№34, (2001)

November 27: 1648. A universal was made public by the Polish King Jan II Casimir guaranteeing privileges for the Cossacks. 1918. The Ukrainian Academy of Science was created in Kyiv, electing...

The cases of Ukrainian journalists Heorhy Gongadze and Ihor Aleksandrov are still hot topics on the international scene, while in Ukraine they have lately lost their edge, Ambassador of the United...

At its open plenary session on November 20 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine made public its verdict annulling the propyska, mandatory registration of Ukrainians with the police, with the latter...

As stressed by Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Speaker Viktor Medvedchuk, problems related to rent and utilities payments are to be addressed not by raising the tariffs but by restructuring the existing...

A nuclear reactor that has stood idle for about a year is waiting to be reactivated at the Kyiv Nuclear Research Institute. The reactor built for nuclear research in Kyiv is one of a kind in Ukraine...

Committee-2005, founded in November 2001 to discuss the ways of offsetting the consequences of the infrastructure crisis imminent in Ukraine, held its first session on November 22. Under discussion...

Of course, it is somewhat incorrect to line up Polish Social Democrat Aleksander Kwasniewski, Moldovan Communist Vladimir Voronin, and Bulgarian Socialist Georgy Pyrvanov. The three are united...

The City Court of Sofia (Bulgaria) has suspended a member of the panel of judges from the case of Ukrainian nationals Oleksandr Rusov and Oleksiy Kychatov, suspected of slaying Bulgarian former...

Verkhovna Rada stands a good chance to pass four codes before the end of its eighth session, the Ukrainian parliament’s first Vice Chairman Viktor Medvedchuk told the Media Personnel Association on...

This year the world media did not dedicate much ink to the problems of Kosovo, unjustifiably eclipsed as they were, first, by violence in Macedonia and alleged supplies (or no supplies) of Ukrainian...

Afghanistan is gripped by war that has actually continued for the past 26 years. Thousands if not tens of thousands have fled their country this month alone, seeking refuge in Pakistan, Iran, or in...

Minister of Defense Volodymyr Shkidchenko said there was an urgent need to launch “broadly based organizational and research work to mobilize potential and available resources of the Armed Forces of...

President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine has announced he is not going to run for presidency in the 2004 elections. “This is a lie,” the head of state emphasized, addressing students of the Ostroh Academy...

On November 24, under the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated October 31, 2000, Ukraine observed for the second time the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Famine and Political Repression....

In readying the draft state budget for its second reading, the Cabinet of Ministers increased expenditures for defense, law and order, and security by UAH 228.7 million, including UAH 150 million for...