Politics

The Minsk format of negotiations has been radically reset. At first, Russia replaced its representative in the Trilateral Donbas Peace Settlement Group – instead of Mikhail Zurabov, the Russian...

Small opposition parties are in for hard times today. They will be unable to go through to parliament on their own, and participation in the Committee to Resist Dictatorship (CRD) cannot secure a...

According to the National Export Development Strategy, worked out by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the country’s key exporting sectors are steel, agriculture, machine-building, and chemistry....

At the peak of the first Russian Revolution, the tsar made concessions. His Manifesto proclaimed civil rights and liberties, the freedom of assembly and political parties. The liberal public was...

The Black Sea Economic Forum, dedicated to the analysis of investment potentialities of the Black Sea region, has come to an end in Yalta. For two days almost 250 participants from Azerbaijan,...

The ex-minister of internal affairs, ex-companion of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, and “field commander” of the Maidan Yurii Lutsenko recently made an unexpected statement. As...

The election campaign is in the homestretch now, with less than one week left until voting day. This is the first time in recent history that local elections have been held separately from the...

“This is a cry from our hearts! Listen to us at last!” Such were the appeals of small- and medium- business owners to the government during the All-Ukrainian Congress of Business people (Open Market...

It has grown into a tradition with Ukraine, to fling mud on your political opponents as soon as an election campaign starts. On the eve of the last election, we were treated to the so-called...

The question of the activity of democratic institutions in Ukraine was discussed during the most recent session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. As a result, a...

Dnipropetrovsk – President Viktor Yanukovych is going to visit the space-rocket enterprise Pivdenmash. The visit of the head of the state to Dnipropetrovsk is scheduled for October 12. The enterprise...

Another anniversary of the Russo-Georgian conflict induced certain Russian experts, in particular, the director of the Moscow Carnegie Center Dmitri Trenin, to voice suggestions on ensuring peace...

The United States is locked in debate over immigration. The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for...

Lebanon collects donations for army suppliesLebanon’s Defense Minister Elias Murr says the government has opened a special bank account to receive donations to buy weapons for its poorly-equipped...

Stanislav SHEVCHUK, director, European and Comparative Law Center: “The most effective legislation exists in the post-Soviet states that neighbor the European countries, the three Baltic states...