№9, (2001)

After the March 9 events in Kyiv became top stories in the media the Communists seemed to fade into the background of the political process. No one physically assaulted them and they attacked no one...

Not so long ago Western experts declared that the Ukrainian scandals would not affect the international position of Ukraine since they belong to the sphere of its internal affairs. The situation...

The First International Children’s Contest of Ukrainian Language Experts, started by Toronto-based Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation, Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Education, and the Ukrainian...

Premier Viktor Yushchenko thinks it will be impossible to find answers to many questions in Ukraine unless the case of journalist Heorhy Gongadze is cleared up, Interfax-Ukraine reports. The premier...

There were times when a considerable number of our people believed the lies we were told about the consumer society. Now many of us have the opportunity to make a closer acquaintance with life in the...

Ukraine’s chairing the UN Security Council coincided with yet another aggravation of the Balkan conflict but this time in Macedonia, the only former Yugoslav country which had not yet had a war. The...

This memorable phrase belongs to a horse in Dovzhenko’s film as it spoke to its master Ivan taking out his aggression on the poor creature with a whip. And so this winter, too, a gloomy Ivan,...

President Leonid Kuchma in his annual address to Verkhovna Rada stated that “both the objective and subjective preconditions have formed in the country for transition to a qualitatively new stage of...

Reports to parliament of law enforcement agencies on the March 9 street brawl in Kyiv were awaited with interest and it was expected that the questioning would take a course similar to what it did...

The Kyiv Chamber Orchestra conducted by Roman Kofman gave a concert at the capital’s National Philharmonic Society on March 9 starring Ukrainian diva Viktoria Lukyanets, resident of Austria for the...

On March 16 the third Georgian-Abkhazian confidence building conference aimed at settling the conflict ended at the Yalta Intourist hotel. The meeting was held under the auspices of the UN and...

Ukraine and Russia could have switched to a parallel power grid mode as early as March 1, believes recently fired Fuel and Energy Minister Serhiy Yermilov. This would have allowed Ukraine to make up...

On Saturday Ukrayinska pravda and the “Podrobytsi” television news program reported that President Kuchma had signed an order that day dismissing Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister Yuri Kravchenko....

In the richness of their emotional coloration, Ukrainian-Russian relations are perhaps unmatched, compared to Ukraine’s contacts with the other neighboring countries. First, this is due to both sides...

United Nations experts predict the population of Ukraine could drop 40% in the next fifty years. This is the world’s highest population drop index, the BBC (www.bbc.co.ukr) reports. Such data are...