Mykhailo Bidenko

At a conference of the Philip Morris corporate leadership in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Kharkiv Tobacco Factory was named the best of its European subsidiaries in terms of job safety and labor protection. US interest in the statutory fund of the Kharkiv Tobacco Factory is over 99.5%. Is this...

Three months ago, the State Employment Service launched an experiment in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv oblasts to improve its mechanism of cooperation with employers. The very first results showed that the experts were on the right track. It is now time to share their achievements. Representatives of...

The unveiling ceremony of a monument to Henrikh Semyradsky took place in his native village of Pechenihy in Kharkiv oblast. It was erected in the yard of the Pechenihy Secondary School. Its authors are Kharkiv-based sculptor Seyfadin Hurbanov and architect Yury Shkodovsky. Semyradsky’s...

Velyky Burluk, a township in Kharkiv oblast, marked its 330th anniversary late last summer. It is the center of a remote administrative district with a friendly and hardworking populace characteristic of the whole Kharkiv oblast. What makes it different from the other places in the district is its...

The much-vaunted Kharkiv Initiative campaign, which the US government viewed as capable of not only compensating Ukraine for canceling the gas turbine contract for the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran but also producing significant economic results, has fizzled. Over the years of the initiative...

A two day session of the Ukrainian-Russian Cooperation Commission held in Kharkiv on June 20-21 under the chairmanship of the premiers resulted mainly in an agreement that Russia would grant Ukraine a six-year special purpose loan of $44 million to finish the construction of units No. 2 and No. 4...

A monument to all lovers will be erected in Kharkiv. It will represent a young man and a girl flying and uniting in a kiss. Statues of angels and cherubs will surround them. There are plenty of ideas in this project, like an unseen dripping fountain to keep the space under the airborne paramours...

Whatever one’s attitude toward the idea of economic freedom, it is an undeniable fact that there already are areas where this freedom exists to a certain extent. Today, this country has eleven special (free) economic zones (FEZs), nine priority development areas (PDAs) with special investment...

Organized crime poses a major threat to national and international security. NSDC Secretary Yevhen Marchuk and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Rushailo, State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Gennady Neviglas, and Marek Siewec, State Secretary and Chief of the Polish National Security...

President Leonid Kuchma told a meeting of regional officials and business people in Kharkiv oblast that fresh blood had to be injected, introducing the new head of the oblast state administration, 42-year- old Yevhen Kushnariov. The former governor, Oleh Diomin, also of the People’s Democratic...