№35, (2001)

The river, sustaining serious damage from NATO air raids in 1999, has now been officially declared safe for navigation. The Danube Commission announced that the river had been cleared of debris from...

The time has come to hold pre-election party conferences and congresses in the Crimea. The outlines of the future elections are already discernible. It is beyond a doubt today that there will be only...

The adoption of legislation designed to protect intellectual property and fair parliamentary elections are currently the two most pressing issues in Ukrainian-US relations. At any rate, one would...

“We have witnessed an impressive breakthrough in our bilateral relations,” Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana stressed during his visit to Kyiv. Bucharest really wants only to cajole the West...

Having voted down the government’s bill on the 2002 budget in its second reading, the people’s deputies have at last passed the Civil and Economic Codes in the third reading and voted on the Tax Code...

On November 26 President Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, and National Bank Governor Volodymyr Stelmakh held a special meeting to discuss the current situation and development prospects...

As I write, my wife is at home awaiting the census taker’s ring on the doorbell this evening. As one who has had some experience in dealing with not completely dissimilar problems, I can only echo...

1638. The Cossack Rada approved the Ordinations (Statute) of the Zaporozhzhian Register Army in the Masliv Stav ravine. 1939. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR acknowledged fixing...

The CIS jubilee summit is over. President Vladimir Putin of Russia, addressing the final press conference, called upon his counterparts to raise the true effectiveness of the CIS, to establish...

Just a year ago, Oleksandr Moroz played in Verkhovna Rada the first installment of Major Melnychenko’s tapes, having thus turned one of the murkiest pages in new millennium’s history of Ukraine. This...

On December 1, 1991, over 90% of the Ukrainian electorate voted for independence. The December referendum was at the same time the election of our sovereign state’s first president: the people chose...

On November 29, the article-by- article reading of the 2002 budget bill did not go further than the first article, as 176 of 414 lawmakers registered as present voted for the cabinet version of the...

“Preparations for the next election begin the day after the last one” is one of Central Election Committee Chairman My khailo Riabets pet phrases. This is quite true with regard to the CEC. Now that...

“The agency monitoring howclean of money turnover in Ukraine is must be independent of the authorities directly involved in finance; it must be officially organized at the earliest possible date,”...

President Leonid Kuchma said on November 29 in Moscow, during his talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, that Ukraine and Russia “should not sweep their current problems under the rug,”...