Dissident Oligarchs Under Attack In U.s. And Ukraine
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was charged with laundering US$114 million on June 4, after a five-year investigation. Lazarenko was only the second foreign... MORE
Poland Lobbies Eu Membership For Ukraine
On June 13, Poland, like the other seven post-Communist states who joined the European Union (EU) in May, will participate for the first time in... MORE
New Accusations Of Proliferation Against Ukraine
The Washington Times (May 25) published a sensational news item entitled “Dirty Bomb Easy to Buy in Ukraine”. The report was itself based on a... MORE
Ngos And Civil Society Under Attack In Ukraine
Valeriy Mishura, Communist parliamentary deputy and head of the Temporary Investigative Parliamentary Commission, has issued his first report to Parliament on the implications of foreign... MORE
Former U.S. President Bush Visits Ukraine
Former U.S. President George Bush was the latest in a long line of senior U.S. policy-makers to visit Ukraine on May 20-21. The visit should... MORE
Ukraine Faces Setback In Transit Of Kazakh Oil
On May 19, Oleksandr Todiychuk resigned as president of Ukraine's national oil transit company UkrTransNafta. Todiychuk's resignation follows a decision by President Leonid Kuchma to... MORE
Ukraine’s Euro-atlantic Integration At Dead End
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Oleksandr Chalyj, Ukraine's last remaining government lobbyist for Euro-Atlantic integration, resigned on May 15 (Ukrayinska Pravda, May 15). This... MORE
U.S. Congress Expresses Strong Support For Free Elections In Ukraine
On May 12 the U.S. Congress held a hearing entitled "The Future of Ukraine and the Interests of the United States" dealing with Ukraine's upcoming... MORE
Media Freedoms In Ukraine And The Cis: A Gloomy Picture
In the first week of May two human rights organizations, the Paris-based Reporters Without Frontiers and the Kyiv-based Institute of Mass Information, released reports on... MORE
Washington Turning Screws On Ukraine Ahead Of Election
In mid May, former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is scheduled to visit Kyiv along with Deputy Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky. Former U.S.... MORE