№32, (2001)

On November 9 the Ukrainian Non-Governmental Helsinki Monitoring Group turned 25. Its leader Mykola Rudenko has announced that the main goals, freedom of expression and termination of political...

The leaders of 17 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, among them President Kuchma, approved an action plan at the Warsaw conference to combat terrorism. The plan envisages tightening frontier...

The recent active development of Ukrainian-Russian relations at various levels has raised media fears, “interpretations”, and rumors that Ukraine will as a result find itself in serious political and...

Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Vladimir Voronin of Moldova have made a “political decision” to instruct their countries’ governments to draft within ten days, in conjunction with...

November 13: 1708. Russian troops headed by Aleksandr Menshikov captured the town of Baturyn, the hetman’s capital, putting the fortress’s defenders and inhabitants to the sword. 1918. A secret...

In all probability, the Cabinet of Ministers will scrap its plans to raise salaries for employees of budget-supported organizations on December 1. In a letter to oblast governors marked for...

This year had been quite dramatic for the Ukrainian-American relations. Suffice is to recall Ambassador Pifer’s pedantic letter and the Ukrainian leaders’ irritated reaction and suspicions America...

It might sound funny, but last Tuesday an envelope containing white powder came to our editorial office. Around 10 a.m. the editor-in-chief’s office received a message, which at first sight did not...

On the work day of November 7, representatives of the Communist Party of Ukraine marked the 84th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup de etat in Petrograd. Apparently an important landmark, the...

On November 9 Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, reacting to presidential and media criticism and bowing to pressure from the coal miners’ trade union, held a cabinet meeting on the question of coal. The...

It is time Ukraine passed a full-fledged law on national security, Serhiy Pyrozhkov, deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, believes. On Thursday, addressing...

Long ago and far away, to be specific, in the latter half of the 1970s and the idyllic American university town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a young graduate student set off to write a doctoral...

The Supreme Court of Ukraine (SCU) has passed a judgment about the criminal case opened against former governors of the Slovyansky Bank. According to the ruling handed down by Vasyl Maliarenko, SCU...

Some prophets are known in this country, it seems. As predicted by Serhiy Koniev, currently in the NRU central office, the ballots of the coming parliamentary elections will have its own force, the...

Leonid Kuchma has ordered the dismissal of Yury Yekhanurov from the office of first deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration and chief of the cadres and regional cooperation general...