№5, (2005)

Ukraine will not implement documents on accession to the Single Economic Space if it decides that they do not mesh with its national interests. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European...

This lovers’ holiday has become traditional in Ukraine in a very special way. Other new holidays (some of which have already become days off) aren’t remotely as popular. Why? Apparently because...

It is difficult to imagine a more noble goal than the one Viktor Yushchenko and Yuliya Tymoshenko have set themselves under the influence of the Orange Revolution — to eliminate the corruption...

On February 11 a high-level delegation of US Congress members paid a one-day visit to Ukraine. Among the visitors were such key figures as Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Sen. McCain is a...

The administrative reform promised by the new government has not been long in coming. Last Saturday the Cabinet of Ministers passed a resolution to dissolve fourteen executive agencies, most of them...

February 15. 1574. In Lviv Ivan Fedorov published reputedly the first printed book in the Ukrainian land, The Apostle. 1919. The Ukrainian National Rada passed a law On Using the Ukrainian Language...

The phrase in the headline is the way Volodymyr Fesenko, president of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research, characterized the current situation in Ukrainian politics during a roundtable on...

The new Ukrainian cabinet will submit a revised draft 2005 budget bill to the Verkhovna Rada on March 15. According to President Yushchenko, the bill will envisage the implementation of his campaign...

The adoption in 1992 of a Land Code to regulate private and communal ownership, alongside state ownership of land, marked the beginning of a long transition of former state farmlands into private...

At a press conference held in Zhytomyr on February 8 President Yushchenko indicated that in the course of the administrative reform he intends to reduce the number of state committees and other...

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Oleh Rybachuk, has announced that Ukraine will cancel visas for citizens of European Union member states. He noted that Europeans who wish to...

A documentary on the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine was recently aired on one of the Ukrainian channels, or so they say. I’m telling you this because my late husband, James Mace,...

The story of the rejection last autumn of my appointment to be a member of the European Commission is notorious. Nominated to the Commission by the Italian Government, I was compelled to withdraw...

Ukraine’s president is planning to meet with the heads of the State Penitentiary Department to discuss the future of the nation’s penitentiary system. According to the presidential press service,...

Kyiv’s folk-pop group Bozhychi is a real phenomenon in the capital’s cultural life. Born slightly over five years ago, they have attracted the attention of a variety of intellectual groups of...