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IN THIS YEAR’S AMERICAN LEGENDS LIGHT ATHLETICS MARATHON OUR COMPATRIOT TETIANA POZDNIAKOVA WON QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY. THIS YEAR APPROXIMATELY 300 RUNNERS FROM 28 COUNTRIES TOOK PART IN THE EVENT...

January 25: 1931. A ten-day campaign to liquidate illiteracy began throughout Ukraine. 1955. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet decreed to lift the state of war between the Soviet Union and...

The first visit of Viktor Yushchenko in the capacity of Ukrainian Premier to the Russian capital is undoubtedly an outstanding event not only for the next few months but also for the next few years...

Preliminary data of a study by UN demography researchers (final assessments are expected later in March) have come like a bolt from the blue: to preserve the current ratio between the employed...

One question of the last decade has already begun to get on our nerves: How much longer will the CIS exist, and does it exist at all? After the resignation of independent Russia’s first president...

After the meeting of Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yushchenko with first deputy head of the Russian government Mikhail Kasianov (who is now de facto running Russia’s government) it became apparent that...

The State Committee for Communication and Informatization work group has developed a new bill On the Specifics of Ukrtelekom Privatization. According to Committee Chairman Oleh Shevchuk, this time...

In the version he gave at a press conference everything happened like this. A dog ran out on the highway. Serhiy turned the wheel, the car swung into the culvert and hit a tree. Of course, the driver...

President Leonid Kuchma has decreed to hold a public-initiated all-Ukrainian referendum on April 16, 2000. The ballots will include six questions and possible answers to them: 1) Do you express...

The Friday before last, Reuters spread information about the intention of Ukraine to announce the decision to reschedule its foreign debt. To avoid default, the agency claims, Ukraine will...

The most mysterious pages of political history are perhaps those describing the phenomenon of pretenders (impostors), i.e., people who claimed they were tsars, emperors, or other kind of rulers. And...

Last Thursday Russia’s Minister of Fuel and Energy Viktor Kaliuzhny and Gazprom CEO Rem Viakhirev arrived in Kyiv for talks. As Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko announced, the Ukrainian side and...

Whether we like it or not, any declaration made by the Ukrainian government about serving its Eurobond debt is an exceptionally important signal to the market, showing how the borrower views his...

The land question is now on everyone’s lips. It is common knowledge that reforms in the agrarian sector of this country’s economy have been literally creeping for more than one year, since 1992 to...

Historically, Ukrainian and German destinies have at times been intertwined. Also historically, the Ukrainian political leadership of all Europe knows its German counterpart the best. And yet history...