№36, (2004)

Last Tuesday the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ukraine received a petition from 42 people’s deputies claiming that parliament passed an unconstitutional decision to adjust the current presidential...

Yesterday the International Advanced Study Center was the first to publish statistics addressing the economic aspect of the political crisis that gripped Ukraine after the runoff. IASC experts...

“A privilege to be called Ukrainian” — this is how participants attending the All-Ukrainian Viche (“council”) last Saturday characterized the Development Plan of the Country, which the...

James Sherr, leading expert with the British Military Academy’s Conflict Study Center, oxford lecturer, is versed in what is happening in the international arena as well as in the post-soviet...

On Thursday Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych said that he would not accept a victory by his opponent in the December 26 rerun of Ukraine’s contested presidential race and that his supporters were...

Professor Abraham Brouwer, director of the Amsterdam-based Bio Detection Systems laboratory that studies environmental toxicity, has identified the type of dioxin that poisoned Viktor Yushchenko, a...

The events of the two post-election weeks could have been predicted as early as in July, but not at all because protest plans were formulated long before the campaign, as some experts believe....

The Verkhovna Rada and the president have come under a storm of rather bizarre accusations of violating the Constitution. On December 8 the people’s deputies passed a law signed by Leonid Kuchma “On...

December 21. 1944. The Council to Assist the Western Oblasts was founded as a part of the government of Ukrainian SSR. 1991. A declaration of CIS member states was ratified in Almaty. December 22....

Although the latest political turmoil adversely affected the financial market, the hryvnia’s exchange rate remains stable, thanks mainly to a political decision made by the National Bank of Ukraine...

Viktor Yushchenko’s meeting with domestic media people last Wednesday night turned out to be different from the “tight circle” format anticipated by everyone on the guest list. This and the fact that...

By Vytautas LANDSBERGIS To divide a people in order to conquer them is an immoral strategy that has endured throughout recorded history. From Alexander the Great to Stalin the Cruel, variants of that...

Ahead of the December 26 rerun of the runoff elections, more and more people are voicing their views of the events unfolding in Ukraine and offering their forecasts of how the situation will develop...

The Writers’ Union of Ukraine has been so preoccupied with the current problems and their resolution, which involved even the country’s judiciary, legislative, and executive authorities, that it...

Andriy Shevchenko, a.k.a Sheva, is the best soccer player, not just for his fans in Ukraine or Italy but in all of Europe. On December 13 he officially received the Golden Ball (photo), which is...