№28, (2001)

Any history student knows that there are no lasting empires; each emerges, reaches maturity, even glory, and then invariably falls apart. Prof. Samuel P. Huntington noted that every continent (...

President Leonid Kuchma is not excluding the possibility of Ukraine giving humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, yet believes it not expedient. “They can manage without us,” he stated in an October 10...

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma received a letter from American President George Bush the Younger expressing his gratitude for the support and promising to study Ukraine’s offers to help with...

In the wake of a decision by major international insurance companies taken after the terrorists attacks on the US to reduce their liabilities for aviation risks to $50 million, Ukrainian airlines are...

“After a long period of crisis the labor market has recently shown some stabilization and gradual growth of public employment,” Ivan Sakhan, Minister of Labor and Social Policies, told the Ukrainian...

The personal income tax currently levied on the Ukrainian citizenry is computed using a scale other than that prescribed by the law, meaning that every month the Ukrainian taxpayers part with UAH 283...

On October 12 Ukrainian Security and Defense Council Secretary Yevhen Marchuk said in Sochi, “Relying on the conclusions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine which took part in the work of the Russian...

The Head of the Security Council of the UN presented its condolences to the government of Ukraine and the families of the three Ukrainian citizens, crewmembers of the Mi-8 helicopter, which was...

On October 9, representatives of Ukraine’s so-called Antiglobalist Front, a non-governmental organization, joined by so-called national Bolsheviks, picketed the US Embassy in Kyiv. The demonstrators...

We view Ukraine’s perspective in terms of at least 6 to 7% permanent economic growth contingent on the creation by the state of the appropriate economic environment. Not merely tax breaks for the...

“I don’t like what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.” This phrase perhaps best sums up the classic American credo that is now embraced by virtually all the West’s...

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a Concept of State Property Management. According to this document, the financial plans of enterprises are subject to government control and the government will...

From now on poverty will be fought at the highest official level, precisely by launching a comprehensive national program aimed at securing the “Strategy to Overcome Poverty” adopted by the president...

Ten days ago, the announcement of the crash of a Tu-154 airliner en route from Tel-Aviv to Novosibirsk simultaneously with a Ukrainian air defense live-fire exercise in Crimea, alarmed many of us....

October 12-14 saw the Second Congress of Ukrainian Germans represented by German communities from all this country’s regions. Ukraine’s largest German diaspora lives in the Crimea. The German...