Iryna Chemerys

Last Friday Mykhailo Potebenko, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, announced that 10 million Swiss francs acknowledged by a Swiss court as laundered by former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko would be returned to Ukraine. This amount may as well be reduced by 100,000-200,000 Swiss francs which...

The Constitutional Court ruled on July 4 to terminate proceedings in the case presented by 57 and 69 People’s Deputies claiming the unconstitutionality of resolutions passed by the members convened at Ukraine House on January 21 and February 1. The judges resolved that the case must be closed due...

Members of parliament will have to do laborious work with two weeks to go before the recess. In addition to considering the Land Code, opposed in principle by the Left opposition, they are to discuss in the first reading the draft Tax Code. Making a decision on the latter may slow down in direct...

Last Thursday the Constitutional Court (CC) made public its conclusion to what extent the presidential draft law on changes to the Constitution resulting from the referendum comply with Articles 157 and 158 of the Constitution of Ukraine. It will be recalled that the Constitutional Court is...

Premier Viktor Yushchenko, addressing the MP group Working Ukraine (Trudova Ukraina), said one of the reasons for higher bread prices was an extra profit made by grain traders using state budget GDP compensations. Customs statistics show that over three million tons of hard wheat were exported from...

As it has already been reported, World Bank director for Ukraine and Belarus, Luca Barbone, has arrived in Ukraine to discuss the further pattern of cooperation between this country and the World Bank. The World Bank is expected to continue drawing up an aid strategy for Ukraine until the...

In any country the capital city is the center of gravity for monetary currents, topnotch specialists, and the latest political trends. The capital on one hand, is a catalyst, and on the other, a mirror of the whole country. The capital models future changes and reflects all problems and...

The parliamentary elections are approaching slowly but surely. Some domestic political analysts believe early elections to Verkhovna Rada will remain a real alternative for the next several months. Hence, party conventions of late have been assessed primarily in the parties’ preparedness for...

The referendum gave a fresh impetus to debate on the second House in Parliament which, according to the “people’s” initiative, will represent regional interests. Now what is a region in Ukraine? The existing oblasts (set up artificially in the 1920s and thirties — Ed.) or some other territorial...

The following article will hopefully give the reader some idea how the referendum results have been evolving into a political football. (—Ed.) Leonid Kuchma has addressed letters to Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ivan Pliushch and Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko about the implementation of...