Vyacheslav Darpyniants

After promising the Ukrainian public credit-free relationships with IMF recently, the cabinet continues to build these relationships on quests for credits. Another round of talks with IMF is expected in September-November. The 2003 budget bill submitted to the Verkhovna Rada makes it clear that no...

Hundreds of thousands of hryvnias parties and blocs channeled into the election campaign have been wasted. Administrative pressure exerted on voters and rivals by the most “disciplined” election campaign participants fails to reach its aim. Data of the most unbiased public opinion surveys are being...

The assassinations of NBU former Chairman Vadym Hetman and People’s Deputy Yevhen Shcherban, the Ukrainian budget looted of tens of millions of dollars by former Premier Pavlo Lazarenko, followed by millions of cubic meters of Russian natural gas, mysterious disappearance of the journalist Heorhy...

“ The problems connected with monopolies are of interest to all Ukrainians,” First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Fuel and Electricity Complex, Nuclear Policy, and Nuclear Safety Oleksiy Kucherenko declared at a September 13 press conference. According to him, the losses of...

According to information recently published by the US State Department, our country is a major supplier of human livestock to the West and Near East. First Deputy Head of the State Committee for State Border Defense Pavlo Shysholin informed The Day, “In the last ten years around 400,000 women were...

On September 4, the parliamentary ad hoc commission investigating the bankruptcy of the Ukrayina Joint Stock Commercial Bank met in regular session. Commission Deputy Chairman Viktor Suslov told The Day, “The results of the commission’s work will be submitted for Verkhovna Rada consideration next...

On September 7 First Vice Premier of Ukraine Oleh Dubyna presided over an extraordinary session of the board of the State Department for Labor Safety Supervision. The central item on the agenda was to find out what caused the latest accident at the A. F. Zasiadko Coal Mine. As is the rule at such...

On August 29 Ukraine celebrated yet another jubilee — five years since the introduction of the nation’s currency. National Bank of Ukraine Deputy Governor Yaroslav Soltys noted at the press conference, “The introduction of the hryvnia in circulation became a turning-point in the development of...

EBRD President Jean Lemiere signed a credit line agreement with the Microfinancial Bank public corporation. The latter’s president Volker Renner noted that “the credit agreement will allow Microfinancial Bank to expand its investment scope using offices recently opened in Slavutych, Kharkiv, and...