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According to the State Statistics Committee, foreign investment in the Ukrainian economy reached $420.1 million in the first six months of 2000, a 58.6% increase over the same period of last year....

September 5: 1924. Members of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) attempted to assassinate Polish President Stanislaw Wojciechowski. 1990. The International Symposium on Manmade Famine in...

The new academic year began in Ukraine on September 1. That it would be an unusual year for schoolchildren was so much talked and written about earlier. And what about the college students? Nearly a...

I can tell to the minute when I always feel best here: eight a.m. on September 1. It is then that I can look out on the usually barren landscape from my Troyeshchyna balcony and watch the footpaths...

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Crimea has again summed up the results of elections in the 39th electoral district. Since the local commission confirmed its earlier ruling that the...

Last week about 6,000 people, mostly pensioners, blocked traffic on Donetsk’s central street. The pickets’ main demands were to slash public utility rates and the price of bread, as well as to grant...

In due time, Independence Day might become a true holiday — if not for us, for our children — when we will be proud of our state, the way United States citizens take pride in their country on July 4...

UKRAINE’S DILEMMA: HOPELESS BACKWARDNESS OR ADVANCED MOVEMENT Both foreign and Ukrainian analysts unanimously claim that the greatest threats to Ukraine’s national security have been caused by...

“To lobby the nation’s interests in general and economic ones in particular” is how President Leonid Kuchma spelled out the main task for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when addressing Ukraine’s...

“Only de Gaulle could free Algeria; only Nixon could open up China.” Behind these slogans rests an notable principle: self-interest often causes political parties to radically depart from, even to...

German Minister of Finance Hans Eichel (photo), opened the Ukrainian stand at the EXPO-2000 international exhibition in Hanover together with Premier Viktor Yushchenko. According to the German...

During his one-day visit to Slovakia, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk signed with his Slovak counterpart Pavel Kanis an intergovernmental agreement on additional confidence-building and...

Five Ukrainians, aged 28 to 42, decided to mark their country’s Independence Day in an original way. These compatriots of ours tried on that day to cross the English Channel, separating France and...

When you ask some people you know how much cable television costs them, they will answer tersely: “A lot.” And by no means because it really makes “a lot” but because nowadays any amount cut from the...

Recently more than one restaurant that you would be more likely to see on Main Street, USA than in Ukraine, has opened in Kharkiv. BASKIN ROBBINS With two Kharkiv locations. Baskin Robbins is...