№31, (2001)

“Did you hear?” my stepdaughter called from the Ukrainian League of Philanthropists where she works. “Petro Jacyk died.” That evening I called Mykailo Slaboshpytsky, executive director of that...

On October 31, government representatives of the US and Ukraine, Vice Premier Leonid Kozachenko and Director of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) mission in Ukraine, Belarus...

Israeli Vice Premier and Minister for Construction Natan Shcharansky, who heads an Israeli interdepartmental committee extending aid to the next of kin of those who perished in the crash of the ill-...

On October 28, a museum of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Commander-in-Chief General Roman Shukhevych opened in the village of Bilohorshcha near Lviv. The museum opened in the building which in 1948...

A real pogrom took place at the Russian capital as some 300 youngsters, believed by the Moscow police to be soccer fans acting under the influence of drugs and alcohol (as reported by the Russian...

On November 1 the Ukrainian delegation led by Premier Anatoly Kinakh returned from the United States. Meetings and talks in Washington culminated in Mr. Kinakh’s meeting with US trade representative...

The Variag aircraft carrier that had broken off towline Sunday and drifted in the Aegean for 14 hours is now again secured and on the way to China. The incident with the heavy cruiser-carrier sold to...

Oleksandr DERHACHOV, political scientist: The on-going formation of election blocs has clarified the multiparty political landscape. The Left is represented primarily by the Communists. Next come...

On October 30, the last Ukrainian ICBM silo for rockets called RS-22 here or SS-24 in the West and located near Pervomaisk in Mykolayiv oblast was destroyed. In so doing, Ukraine has fully met its...

President Leonid Kuchma signed a new version of the law On the Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine, which was recently passed by Verkhovna Rada, Presidential Press Secretary Ihor Storozhuk told...

It was possible that the Ukrainian antiaircraft missile hit the Tu-154 because of the “factor of water surface reflection.” National Defense and Security Council (NDSC) Secretary Yevhen Marchuk...

A sensational piece of news has come from Donetsk, where shadow privatization celebrated its first and decisive victory. The auctioned-off thermal power plants (TPP) of Donbasenerho, this country’s...

There are negative trends in Ukraine’s information theater of operations, increasing the threat to our national interests in the foreign policy sphere and harming Ukraine’s image abroad, concluded an...

November 6: 1943. Kyiv was liberated from Nazi German troops. 1996 . The first session of the bilateral Ukrainian-American Kuchma- Gore Commission was held. November 7: 1940. The Congress of...

At their October 30 press conference, representatives of the Communist fraction in parliament tried to convince the public that Verkhovna Rada violated its rules when enacting the Land Code in its...