№27, (2001)

October 9: 1655. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s army defeated the Poles at Horodok. 1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Union of Youth Organizations of Ukraine. October 10: 1932....

On October 1 Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) staged special tactical antiterrorist exercises in the docks of the Yalta seaport. Similar training operations have been conducted on the peninsula on a...

The National Bank of Ukraine’s net international reserves (excess of assets over liabilities) has hit a record high of $610.3 million as of late September, compared with the $596.4 million deficit...

The agreement signed puts to an end the problem of Ukrainian debts for Russian natural gas, Russian Premier Mikhail Kasianov, who arrived in Kyiv for negotiations, said on October 4. But the end at...

New information has appeared, concerning the scandalous bankruptcy of Ukraine’s largest electricity generating company, Donbasenerho. The State Property Fund is fighting in court to return to public...

“According to preliminary reports, in the nine months of 2001 over UAH 3.2 billion has been appropriated [by tax inspectors] to the budget from the shadow sector,” First Deputy Director of the State...

The second project of the International Labor Organization to modernize employer-employee relationships will soon begin in Ukraine. The first, meant to combat unlawful child labor, has been underway...

Ukraine will not stand aside from the struggle against terrorism and is prepared to support it, President Kuchma declared several days after US and British forces attacked Afghanistan. Even though...

President Leonid Kuchma has exercised his veto power over the parliamentary election law passed by Verkhovna Rada on September 13, expressing a number of critical remarks. It will be recalled that...

The Tsesarenko family living in an ordinary apartment in the ancient Ukrainian city of Kamyanets-Podilsky placed a long- distance call to Poland Friday evening October 5 to congratulate Leszek Miller...

When terrorists on September 11 crossed even those lines of decency that nobody had ever before dared to, and the United States had to recognize that an act of war had been committed against it,...

Another session of the German land court in Hildesheim on October 4 continued to try the combined case of Zherdytsky-Didenko accused of walking away with 4 million marks in compensation to the...

The visit of Rudolf Seiters, Vice President of the German Bundestag, who, incidentally, represents the now opposition Christian Democratic Union, has coincided with two dates: the sixtieth...

The situation with the Tu-154 passenger jet crash over the Black Sea is so puzzling that even now it is everybody’s guess what really caused the accident. The Sibir airliner, on a chartered...

On October 1 President Leonid Kuchma visited the Kyiv-based Center for Rapid Response to Crisis Situations at the Ministry of Defense and the Air Defense Command. This establishment is one of the...