№41, (2005)

The election campaign has kicked off. Communist Party candidates have been registered, and the Party of Regions has already submitted its election roster. But it is still quiet in the CEC corridors....

Continued from the previous issue Kotsiubynsky’s imagination carried him to his home in Chernihiv, sharing from afar domestic joys and troubles, both great and small. He advised his “baby,” who...

The gas problem has become a key factor of pre-election politics in the past few days. We would even welcome it if this were the last year of our life in this country. On Dec. 16 Prime Minister Yuriy...

More than 50,000 chickens and geese have been seized and destroyed in the quarantine zone during the two weeks of combating bird flu in the Crimea. According to the Public Relations Center of the...

“We’re ready to withstand this cold, so we can live better later.” We remember these words from last year’s Maidan. Their topicality is emphasized by the intensity of the gas crisis in the relations...

Time is running out: the schedule of the 2006 parliamentary elections states that nominations of candidates must be submitted by Dec. 25. More than 50 party and inter-party forums have been held in...

December 20 1616 . The first date book was published in the Kyiv Pechersk printing shop. 1906. Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar was first published in Russian. December 21 1944. The Council to Assist the...

On Dec. 13 the Ukrainian parliament questioned government ministers about problems connected to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down exactly five years ago. Unlike the plant itself...

There is supreme justice after all. You must agree that it would not be dignified for a country with three soccer players who have won the Golden Ball, the Oscar of soccer, if there were one, to...

Our traditional Friday column “Author’s Page” offers not only an individual viewpoint but also a non-traditional style that does not always fit a normal newspaper format. The column features a kind...

On Dec. 15, fresh from his two trips to Moscow and Ashgabat, Ukraine’s Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov tried to calm the nerves of Ukrainian citizens, who are cringing ahead of time in their...

Gerhard Schroeder, who less than a month ago was Germany’s Chancellor, has agreed to become chairman of the company that is building a gas pipeline from Russia, across the Baltic Sea to Germany,...

The European Parliament has approved a decision to investigate information about secret CIA prisons on European territory, in which terror suspects are allegedly being held. The leaders of the...

The Poles have been forced to admit that Ukrainian-Polish economic relations have entered a winter period in both the literal and figurative meanings. Compared to the past two years of a burgeoning...

“I would not describe the current state of relations with Russia as tension. I have a lot of experience in developing relations with Moscow. Believe me, this is not tension,” Ukraine’s Foreign...