Volodymyr Pankeyev

Nobody likes the tax collector, but taxes are, after all, the price we have to pay in order to live in a civilized state and society. Here the thankless job of heading the State Tax Administration has for some years been headed by Mykola AZAROV, whose interview below shows that he recognizes the...

The Security Service of Ukraine will monitor information carried by various telecommunication systems, doing so in strict accordance with the law, the SBU site read (www.sbu.gov.ua) on St. Valentine Day. The message further reads that “the globalization of information systems, including the...

The scandal that erupted last Sunday over a Ukrainian citizen killed by a Polish policeman promises to be anything but a tempest in a teapot. On January 30 Ukraine officially expressed doubt about the preliminary information that a Ukrainian citizen was shot dead on January 28 near the Polish town...

The Ambassador of Slovakia to Ukraine, Vasil Grivna, does not think that the new gas pipeline to be laid across Poland and Slovakia following the agreement between Russia and the West should compensate for the gas being supplied to the West across Ukraine, although Slovakia does not oppose the...

“True, they made us play outside the law,” Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund Chechetov had to admit, commenting on the outcome of the tender selling 68.1% stock of the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Combine (Ukr. abbreviation ZALK) state company. According to Part.Org (www.part.org.ua), Mr....

Ukraine has never opposed the construction of an additional gas pipeline bypassing its territory, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said during his visit to Turkey. He also reiterated that “Ukraine has concluded with the president of Russia a clear agreement with European Union approval that the...

Warsaw. Ukraine is looking into the possibility of allowing Russia’s Gazprom and Western gas importers to have an interest in managing the transit pipeline, Premier Viktor Yushchenko told The Financial Times, adding that his country is prepared to privatize the transit system and is working on a...

The national team of Portugal left Kyiv, as it did ten years ago, with only one victory and, to our great pleasure, four defeats. What is more, our tennis players in fact "reserved" a victory for themselves as soon as after the first day of competition. After the victories of two Andriys, young...

“If you want to play billiards really well, you must drop your family and work,” renowned American pool player Robert Birn once said. From this angle, the participants in the billiard tournament among media representatives held the Friday before last at the Green Glade Club could have hardly shown...

Eight years ago the students on October Revolution Square (now Independence Square) were able to do what three Verkhovna Rada factions failed to do three weeks ago: bring down the government. Eight years ago the students demanded changes: this October dozens of young people demanded stability...