Natalia Trofimova

It looks as though the protracted coalition endgame needs one last move. Nearly all the members of the Party of Regions faction backed Roman Zvarych’s proposal to adjourn the Verkhovna Rada again until June 20 for “consultations.” Among those who voted for this proposal were 252 MPs from the new-...

BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko has once again declared that she is ready to shed presidential ambitions during the 2009 elections for the sake of bringing the Orange team back together. Interfax Ukraine quotes her as saying this the day before yesterday, during a meeting with representative of the US...

The BYuT, Our Ukraine (NSNU), and the SPU are set to begin forming a democratic coalition. Last Thursday evening their leaders signed the first document on their future cooperation in parliament and triumphantly showed the protocols (on photo). Meanwhile, other representatives of these political...

Last Friday the sociologists who conducted exit polls on March 26 summed up their survey. In fact, the only pleasant outcome is that they were not mistaken and no one, except for certain outspoken leaders, such as People’s Opposition’s Natalia Vitrenko, accused the pollsters of any machinations....

Strange as it may seem, Ukrainians still believe that the coming elections will change their lives for the better. Some 45 percent of surveyed Ukrainians feel optimistic about the general situation after the March elections. A large proportion — 48 percent — believes that there will be a majority...

After the parliamentary elections Ukraine will undergo a long process of electing the Verkhovna Rada’s leadership and forming a parliamentary coalition and government. As a result, the parliamentary speaker may be elected no earlier than mid-April and the Cabinet of Ministers might be formed only...

Last Sunday some 3,000 residents of Lviv took part in the public meeting “Let’s Protect Ukraine” (read: the president and his government) organized by the Our Ukraine bloc. Before appearing in front of the masses, bloc leaders, who met with journalists, said they did not link their visit to Lviv...

The first convention of the newly established electoral bloc “Yevhen Marchuk — Yednist [Unity]” was held in keeping with all the classical rules of party meetings, against the background of a “show business-style” policy being waged by the party’s forces. The speeches by the leaders of the three...

Not so long ago, the windows of the high-rise at vul. Tymoshenka, 13a, in Kyiv’s Obolon district, opened onto the banal landscape of a bedroom community, dominated by identical human beehives. Now these windows offer a panorama of the entire city of Kyiv, from its historic center to current...

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...