooperation between Ukraine and NATO is gaining momentum, Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksandr Kuzmuk said after his meeting with the NATO Defense Ministers Commission in Brussels. NATO Secretary...

The signing of the NRU-UNR (Udovenko-Kostenko) unity declaration, at the Rukh convention on June 9, caused no public reverberations. Those who marched past Verkhovna Rada under both Rukh faction...

Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh has warned members of his cabinet that he will take “very harsh measures” against ministers and other high officials who attempt to lobby the interests of politico-...

On June 7, Ukrainian farmers picketed Verkhovna Rada (see photo), thus beginning what they call an unlimited protest action. They think the absence of adequate land legislation is retarding...

I find troubling the materials on the offensive of Russian capital, of which most of the postcommunist world except Ukraine is understandably worried. Ukraine’s desire for admission to the Western...

Russian companies Sibur (controlled by Gazprom), Lukoil, Slavneft, Alfa Group, and UES Russia have announced their plans to expand their presence on the Ukrainian market recently. Most of these have...

On June 7 Verkhovna Rada passed the bill On the Election of People’s Deputies of Ukraine by 289 votes, and two days later President Kuchma announced he would veto it on the grounds that it will limit...

The latest reports from the Council of Europe say that the next debate on the Ukrainian question has been postponed until the autumn session of its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). This gives Ukraine...

The Ukrainian Il-76 airplane, detained more than a month ago in Bulgaria on suspicion of illegally trafficking arms to Eritrea, has been released because the accusations were found groundless. A...

The GUUAM (Georgia- Ukraine-Uzbekistan-Azerbaijan- Moldova) summit ended in Yalta on June 7, transforming this association into an international organization. Leonid Kuchma even proposed to rename it...

Dnipropetrovsk has hosted a two-day Ukrainian-Polish economic forum under the patronage of both Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Poland and Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland. Among the participants were 1,...

Yuri Komarov, a Gazprom board of directors member, said at a press conference on the Monday before last that the re-export of Russian gas from Ukraine to Poland could reach 1.5 billion cubic meters...

The visit by the US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Ukraine was significant for a number of reasons. It was the first visit, essentially an exploritory one, of a high US administration...

The Party of the Regions and the Agrarian Party of Ukraine signed a partnership and cooperation agreement on June 7. The signatories, Mykola Azarov and Mykhailo Hladiy, declared that the parties...

I am not going to deliver lectures to the readers about the critical state of the Ukrainian language in both Ukraine and the diaspora. The threat is grave: if the Ukrainian language dies, so will the...