№4, (2001)

It is interesting to think whether anybody would have thought of putting up tents in Ukraine as a way of protesting only three months ago. We all knew about rallies, demonstrations, picketing,...

The An-70 airplane on a Kyiv- Omsk-Yakutsk flight crash-landed the Saturday before last. Four minutes after takeoff its two port engines failed one after the other, leaving the crew no alternative...

On the eve of a festive date, the tenth anniversary of Ukrainian independence, we try over and over again to spot the sources of our failures in building our state. What is preventing us from...

For various reasons, the ongoing substantive reform of Ukraine’s electoral system deserves public scrutiny. First, the overhaul of the country’s election system, by its nature and consequences,...

Last week again passed for Ukraine under the sign of the Council of Europe. The last days before the opening of its session the Parliamentary Assembly decided to hold hearings on the status of the...

According to a January 30 Constitutional Court decision, the High Court cannot rule on Ukraine’s entrance into the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly (IPA), because this is a political, not legal act...

Vice Premier of Ukraine for Industrial Policies Oleh Dubyna is going to pursue his own course, including one on the fuel and energy complex. “I have a policy of my own,” he said Wednesday at his...

The week before last the Ukrainian Memory of Mercury shipwrecked in the Black Sea. For the last time the vessel was in communication at 5:30 p.m. on January 26. Neither boats nor the coast services...

Sunday evening before last in southern Dnipropetrovsk oblast as a result of an automobile accident People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksandr Yemets was mortally injured. According to the official report...

Ukraine has begun to pay its debt to the Itera International Group of Companies for previously consumed natural gas, Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko said last Tuesday (according to the Ministry for...

A situation which has resulted in yet another trouble spot in Ukraine’s information space, earlier seemed to be without conflict. At least, this was the message of Friday’s press conference of...

February 6: 1958. The Cinematographer’s Union of Ukraine was created. February 7: 1927. The Council of Ministers of the USSR approved a decision On Construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power...

On February 1 foreign energy companies bidding for the controlling shares of Ukrainian oblenerho (regional electric) enterprises submitted to the National Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC)...

Oleksandr DERHACHOV, political scientist: “From the viewpoint of the standards of a democratic law governed state and the European tradition, for which we are allegedly striving, it is obvious...

On February 2, power unit No. 5 (VVER-1000, a variety of the pressurized water reactor) of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was disconnected from the mains for steam generator repairs....