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On December 15, Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko held another meeting of the government committee in charge of the fuel and energy sector reformat. High on the agenda was the question of “revolutionary...

Were Chornobyl to be closed in the United States, it would become the event of the year, perhaps decade. But then, America is America. The Americans have always been able to present their attainments...

Last Friday, fifteen years after the Chornobyl accident which has gone down in history as the greatest manmade disaster, unit three, the last operational unit at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (...

On the morning of December 11 Verkhovna Rada included in its daily agenda the issue of showing the video cassette with testimonial evidence of an individual who identified himself as SBU officer...

With everything else going on — tales of the headless, hapless journalist and all that — one should not lose sight of what will in historical terms surely be the week’s biggest story, the shutdown of...

December 12, 2000, marked the 110th birth anniversary of Andriy Melnyk, the longtime leader of one wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). He headed this organization in the most...

Germany is one of the key players in the European Union and NATO. For all its potential, Ukraine has thus far failed to influence European political processes. Still, Kyiv understands Ukraine’s...

The Day: The Transnistrian Moldovan Republic remains unrecognized in the world. Are you planning any steps to win this recognition in the near future? I. S.: Let’s see what steps have already...

The official website of Ukrainian President Kuchma has been opened on the Internet www.kuchma.gov.ua. The site hosts Leonid Kuchma’s biography and excerpts from the Constitution establishing the...

Italian Minister of Defense Sergio Mattarella on a visit to Kyiv discussed military cooperation with his Ukrainian counterpart Gen. Oleksandr Kuzmuk. The two ministers noted the ever increasing...

Over 300 Crimean Tatars held a public rally in Simferopol on Human Rights Day the Sunday before last. The demonstrators wielded slogans: “There will be no stability in the Crimea unless the Crimean...

The State Duma of Russia has adopted in its second reading the draft constitutional amendment, On the State Anthem of the Russian Federation. The melody of the former anthem of the USSR by the...

Interfax Ukraine reports that Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution at its last Thursday morning sitting, recommending that President Kuchma dismiss Leonid Derkach, Chief of the SBU (Security Service),...

The Daycontinues to track the various bills aimed at limiting the damages that can be sought in lawsuits against the mass media. Recall that the drafts of amendments to current laws regulating the...

“Things are moving,” ascertained participants of the Eighth All-Ukrainian Right to Information Human Rights Seminar held two weeks ago on the International Human Rights Day. IREX ProMedia and the...