№26, (2003)

A great distance separates Ukraine and Japan, which makes the search for common interests and topics for a permanent dialog somewhat complicated. However, much has changed recently, with high...

Ukrainian peacekeepers in Iraq now have their own website. You can receive detailed information about the life of our contingent in that country by clicking on www.mil. gov.ua/5ombr/index. php....

Ukraine’s government postponed considering draft documents on creating the Single Economic Space (SES) between Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan for one week. The decision was made by...

In late July Vienna hosted a special OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) conference on religious tolerance. This topic has again become a burning issue in Europe now that the...

Ukrane’s Association of Humanists and the newspaper Robitnycha hazeta [Workers’ Gazette] staged an interesting experiment in Kyiv recently. It was meant to check just how decent the residents were....

The Ukrainian coal lobby has formulated its demands to the government and parliament. Last Wednesday the Congress of the Trade Union of Coal Industry Workers (TUCIW) opened in Kyiv, with Union...

September 15 will mark the 110th anniversary of the first issue of Svoboda (Freedom), by far the oldest Ukrainian newspaper still being published in the world. Now being read not only in the US but...

Reforming today’s army means that military units must master not only the most up-to- date battle techniques but also effectively rescuing and rehabilitating soldiers who have for some reason got...

September 16: 1651 . Cossacks in Bila Tserkva rebelled, unsatisfied with the conditions of the peace treaty with Poland. 1914. The first Ukrainian sharpshooters in the Austro-Hungarian Army swore...

On September 10, Verkhovna Rada considered a Cabinet of Ministers bill on the national program to adapt Ukraine’s legislation to that of the EU. Under the bill, adapting legislation is the process of...

Despite an infinite number of malicious inventions, myths, and intentional distortions, history still remains a science, not a well or poorly compiled collection of tales. It can even be an “exact...

President of the Project on Transitional Democracies and the non-governmental US Committee on NATO Bruce JACKSON is quite well known in Central and Eastern Europe. Some analysts use to say...

Instead of speaking about full or associate EU membership, concentrate on negotiations about signing the Action Plan next year. This was the leitmotif of the meetings European Commissioner for...

The Yanukovych government has mentioned for the first time the need to create a national oil company. On September 11 Premier Yanukovych stated that the government needs a powerful tool to control...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accepted the European Commission resolution on the procedure of crossing the European Union’s outer borders and on the issue of free visas to citizens of...