Varvara Zhluktenko

In his message to parliament President Yushchenko set an ambitious objective: to create a free trade area with the EU in 2007, obtain associate membership in 2008, and then advance confidently toward full membership in the European Union. A team of experts, created by the nongovernmental...

Recently, Kyiv was once again reminded of the famous “American felt boots.” This time, however, it was no joke, as the issue is the bird flu and the felt boots are actually sanitary boots. They are made in Ukraine, not in the United States, and were purchased by USAID for affected territories in...

On Jan. 1 the rotating presidency of the European Union passes from Great Britain to Austria. Vienna headed the EU only once, in 1998, three years after joining the union. This time around its agenda will be much broader than in 1998. Austria assumes the presidency in a complex situation. In the...

When the Ukraine-European Union talks on relaxing visa requirements are completed, some categories of Ukrainian citizens will be eligible to receive free or long-term visas, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany, Dietmar Stuedemann, told journalists. “In any case, a student...

With the approaching Christmas holidays many cities all over the world are plunging into the hustle and bustle of pre-Christmas sales. At the same time smaller and less conspicuous but important charitable projects are taking place. In the life of the Ukrainian capital both aspects of the pre-...

On Dec. 9 work began on the construction of an ambitious project, the so-called “bypass gas pipeline,” linking Russia and Western Europe via the Baltic Sea. This symbolic event occurred against the background of the current tensions in Ukraine-Russia relations. Gas has again become an instrument of...

The constituent forum of the Democratic Choice Community ended last Friday. The initiative to create this group came from the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia during the Borzhomi summit last August. The high-level Kyiv conference was attended by the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,...

The change of power in Ukraine and subsequent events that occurred in the post-Soviet space has presented many challenges to Russia’s foreign policy. In an interview with The Day , Boris KUZNETSOV, director of the St. Petersburg-based Center for Integration Studies, focuses on the notorious “...

In an attempt to apply not only a “tough” but “soft” stance in relations with its neighbors, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has backed a new project in the sphere of cultural diplomacy project: a book of geographical and topographical maps of Ukraine drawn by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan...

Many hopes, including European integration, were placed in the Orange Revolution, the first anniversary of which was marked last week. In his inaugural address President Viktor Yushchenko repeatedly stressed his intention to achieve EU membership. The integration path, however, has turned out...