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On September 20, the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee considered the draft 2001 State Budget and determined the schedule for its passage by parliament. This actually begins the budget process for next...

September 26: 1991. The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered the Party of the Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine. 1995. Ukraine joined the Council of Europe. September 27: 1906. The first...

On September 21, the parliamentary majority elected a new coordinator (according to the agreement, a new majority coordinator is elected at each parliamentary session). As predicted, the nod was...

The Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee, headed by Yuliya Tymoshenko before her vice premiership, currently under Oleksandr Turchynov, also of the Batkivshchyna faction, submitted a draft resolution on...

The Day ’s reporters saw a preview of the new program somewhat grandiloquently called “The Road of Courage and Inspiration” on the eve of its opening. The preview, more precisely, dress rehearsal, is...

When Ukrainian journalists were discussing the prospects for our national team on the eve to the Sydney Olympics, many were quite skeptical young girl swimmer Yana Klochkova’s chances. They would say...

Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Director Leonid Derkach pledges to hold a press conference this week on an alleged plot by residents of Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy oblasts. Those being held...

To paraphrase a popular literary hero [Ostap Bender in Ilf’s and Petrov’s Twelve Chairs —Ed.], a mobile phone is not a luxury but a means of communications, although I am afraid some might fail to...

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma made a number of important statements during the September 19 seminar for regional mass media in Kyiv. First of all, Kuchma considers it impossible for the Russian...

Slovakia will not adopt decisions relating to natural gas, that “would harm the interests of Ukraine,” said Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan in a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys...

Mariya TARASIUK, military servicewoman: “What comes first for a human being is health. So I would like my taxes to be used to fund medicine and above all to raise doctors’ salaries. Not without...

The series of ecological disasters that have recently haunted Ukraine was continued by an incident at a school in the village of Bedrikivtsi, Ternopil oblast. According to Interfax-Ukraine, six...

In continuation of our story about the Krok-2000 International Festival of Animated Films, I cannot avoid again touching on the topic of contrasts. They not only accompanied on the whole trip from...

On September 21, the Ukrainian women archers won silver medals at the Sydney Olympics. Olena Sadovnycha, Kateryna Serdiuk, and Natalia Burdeina went successfully through the qualifications and beat...

In accordance with US recommendations, the IMF will reduce the term for a number of its credit programs and increase interest rates for loans, the Bloomberg Agency reported. According to US Secretary...