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“True, they made us play outside the law,” Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund Chechetov had to admit, commenting on the outcome of the tender selling 68.1% stock of the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum...

“France is a world scale investor, and one can especially feel this within the context of the European Union. We are ready to do still more to invest in the Ukrainian economy. But a great deal...

The soldiers of the First Detached Special-Purpose Regiment (a.k.a. presidential) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine took their oath of allegiance on December 4. As the Ministry of Defense...

A press conference organized by the Ukrainian Journalist Solidarity Association on December 6 presented the book Taras Shevchenko the Werewolf by Oles Buzyna, writer and journalist. His new work had...

“What were the reasons why your candidacy was put forward?” “This step was well justified and logical. Having one of Europe’s best laws on national minorities, which meets the high OSCE and...

On December 7 the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved in London a $215 million Ukrainian nuclear project to finish the construction of two units...

Maria Marchak-Tomain was born in Kosmach, a village in Kosiv district Ivan Frankivsk oblast, but has lived and worked in Paris for quite a while. There she made her name, as evidenced by eight...

President Leonid Kuchma addressed the nation on the first national channel on December 6, saying that “events these past couple of days show that Ukraine is being pushed to a point beyond which there...

Former Premier of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko told the San Francisco District Court last Wednesday that he does not intend to plead either guilty or innocent. The text of this statement was submitted by...

Power Unit Four in Chornobyl blew up fourteen years ago. Ukraine proclaimed its independence ten years ago. All these years we have wholeheartedly cursed the Soviet Union, blaming it for all seven...

President Kuchma has signed an order, On Additional Measures to Secure the Unimpeded Performance of the Mass Media and Further Asserting the Freedom of Expression in Ukraine. Mr. Kuchma told...

The diplomatic battles focused on the alternative gas pipeline to carry Russian natural gas to Western Europe, bypassing Ukraine, are still underway and Poland is invariably in the limelight as the...

The residents of Lviv are looking forward to the premiere of Oles Yanchuk’s motion picture, The Unconquered, about Roman Shukhevych (Chuprynka), Commander-in- Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (...

For more than two centuries historians and antiquarians have searched with no apparent success for this mysterious river. They have advanced various hypotheses and interpreting the text of the poetic...

The German Government has donated 50,000 marks worth of medicine to a Pervomaisk hospital in Mykolayiv oblast. The medicines will be used to treat the victims of the ecological catastrophe that...