№38, (1998)

The deputy presidential chief of staff Pavlo Haidutsky declared that the government intends to confront the internal dumping on the sugar market by making the Ukrainian sugar market a wholesale one...

Former Speaker Oleksandr Moroz, interviewed in this issue, is a good and decent man. He says what he thinks and makes no bones about his socialist convictions, which he stuck to even when they were...

“Ukraine is against any kind of isolation of Belarus,” said President Leonid Kuchma in Vienna. Ukraine was not asked, however, when Belarus, due to systematic moves of its President Lukashenka, had...

“I will do everything possible to nominate a joint opposition candidate able to win in the next presidential election,” said Pavlo Lazarenko, leader of the All-Ukrainian Hromada Union at a press...

October 27, 1882: Mykola Kropyvnytsky's itinerant professional Ukrainian drama group appears with the first performance in Yelizavethrad (now Kirovohrad). October 27, 1991: Ukraine and Uzbekistan...

Last year the Chase Manhattan Luxembourg S.A. Bank granted Ukraine a fiduciary loan totaling $98.89 million at 9.2% annual interest. October 20 is the pay back deadline. As we know, the government...

Last Thursday, Verkhovna Rada finally confirmed Oleksandr Bondar as Chairman of the State Property Fund. As we know, the Left had long projected its attitude toward privatization on the Fund’s...

Many good actors star in the film embodying quite confidently and sometimes too convincingly the main heroic – in various senses – characters: militiamen, not-overburdened with moral principles...

Last week the Verkhovna Rada delayed consideration of the Cabinet bill on the "specificities of the privatization" of Ukraine's giant national company, Ukrtelekom (Ukrainian Telecommunications). The...

The hard currency market reacted promptly to Yeltsin’s long-lasting bronchitis – the US dollar costs one and a half rubles more than before. Russia, that is experiencing a deep structural and...

According to the deputy chairman of the State Tax Administration Vadym Kopylov, violations of tax legislation by subjects of the economic activity in 1998 were over one and a half times those of last...

Eight years ago the students on October Revolution Square (now Independence Square) were able to do what three Verkhovna Rada factions failed to do three weeks ago: bring down the government....

Vyacheslav Chornovil (Rukh), Mykola Porovsky (Republican Christian Party), Viktor Prysiazhniuk (Peasants’ Democratic Party), Volodymyr Stretovych (Christian Popular Union), and Borys Bezpaly (NDP)...

IMF Comes Out of Crisis: Will Ukraine Follow Suit? Over the past several months IMF has been exposed to so much criticism that there were times when analysts thought it would not survive its...

Forty children who have chosen to part with their lives during the first half of this year are at first glance an insignificant part of the 7898 suicides committed in Ukraine over this period....