№23, (2000)

The Ukrainian media have begun lately to carry more and more materials on the selection of a state model (Den/The Day, Zerkalo nedeli/Dzerkalo tyzhdnia, Biznes, Kommersant). Similar debates can be...

Kyiv’s Pechersk district court has upheld the suit of Ihor Didenko, former chairman of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny (Oil...

Under legislation in force, the Cabinet of Ministers supposed is to submit to Verkhovna Rada the next year’s draft budget on September 15 at the latest. It is too early to analyze it in detail: what...

As some of the economics commentary in this issue indicate, the Yushchenko Cabinet is under attack, and if Yushchenko goes, I think that the consequences for both Ukraine and the international...

The start of a new political season in parliament and, accordingly, the forthcoming political and economic decisions important for this country’s further development (implementation of the referendum...

The sixth session of Verkhovna Rada, predicted to make decisions revolutionary for Ukraine, has started off. The beginning looked completely banal and commonplace: Speaker Ivan Pliushch simply told...

There were a host of first-time things at the Millennium Summit. For the first time, a delegation turned back halfway (North Korea). For the first time in the five years Fidel Castro visited the...

Russian State Duma Speaker Gennady SeleznСv, who attended the closing ceremony of the TV and cinema forum “Together in the Third Millennium,” spared no words to extol the Crimea’s contribution to the...

In 2000 the funds transferred to Loro accounts (foreign banks’ accounts in Ukrainian banks —Ed.) from enterprises dodging the VAT have increased four to five-fold compared to last year. This was the...

Minister of Finance Ihor Mitiukov confirmed on September 5 that if no new foreign loans arrive in Ukraine, his ministry will suggest that the government sequester expenditures provided for in the...

What I remember most from the traditional economic forum that took place the week before last in the Polish resort town of Krynica are two debates. One of them, about Russia, was utterly scandalous....

Russia has given three-months’ notice of withdrawing from the Bishkek Agreement on Visa-Free Movement of Citizens within the CIS. This news has, for some reason, triggered a not-so-positive reaction...

The European Commission, one of the European Union’s governing bodies, has approved a scheme to grant Ukraine financial assistance to complete the construction of two nuclear reactors at the Rivne...

It does not seem likely that Borys Tarasiuk, Ukraine’s foreign minister, is going to lose his job. He is one of the few ministers who retained their places in the cabinet after Viktor Yushchenko...

The Green Party of Ukraine is holding on September 6-7 an all- Ukrainian campaign to forestall disasters at radioactive waste burial grounds. According the Green leadership, all Radon state-run...