№21, (2001)

The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) has voiced its complete support of “the idea of fair elections.” “The party welcomes any public initiative directed at the realization of this idea,”...

What kind of toys do your children play with? Larysa PIDKAMINNA, 30: We buy only foreign-made toys for our child because they are of much higher quality than Ukrainian ones. Most probably...

On July 13 in Paris a Ukrainian delegation led by Ukrainian Minister of Finance Ihor Mitiukov signed an agreement with the Paris Club of Creditors on a twelve year restructuring of the $580 million...

Last Wednesday Verkhovna Rada passed the law On Payment of Wage and Other Financial Arrears whereby employers must pay off existing back wages to all employees before January 1, 2002, i.e., before...

July 17: 1958. The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decision to close eight out of forty acting monasteries in Ukraine, including the Kyiv Pechersk Monastery of the Caves....

Neither Russia nor Ukraine will benefit from the VAT that Russia has imposed on imports from Ukraine beginning July 1 “from the standpoint of the political consequences of this decision,” President...

Ukraine’s nonaligned status and dependence on the eastern vector of its foreign policy have brought about the assumption that we will not join NATO but at the same time do not refuse to cooperate...

The critical recommendations of the Committee on Political Issues and Security of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly concerning Ukraine “came way too late and are not timely for Ukraine’s domestic...

As usual, it all started amid great pomp and the highest ambitions, as over seventy natural persons (a complete list of whom the press somehow did not get) early this year founded in Verkhovna Rada...

A press conference of Rukh’s founding fathers, announced by People’s Movement of Ukraine Press Secretary Dmytro Ponamarchuk, has been met with interest by the mass media, with about fifty members of...

“Ukraine needs to change its attitude to visiting foreign nationals,” Colonel General Borys Oleksiyenko, chairman of Derzhkomkordon [State Committee for the Protection of the State Border], declared...

Broadcast journalist Ihor Aleksandrov was buried in the Southern Cemetery in Slovyansk on July 9. Eyewitnesses state that over 5,000 attending the funeral, among them residents, local officials,...

The current failure of Bank Ukrayina, like former less spectacular ones, highlights the fact that in Ukraine to bank on something does not at all mean that you can depend on it, as the English idiom...

At about 1:00 p.m. on July 13 part of the foundation pit under construction in Kyiv’s Independence Square when a heavy concrete slab on the corner by the Central Post Office, bearer of the former...

The seventh session of Verkhovna Rada ended on Friday the thirteenth of July, and the finale turned out rather calm. Its results are impressive in terms of bills passed: 479 resolutions passing 174...