№33, (2001)

Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX stayed in Ukraine from October 29 to November 9. His visit was linked to the 1700th anniversary of Armenian Christianity, as well as to the 100th...

On November 15 Verkhovna Rada passed the 2002 budget bill, displaying rare unanimity (274 ayes) and accepting the budget committee’s findings and proposals. The cabinet is instructed to adequately...

President Leonid Kuchma, greeting on November 16 award- winning television, radio, and telecommunications personalities, called on the media to show “healthy objectivity and act in compliance with...

According to the latest estimate by Ukraine’s Ministry of the Economy and European Integration, the following macroeconomic indices are expected to rise in 2001: GDP by 8.2% (against the planned 7.3...

On November 13, President Leonid Kuchma signed the Land Code, Presidential Press Secretary Ihor Storozhuk told Interfax-Ukraine. According to him, the law will take effect as of January 1, 2002....

US President George W. Bush has reiterated America’s readiness to strengthen strategic partnership relationship with Ukraine, in part, via dialogue at the highest level. He made a statement to this...

The government commissions of Ukraine and Russia have signed in Sumy a final protocol on Ukrainian-Russian border delimitation. Under the document, all the 1925 kilometers of land border between the...

Jan Marinus Wiersma, head of the European Parliament’s delegation on relations with Ukraine, told The Day that Ukraine is in the early phase of democracy, despite its problems with the rule of law,...

While Yuliya Tymoshenko is attaching her name to election blocs and preparing for a triumphal entry of her very special alleged beauty into a new parliament, another most popular lady politician,...

Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s most popular politician, left his post as premier half a year ago. In the spring, when his popularity was at its peak, the issue was on everyone’s mind and many insisted...

The latest meeting of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatars gave me a certain feeling of pride that Ukraine, for all the shortcomings about which I have written so many times, is at least trying to do...

With the world’s leading air companies still reeling from the September 11 terrorist attacks, another blow has been dealt to the prestige of civil aviation. Experts estimate that air companies have...

One of the results of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the United States was a promise to repeal, with respect to Russia, the Jackson- Vanik Amendment which stands in the way of normal...

On November 17 1.2 million Ukrainian students, in anticipation of their winter exams, observed for the second time their own professional holiday. Although Minister for Education and Science Vasyl...

The voice of the Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs has also been heard in Israel. Ukraine’s intention to join the club of Middle East conflict mediators is beginning to assume a more or less...