№9, (2001)

I have known Canadian philanthropist Petro Jacyk for nearly twenty years and League of Philanthropists Executive Secretary Mykhailo Slaboshpytsky for nearly ten. I first met Petro as a champion donor...

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...

According to the NTB Internet magazine, Russia’s State Duma is taking an interest in religious problem, following Zhirinovsky’s presentation, particularly in the relations between the Russian...

We would like Ukrainian-Polish relations to reach further than neighborly contacts between institutions and among the political elite, and become effective ties linking our communities. This...

Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Ivan Zayets does not consider the present natural disaster the result of unreliable engineer protection of territory since, according to him, after the 1998...

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...

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....

The presidents of Poland, France, and the chancellor of Germany (countries of the so- called Weimar Triangle) have voiced support for President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine in the current domestic...

Yuliya Tymoshenko’s open letter recently published in The Financial Times bears the signature “prisoner of conscience,” a term applied to political prisoners in the former USSR. The Western public...

March 20: 1895. The Hromadsky holos [Community Voice] newspaper began publication in Lviv. 1995. The governments of Ukraine and the United Arabian Emirates signed a treaty on economic, trade, and...

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...

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 proposal of Verkhovna Rada Vice Speaker Viktor Medvedchuk for the Cabinet of Ministers and the parliamentary majority to sign a contract on cooperation and mutual responsibility has passed from...

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...

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...