№30, (2001)

Bacteriological warfare is on practically everyone’s lips, despite experts assuring that there is very little likelihood of Osama bin Laden’s people ever taking an interest in Ukraine. Yet, a kind of...

The President of Ukraine has accepted the resignation of Minister of Defense Gen. Oleksandr Kuzmuk. Pres. Kuchma announced this on October 24, when he appeared on Ukraine’s Television Channel One to...

About a century ago as my native Oklahoma was preparing to become a state, the Indians of what was still Indian Territory were given land allotments as private property, something they had never...

October 30: 1708. Peter I sent a charter to the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks promising not to oppress them and inviting the Zaporozhzhian starshyna (senior officers corps) to the town of Hlukhov to elect a...

The record index decline (7.22-40.62% a day) of the First Stock Trade System, as the principal formal stock market operated by Ukrainian business, resulted from the plummeting stock price of the...

The heart-rending September 11 events in New York dealt a heavy blow to air carriers worldwide, Aerosvit Director General Hryhory HURTOVY said on October 23. As he put it, “a downward tendency is...

Ukraine watched the September 11 tragedy on home screens courtesy of television companies in other countries. Yevhen Hlibovytsky, a leading 1+1 television journalist, was among the first Ukrainian...

Although Ukraine agrees to tightened control on its western borders, it is proposing the EU refrain from imposing stricter visa requirements on Ukrainian citizens. A statement to this effect was made...

As of January 1, 2002, twelve member countries of the European Currency Union, hereafter referred to as ECU, are to switch over to euros, with their national currencies gradually being withdrawn from...

For the time being, Mykola Azarov, head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, is not going to step down as leader of the Party of the Regions. “It would be absolutely wrong to make demoralizing...

President Leonid Kuchma has sent a letter to Speaker Ivan Pliushch, promising to do his best to have the 2002 parliamentary elections held on a fair, open, and transparent basis, in keeping with the...

Many regarded his statements and comments on Ukraine as shocking and chauvinistic. Meanwhile, he has done much to normalize Ukrainian-Russian relations. He can be called a cynic — and deservedly —...

On October 26, the central committee presidium of the Trade Union of Coal Miners had a session in Donetsk to discuss the union’s further actions, following the last week’s protest campaign. As Valery...

On October 24 Ukrainian servicemen who took part in UN peacemaking operations met with Defense Ministry top brass, the first such high-profile encounter so far. “The Ukrainian peacemakers have...

On October 25, Verkhovna Rada debated in the second reading the Land Code bill in a more than tense atmosphere. In protest against adoption of this so-called agrarian constitution (apparently aware...