Ukraine's proposed new election law, which would have represented a significant move toward a proportional vote typical of most European democracies, has failed. On the... MORE

Ukraine's Education Ministry has introduced soccer, the country's most popular sport, into the national curriculum, a move more political than it might seem. Education Minister... MORE

Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Foreign Affairs Minister Louis Michel of Belgium--the country currently chairing the European Union--as well as the EU Commission's President Romano... MORE

With most of their political scandals with luck behind them, Ukraine's economic policymakers have approached negotiations with international financial institutions with renewed vigor over the... MORE

The European Union's high representative for foreign and security policy, Javier Solana, held talks on July 28-31 in Ukraine with President Leonid Kuchma and other... MORE

On July 25, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma appointed state secretaries to thirteen of Ukraine's sixteen government ministries, following up on his May 29 decree to... MORE

The case of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, whose beheaded body was found last November near Kyiv, remains unsolved, and the death toll among Ukrainian journalists... MORE

Last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld became the first top-level official of the Bush administration to hold talks with Ukraine's leaders in Kyiv. On... MORE

From June 15 to June 30, British and Ukrainian troops conducted the Cossack Express-2001 exercise at Ukraine's Yavoriv training range. A British special-force battalion and... MORE

Newly appointed Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh has admitted that Ukraine may experience serious problems meeting this year's target of 5 billion hryvnyas (US$920 million) in... MORE