№6, (2005)

On February 14 Ukraine’s State Property Fund chairman Mykhailo Chechetov admitted that there were “procedural violations in restricting the competition during the privatization of Kryvorizhstal.” Now...

The lives of classical music performers are not as well known to the general public as variety performers. The former often shy away from the media hype, correctly assuming that true art doesn’t need...

A tent camp has been set up on Dnipropetrovsk’s central square, where “Orange” protesters have been demanding the dismissal of Governor Serhiy Kasyanov for several days. The camp’s superintendent...

Deputy Premier for Humanitarian Affairs Mykola Tomenko paid a working visit to various Shevchenko sites in Ukraine: the villages of Moryntsi, Shevchenkove, and Budyshche, located in Cherkasy oblast....

Early last week saw the presentation of the book The European Human Rights Convention: Fundamental Principles, Practice of Application, and the Ukrainian Context, compiled by the Union of Ukrainian...

Every issue must be treated with an eye to its background, legal framework, and expert estimates — three components of Mr. Marchuk’s inherently professional attitude as a politician with a keen...

One of the most long-suffering international agreements, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, became international law on February 16, 2005. Eight years after its ratification, it has become the...

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko is off on his second European trip after inauguration, this time visiting Brussels and Strasbourg. He is taking part in a Ukraine-NATO Commission summit...

Today it is an undisputed fact that the 1654 Ukrainian-Muscovite treaty, generally known as the Treaty of Pereyaslav, had a considerable impact on the military and political situation in...

Ukraine’s Security Service, known as the SBU, has launched criminal proceedings in connection with the illegal taping of phone calls of former opposition leaders, in particular Viktor Yushchenko and...

International Boxing heavyweight champion Chris Byrd said in an interview at http://www.boxingtalk.net that Volodymyr Klychko [in the West, the Ukrainian boxing brothers are known as Wladimir and...

Next week, Presidents Putin and Bush will meet in Slovakia. Mounting authoritarianism in Russia and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution seem to have ended the honeymoon the two men had enjoyed. Sergei...

Most small and medium businesses (57.4%) expect conditions for doing business in Ukraine to improve in the near future. According to 45.7% of managers, current conditions are unfavorable, and only 22...

Back in 1969, Volodymyr Kushpet, Heorhy Hrabar, Kost Novytsky, and Oleksandr Zuyev, then Kyiv Conservatory students, put together a folk rock group that was destined to become one of the most...

During the formal part of his visit President Yushchenko was supposed to deliver a ten-minute speech, but instead talked with representatives of the Lviv community for nearly two hours. “I am proud...