UKRAINE….

The eleven-party parliamentary coalition assembled by newly re-elected President Leonid Kuchma survived its first test. With the left-wing representatives boycotting the votes, the parliament ousted... MORE

NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL IN UKRAINE.

George Robertson, NATO's secretary general, conferred on January 27-28 with President Leonid Kuchma and other leaders in Kyiv on ways to expand Ukraine's cooperation with... MORE

UKRAINE….

President Leonid Kuchma signed a decree setting a constitutional referendum for April 16. The referendum will adopt or reject changes in the country's legislative structure... MORE

UKRAINE….

On December 22, with the Communists absent from the parliamentary chamber, a large but tenuous ten-party coalition approved the nomination of central banker Viktor Yushchenko... MORE

LAND REFORM LAUNCHED IN UKRAINE.

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a decree on December 3 on the acceleration of reforms in agriculture, which promises market revolution in the countryside. It... MORE

UKRAINE…

After a thoroughly dirty campaign that twisted every instrument of state power to partisan advantage, President Leonid Kuchma took 56 percent of the vote in... MORE