№9, (2002)

One of Ukraine’s nascent political parties was out on March 12 to score some campaign points picketing the government building, claiming “worsening economic situation in the country and a threat of...

Over the past several months, the Prosecutor General’s Office has returned about UAH 27 million [$5 million], Prosecutor General Mykhailo Potebenko stated at a March 12 news conference in Kyiv....

Russian Federation Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor CHERNOMYRDIN maintains that claims of possible falsification of Ukraine’s upcoming elections might have a made to order character. He made a statement...

In January-February the Ukrainian government repaid UAH 774 million of its state debt and channel 455 million to service the remaining debt, while it borrowed a mere UAH 79.3 million during the same...

Premier Anatoly Kinakh now champions the soonest possible rehabilitation of combatants of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). “I wholeheartedly support this rehabilitation taking effect as soon as...

“Ukraine needs political stability as never before,” President Leonid Kuchma said last Friday, addressing the workforce unit of the Novomoskovsk Pipe Rolling Mill. He also characterized the two past...

March 9, 2001 became one of the tensest days in our recent history. Let us briefly recall the course of events: the tapegate scandal was picking up momentum. In a nationwide address of February 13,...

VILLAGE DEMOCRACY Hitherto, all attempts to make the countryside politically affiliated have failed. Even under the dictatorship of the proletariat village cells of the Communist Party of Ukraine...

The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued a license to generate electricity to Skhidenerho Ltd. Founded by two natural persons, this firm acquired control over the Starobesheva...

Let’s skip Honduras; it is on the other side of the world. But as for Switzerland or Germany and all of Europe in general, they seem not to need to do what we do at every step, in every word we say...

My native street in one of Volyn oblast’s largest villages, Lavriv (a score of kilometers from Lutsk), numbers fifteen houses on both of its sides. It is the central street of the village and its...

The weekend before last, the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) Sports Complex hosted the third President of Ukraine Cup Mini-Soccer Student Tournament finals. While the qualifying round saw more than...

The Academy is presided over by Prince Dunduk. How come Dunduk won this honor? Why does he preside? Because... he has a rump to sit on! Aleksandr Pushkin Learning and erudition have been...

The father of history Herodotus wrote that the Sauromatians were a people living to the east of the Siversky Donets River. They would later extend their influence to the North Caucasus and the entire...

Should a history of Kyiv’s prisons be ever written, it will undoubtedly include several pages dealing with such a renowned inmate as Volodymyr Vynnychenko. In February 1902, arrested for the first...