№29, (2001)

Additional preventive measures have been stepped up in Ukraine as envelopes containing anthrax spores are mailed to the USA. As Ukrposhta (Ukraine’s state postal service) Security and Control Service...

The European choice is gradually becoming a sacral question for Ukraine. Unfortunately, it increasingly resembles the dogmatic slogans of the Soviet leadership, such as “We stand for universal peace...

The 2002 parliamentary campaign will be the hardest ever, primarily for the electorate as information will flood in; people will hear about deals and compromises, vague old and new party structures;...

She is one of those who believe in Ukraine and acts accordingly. In 1996, she left Paris to settle in Ukraine and has been here ever since. She comes from an emigre family and is now the proprietor...

“Ukraine has always supported the aspirations of the Palestinians to create their own state,” Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko declared on October 15 during a joint press conference with the Minister...

Pakistan has found itself quite in a quandary. On the one hand, that country’s leadership has expressed a desire to maintain comprehensive cooperation with the international community in combating...

The American-British military operation in Afghanistan and the Russian plane crash over the Black Sea are two absolutely different and absolutely far from equivalent events that have in common only...

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who visited the Russian capital to inaugurate the Days of Polish Science, looked pleased. And no wonder, for it was for the first time in many years that he...

Ukraine integration into the European Union, proclaimed as a top foreign political priority in the president’s inauguration message of November 1999 and included in the cabinet’s program as a...

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, and First Vice Speaker Viktor Medvedchuk top the September’s list of the most influential Ukrainian politicians. Monthly influence...

On October 17, Verkhovna Rada considered in the first reading the 2002 budget bill. “The government-submitted draft 2002 state budget is not sufficiently transparent. The document reveals...

President Leonid Kuchma believes that the “non-implementation,” by Verkhovna Rada, of the decisions of the all-Ukraine referendum of April 16, 2000 will have “negative political and moral...

On October 17 the likelihood of passing the restated elections bill, returned to parliament by the president, remained low. It was only after the leaders of ten factions and group met with Leonid...

October 23: 1921. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was revived. 1990. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR ratified an amendment to the Constitution, canceling the Sixth Clause on the...

On October 19, a special commission was established with Ivan Fomenko, first deputy of the Kyiv City Administration, at the head to examine the ecological situation at the Radykal Plant (Desniansky,...