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Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz urged people’s deputies to ask the US Embassy to carry out an independent forensic examination of the body assumed by some to be that of missing journalist Heorhy...

Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz’s November 28 statement at the morning session of Verkhovna Rada could not pass unnoticed. It is hard to think of another case in the history of the Ukrainian...

It was reported last week that the Pope would arrive in Ukraine on a pastoral visit on June 21-24, 2001. He will visit at the invitation of the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic (UGCC) and...

Nuclear power plants in Rivne and Khmelnytsky, where Ukraine is completing a construction of two reactors to compensate for power losses inflicted by the planned closure of the Chornobyl Nuclear...

“Under no circumstances will I run for the third presidential term,” President Kuchma declared on November 28, addressing a session of experts on domestic policy issues. “I am likely to have more...

The November 27 snowfall can in no way be called a natural abnormality. No weather forecasts are required to establish that snow is due this time of year. And its belated coming is no reason to...

As reported by the Ukrinform News Agency, President Kuchma has signed instructions to the Government agencies in the aftermath of the Council of Representatives of Crimean Tatars session held in...

During the visit of the President of Ukraine to Turkey Leonid Kuchma and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met in Istanbul. Secular and clerical leaders have discussed the situation in the...

As Volodymyr Maliborsky, chairman of the Simferopol Committee on Affairs of Religions, told journalists at a special press conference, joint efforts of the spiritual administration of the Crimea’s...

On November 30 The yellow budget bill (from the color of its cover) revised by the cabinet for the second reading was debated in the morning session of Verkhovna Rada. It was supposed to have taken...

Tetiana PALADINA, Ph.D. in biology: The reason we have no Nobel laureates has nothing to do with the Ukrainian character, our supposed peasant stubbornness and lack of enthusiasm for knowledge....

This year’s winter has brought on such meteorological cataclysms, such as icy roads, sticky wet snow, gusty winds, and abrupt changes in temperature. The very first test by cold led to serious power...

The scheduled CIS summit, which ended in Minsk on December 1, was important for Ukraine not so much by Commonwealth related matters — Kyiv does not seem to believe in CIS prospects even on the...

On November 28, Verkhovna Rada Ombudsman Nina Karpachova presented her report to parliament. Although the ombudsman’s office was instituted by lawmakers in April 1998, this is the first report of its...

After long and strained consultations at the OSCE meeting in Vienna, Ukraine recalled former Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk as candidate OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities. Ukraine’s...