№23, (2000)

It is easy to be the Ivan Marchuk of the last year of the century when the national media rush to be the first to write about him in force-majeure and elevated style, when those in power seek to meet...

September 12: 1898. The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was opened. 1996. The Youth Aerospace Education Center was inaugurated in Dnipropetrovsk. September 13: 1866. Ukraine’s first railroad, from...

Peacemaking. Prevention of conflicts, including nuclear ones. The necessity of UN involvement in settling conflicts on CIS territory. The overall necessity of UN reinforcement, confirmation of the UN...

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 third audit of National Bank of Ukraine’s operations with its hard currency reserves during the period from January 31 to September 30, 1998, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), contains...

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...

As the off season draws to a close, Ukraine staged quite an event, the First Ukraine’s Stars of Culinary Art Festival organized by the Kyiv City State Administration, the Kyiv International Contract...

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...

Ukraine’s main achievement as a result of Viktor Yushchenko’s participation in the annual economic forum at Krynica, Poland, was that Polish Prime Minister, Jerzy Buzek, confirmed that Warsaw opposes...

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 State Property Fund of Ukraine will put on sale a 68% block of stock in the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Plant (ZALK) and 31% of the AvtoZAZ Plant sometime in September. The managers of these two plants...

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...

Last week it was fifteen years since Vasyl Stus, the talented Ukrainian poet, long-term prisoner of conscience, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group perished tragically in one of the infamous...

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...

This is the title — even without the question mark — of an article by the American Stratfor Analytical Center. The article is based on the analysis of recent talks between the Gazprom management and...