Olena Kondratiuk

The 16th annual Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was called to order in Kyiv on July 5. This forum, a first-time event in Ukraine’s capital, lasted until July 9 and was attended by MPs from 56 OSCE member countries. The participation of the Russian...

Postponed, Europe Day was finally celebrated in Kyiv. The organizers managed to stage the festivities the following day after the political crisis seemed to have been finally settled in Ukraine. Previously, the Verkhovna Rada passed a number of bills opening the way for early parliamentary...

Turkmenistan’s President Saparmurat Niazov, considered the living symbol of this Central Asian republic, died on Dec. 21. The 66-year-old president’s sudden death was caused by cardiac arrest. Niazov’s death marks the end of the 20-year-long era of the Turkmen president, who came to power in 1985...

Flowers trampled underfoot, blood on the asphalt, beatings and arrests of dozens of peaceful people. This was the upshot of the first stage of the Ukrainian revolution known as “Ukraine without Kuchma,” which took place on March 9, 2001. The revolution began six years ago, on Dec. 15, 2000. The...

Ukraine ranks second after Poland in the number of citizens that visit Germany. Every year about 130,000 people apply to the German Embassy for a Schengen visa, but this year there have been 350,000 applications in Kyiv alone. Although memories are still fresh of the recent visa scandals at the...

Signing a new road map of Ukrainian-French relations for 2007-2008 will be the main topic of France’s President Jacques Chirac’s visit to Ukraine in January or February 2007, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasiuk announced at a meeting with his French counterpart Philippe Douste-...