№6, (2001)

The discussion in this issue by officially renowned economists should be closely read by those in the West who want to understand why this country simply does not work. The wisest words are those by...

Interfax Ukraine quotes London’s Independent to the effect that Ukrainian physician Valery Ivasiuk, who took part in examining the Tarashcha body, has sought political asylum in Great Britain. Dr....

The current globalization has given rise to the necessity of commercializing the space industry and making it just another sector of the economy, Director General of the National Space Agency of...

The premier does not trust Serhiy Yermilov’s bar charts (in photo). Personnel replacements in the fuel and energy complex, President Leonid Kuchma said last Friday, will be made with due account of...

A column of Serbs guarded by Ukrainian peacemakers of the international peacemaking contingent suffered an armed attack in Kosovo. While repelling the attack none of the peacemakers sustained...

Speaking at a February 13 press conference Deputy Prosecutor General Mykola Obikhod declared that due to “new circumstances” which had come to light in the Yuliya Tymoshenko’s case, the former vice...

Russia did eventually change its mind and will now pay its debts to its Paris Club creditors. After a puerile attempt to avoid payment of last month’s installment and Europe’s sharp reaction to it,...

Against the background of the typically Ukrainian internal crisis currently unfolding in this country, the news that the GUUAM summit has been postponed somehow escaped the spotlight. The GUUAM...

The World Bank mission headed by World Bank Director for Ukraine and Belarus Luca Barbone completed its work, days after the IMF team had finished its visit here. The results of the WB team visit, as...

February 20: 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decree on civil marriage and introduced forms for civil registration. 1986. The first Sevmorput...

The political masses are gradually grasping the idea of a necessary and inevitable dialogue between those in power and the opposition and are beginning to demand specific steps instead of...

Leonid Kuchma has called the meeting in Dnipropetrovsk “a tremendous step forward.” “The meeting was positive and fruitful,” echoed Vladimir Putin. “Extremely pragmatic, economic, and even...

On February 15 Minister for Fuel and Energy Serhiy Yermilov said that Ukraine and Russia would resume the parallel functioning of their energy systems if “customs gives the go-ahead.” However, it is...

Head of the Presidential Administration Volodymyr Lytvyn says the law passed on elections to Verkhovna Rada on the basis of proportional representation elections runs counter to the Constitution and...

Perhaps aware that it is difficult to force people, especially the young, to read their press, the Communists have decided to use the Internet, a capitalist invention that has conquered the world. On...