№2, (2001)

New Year and the Christmas season have offered us an opportunity to take a closer look at the way television entertains us and to acquaint ourselves with the treasures of art that Kyiv and Moscow...

President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine ordered on January 19 the dismissal of Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko on the grounds that a legal action has been taken against her by decision of the Prosecutor...

State Property Fund (SPF) of Ukraine Chairman Oleksandr Bondar announced that at the present moment the privatization schedule of Ukrtelekom stipulated by the law on the special features of its...

Already the first pronouncements of the new American president make it possible to come to a simple conclusion: his Russian policy will be different from his predecessor’s. And different to the...

The Ministry of Finance has drawn up a Cabinet of Ministers resolution On Streamlining the Number of Public Sector Employees. The latter has been sent to the relevant ministries and agencies for...

On January 16 during his annual meeting with heads of diplomatic representatives accredited to Ukraine, President Leonid Kuchma made a series of fundamental statements. Ukraine’s foreign policy...

On January 20 President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine, completing his two-day routine visit to Germany, took part in the Bertelsmann Stiftung international forum called Europe without Borders and met...

On the eve of Epiphany frosts (Epiphany is celebrated on 19 January according to the Julian calendar, and it was not improbable that, despite forecasts of warm weather, we in fact got a light frost...

History often strikes us with its contrasts. One of the sharpest is that the first half of the seventeenth century Central Europe saw the terrible Thirty Years’ War (1618- 1648), with the first stage...

A decade ago the Persian Gulf War was underway, a military operation of the USA and their allies against Iraq. It was precisely ten years ago when it became possible to talk of the beginning of the...

The Balkan uranium story has become a test for one of the rather young branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ecological Safety Service of the Radiological- Chemical-Bacteriological (RCB)...

On January 17 the Ukrainian National Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation Fund and Austrian Reconciliation Fund signed in Kyiv an agreement on cooperation and voluntary payments to Ukrainian...

The sixth “very promising” session of Verkhovna Rada is over. At its beginning, it was stated that it would be the session of codes: the deputies placed on the agenda the adoption of Civil, Criminal...

On January 18 Marshal Igor Sergeyev, Russian Minister of Defense, arrived in Kyiv on an official visit. Received by President Leonid Kuchma, Marshal Sergeyev reiterated his interest in intensifying...

The current political indifference in our society has surprised even sociologists who have been polling public opinion for many years and can forecast, to a certain extent, various popular reactions...