Oleksandr Mikhelson

Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Director Leonid Derkach pledges to hold a press conference this week on an alleged plot by residents of Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy oblasts. Those being held are accused of forming paramilitary groups, learning the deployment of regular military units,...

Last week about 6,000 people, mostly pensioners, blocked traffic on Donetsk’s central street. The pickets’ main demands were to slash public utility rates and the price of bread, as well as to grant the Russian language official status on the oblast’s territory. This spontaneous action paralyzed...

The ideal law is justice codified, while a Constitution is the key element of the genetic code of social life. On the one hand, as in other countries with difficult heredity, in Ukraine the fundamental law has not yet become a factor governing mass behavior and lifestyle. On the other hand, little...

That Ukraine became the first country in Eastern Europe and the CIS to organize statistical research of child labor testifies not only to the desire to solve the problem but also to a very large scale of the latter. According to official data, there are nine million children between the ages of 5...

With executive branch staff still to be cut, the government has decided on second thoughts to increase the number of bureaucrats and the fleet of cars. According to a resolution of March 10, the number of the central and territorial staff in the ministries and agencies other than those of defense,...

A certain American named Rockefeller, legend has it, started his way up as a shoeshine boy. Although legends like this are not yet heard in Ukraine, this country, too, has people far and wide who are working their way up, unencumbered by any education whatsoever (we do not mean here overtly...

The reforms proclaimed by the executive will be ineffective unless we have the eternally sought middle class. Without it no one can guarantee there will be no turning back to the recent past, just as it will be impossible to build a civil society, increase domestic production, and solve the...

The area was littered with empty cans, testifying that most of the young generation chooses beer all the same. From V. Pelevin, Chapayev and Emptiness I recall how a couple of years ago, before a match between Kyiv Dynamo and British Newcastle at our Olympiysky Stadium, one of the fans,...

Ukraine’s registered unemployed will increase from 4.3% to 6.57% of the labor force late this year, says Economy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko. This means that the current 1,174,000 officially registered as jobless will grow to 1,700,000, reports Interfax Ukraine. The State Employment Center of the...

The Russian Foreign Ministry is again casting not the friendliest gaze at Ukraine. Interfax quotes the ministry as stressing in its statement that “certain forces in Ukraine seem to intend to create a phenomenon hitherto unheard-of in Europe: to make the language, native for the overwhelming...