POPE JOHN PAUL VISITS UKRAINE.
The June 23-27 visit of Pope John Paul II to predominantly Orthodox Christian Ukraine was marred by controversy. On the one hand, there were no... MORE
NEW ELECTION LAW IN UKRAINE.
On June 7, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada passed a new election law in a vote of 289-14 with 1 abstention. Seventy-nine more deputies, present in the... MORE
UKRAINE SETTLES ON A NEW GOVERNMENT.
A month after the ouster of Ukraine's liberal Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko from power, the country now has a replacement. Anatoly Kinakh, 46, chairman of... MORE
DESPITE POLITICAL INSTABILITY, UKRAINE’S ECONOMIC GROWTH ACCELERATES…
Ukrainian politics, which have been consumed by the sensational "Kuchmagate" scandal and the dismissal of the Yushchenko government, have overshadowed the good news about Ukraine's... MORE
UKRAINE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: THE RESIGNATION OF YUSHCHENKO AND THE CRISIS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY
By Volodymyr Zviglianich Ukraine has once again caught the world by surprise. She first made the headlines when the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear... MORE
UKRAINE, TURKMENISTAN SIGN LANDMARK AGREEMENT ON GAS SUPPLIES.
On May 14 in Kyiv, Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Saparmurat Niazov signed an agreement on the supply of Turkmen natural gas, which could end Ukraine's... MORE
NATO-UKRAINE RELATIONS: AN INTERIM BALANCE SHEET.
Interviewed during his recent visit to the NATO candidate country Lithuania, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine reviewed the development of his country's special relationship with... MORE
UKRAINE CHUCKS ITS GOVERNMENT….
Communists in parliament teamed up with representatives of the oligarchs who control the country's energy industry to vote Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko out of office.... MORE