UKRAINE….

The delegates inside were more unruly than the demonstrators outside as parliament decided to delay a no-confidence vote that could turn Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko... MORE

UKRAINE….

Since a court ordered her release from detention on April 2, Yulia Tymoshenko, the former deputy prime minister for fuels and energy, has taken an... MORE

NEW REFERENDUM FOR UKRAINE?

The April 2 release of ardent oppositionist and former Deputy Premier for Fuel and Energy Yulia Tymoshenko (see the Monitor, April 3) has seemingly consolidated... MORE

UKRAINE….

Yulia Tymoshenko, former energy minister and a key leader of the opposition to President Leonid Kuchma, won her freedom when the Supreme Court overturned lower-court... MORE

UKRAINE….

Violence broke out during demonstrations against President Leonid Kuchma in Kyiv on March 9. A crowd estimated at around 8,000 used Taras Shevchenko Day, a... MORE

UKRAINE….

President Leonid Kuchma suffers from Louisism. That is Louis as in Louis XIV, as in "I am the state." Yesterday Kuchma told "every civil servant"... MORE

UKRAINE….

As Ukraine's political crisis continued to intensify, President Leonid Kuchma stuck to his basic strategy, which boils down to "when in doubt, brazen it out."... MORE

PUTIN IN UKRAINE.

On February 11-12, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk. Against the background of Ukraine's internal political crisis, Putin staged... MORE