№19, (2001)

EBRD President Jean Lemiere signed a credit line agreement with the Microfinancial Bank public corporation. The latter’s president Volker Renner noted that “the credit agreement will allow...

The biographical encyclopedic dictionary, Women of Ukraine was officially presented as the common child of the Women’s Association of Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Progress Academy’s Institute...

Kyiv soccer fans had a real feast last Tuesday, after Dynamo won the national championship’s gold. The Dynamo vs. Dnipro of Dnipropetrovsk match proved emotionally saturated, reaching dramatic peaks...

Ukraine’s stock market has not been an inspiration for reform- minded citizens over the past few years. But, oddly enough, there still are many people cashing in on the purchase and sale of shares....

In the course of his visit to Kharkiv on June 21, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine made a number of important statements. In particular, he proclaimed that his decree On Implementing the...

On June 21 Verkhovna Rada finally approved the law On the Order of the Admission and Conditions Under Which Foreign Forces Can Operate on the Territory of Ukraine in 2001. In similar fashion the...

National Reserve Bank of Russia Governor Aleksandr Lebedev believes that two recent events — the session of the presidential Consultative Council For Foreign Investment and the opening in Kyiv of the...

The political crisis in Ukraine and myths concerning it have not affected the economic stability and the declared intentions to integrate into the European community, the Secretary of the National...

On June 12-14 the Chancellery of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church has announced that the Mixed Commission to Study Ways of Orthodox Unity in Ukraine convened for the second time in the...

By setting a new 17% rate for the export duty on the seed of some oil bearing crops Verkhovna Rada seems be defying the IMF. The fund had continually and unsuccessfully demanded cutting the duty on...

An event took place in Ukraine that only recently would have seemed totally impossible, as Kyiv streets saw a very unusual cortege led by the popemobile with a regal old man in it, greeting onlookers...

Expert lawyers will have to sweat trying to figure out the legitimacy of the Crimean Supreme Council’s June 20 decision and whether its resolutions can be regarded as legally valid. Our task is...

Last Thursday Robert Menard, General Secretary of the Reporters Without Borders international organization, announced at his press conference in Kyiv that, should Prosecutor General Mykhailo...

On June 22 the leaders of Ukraine took part in unveiling ceremony of a memorial sign in Kyiv to the militaries killed in the Great Patriotic War (known elsewhere as World War II, but that is another...

The US administration understands very well the important role of Ukraine and is ready to support its political and economical reforms, stated Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor to the US...