Oleksandra Lavrynenko

She is one of those who believe in Ukraine and acts accordingly. In 1996, she left Paris to settle in Ukraine and has been here ever since. She comes from an emigre family and is now the proprietor and chief editor of the French-Ukrainian Le Kaleidoscope Ukrainien [The Ukrainian Kaleidoscope]. Her...

On September 5 a press conference was held in Slovyansk on the journalist Ihor Oleksandrov affair. Addressing the audience, Deputy Prosecutor General Serhiy Vynokurov confirmed that the murder of the local TOR Television Company head had been solved, the murderer found, but the investigation was...

Ukrainian literati, German businessmen, and diplomats gathered at the Goethe Institute’s library recently to sum up the contest called Germany-Ukraine: What Happened in the Past? What Is Happening Now? What Will Happen? The competition had been announced eight months ago, and a previous jury had...

The person suspected of murdering TOR T elevision C ompany director Ihor Aleksandrov (See The Day, No. 20 for July 10, 2001 and No. 21 of July 17, 2001) has been arrested and is being questioned, Ukraine’s Deputy Prosecutor General Serhiy Vynokurov told journalists in Slovyansk, Valery Prudskoi,...

On August 23 Kyiv Pechersk local court judge Y. H. Ivanenko adjured the weekly 2000 to refrain from further publication of an article about Damian Bank managers whom a Swiss court found guilty 13 months ago of financial machinations, as well as other publications relating to Yury Sydorenko, another...

Broadcast journalist Ihor Aleksandrov was buried in the Southern Cemetery in Slovyansk on July 9. Eyewitnesses state that over 5,000 attending the funeral, among them residents, local officials, representatives of volunteer organizations, and the victim’s colleagues. Old-timers cannot think of...

The statements made by Yuri Smyrnov, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Mykhailo Potebenko, Prosecutor General, in Verkhovna Rada last Friday added new touches to the Gongadze case. First, inside the car of the likely murderers there was some soil chemically identical with the soil at the place...

The situation with licensing the Television and Radio Company by the National Television and Radio Council heated up again recently. It all started with the latest round of steps taken to “clarify matters” [read: get even with] between the National Council and Vinnytsia’s Ishtar Television Company...

Last Wednesday the Verkhovna Rada ad hoc commission investigating the disappearance of journalist Heorhy Gongadze decided to transfer to the Prosecutor General’s Office one disc of Major Melnychenko’s recordings the commission had received in early February. The disc along with a transcript of the...

These days Ukraine has again received Hanne Severinsen, well known for critically reproaching Ukraine’s top authorities, especially during the last year’s referendum. In the course of a three-day visit to Kyiv, Ms. Severinsen gathered information on the situation in Ukraine to prepare a report to a...