Vyacheslav Darpiniants

There has been a 117,800 increase in the number of employed females in Ukraine, and now it is around ten million persons. The number of unemployed fell by 12.4% within the period from March 2002 to March 2003, and in numbers comes to a little over a million. The unemployment rate for the members of...

The Accounting Chamber of Ukraine made public some curious information recently. Audits showed that if young specialists were to be viewed as a commodity, not a production factor, this would indicate a deep crisis on the nation’s employment market. It turned out the state does not analyze...

During the May 22-23 summit of the heads of seventeen Central European states it turned out that Ukraine and Moldova have much in common. After independence, the two former Soviet republics made their political choice, that is, a strategic course toward integration with the EU. Neither country...

Functions of this kind can hardly be called fateful. Nevertheless, the tenth Central European summit, concluded in the Austrian city of Salzburg on May 23, is certain to be recorded in the annals of history, if only because next year Federal President Thomas Klestil of Austria will see the end of...

Before everything else, the NBU sees no other option than to put on the auction block the Ukrayina banking complex. Tihipko claims that further lease of the bank property is forbidden by law. But from the practical standpoint extending the lease makes a certain amount of sense. Note that, to date,...

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kyiv recently hosted public hearings on Ukraine’s WTO membership. The cabinet wants it accomplished by 2005 and is likely to manage it, all things considered. Thirteen bilateral protocols have been signed with Mexico, Uruguay, New Zealand, Canada, South Korea...

It is always interesting to hear a professional financier’s views on political and economic life, especially if this financier used to be President of the First Ukrainian International Investment Bank, Deputy Chairman of the Finance and Banking Committee, authorized representative of the Regions of...

Although our compatriots know almost nothing about the process of Ukraine’s integration into Europe, they favor integration into the European Union. This paradoxical information was made public April 16 at the Ministry for Economy by experts of the International Center for Public Policy Research....

While anti-Iraq coalition troops exult over the seizure of Baghdad, the personnel of the 19th Detached CBR Warfare Battalion of Ukraine’s Western Operational Command, now stationed at Camp Arifjan, 125 kilometers away from the nearest Iraqi-Kuwaiti border, are still on standby alert. Under what...

At last Wednesday’s Kyiv briefing, Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksandr Atamaniuk, within the limits of his authority, informed those present on the state of investigation on the most publicized criminal cases. Most attention was paid to the Leninska Kuznia [Lenin’s Smithy] case, the proceedings on...