№23, (2000)

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...

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...

There are topics in Ukrainian policy and economics which are not acceptable to be discussed and especially analyzed during certain time periods lest one harm the state’s relations of the state with...

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...

Ten valiant knights once gathered in one of the world’s oldest nooks looking like a rhombus-shaped talisman around the neck. What the united representatives of various spiritual trends — noble...

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...

The five Ukrainian citizens who decided on our Independence Day to cross the English Channel on a homemade boat and asked for asylum in Great Britain are unlikely to get a positive answer from Albion...

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

In the message of the President of Ukraine to Verkhovna Rada, “Ukraine, a Step into the Twenty-First Century: Strategy of Economic and Social Development for 2000 — 2004,” it is stressed that...