UKRAINE STONEWALLS GAZPROM.
Russia's Gazprom chairman Rem Vyakhirev headed a delegation to Kyiv on March 9-10 to renegotiate prices for Russian gas and the mechanism of Ukraine's debt... MORE
POLISH CONNECTION INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO UKRAINE.
On February 24-25 in Kyiv, President Leonid Kuchma and Prime Minister Valery Pustovoytenko discussed with Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek a set of ambitious plans... MORE
UKRAINE ADDING TRANSIT CAPACITY FOR RUSSIAN GAS.
Ukraine's Oil and Gas State Committee and its Romanian counterpart have signed an agreement to lay a connecting pipeline from Khust in Ukraine's Carpathians to... MORE
RUSSIA’S FEDERATION COUNCIL CONDITIONALLY RATIFIES TREATY WITH UKRAINE.
By a margin of 106 to 25, Russia's Federation Council voted yesterday to ratify the interstate treaty with Ukraine. The chamber added, however, a condition... MORE
UKRAINE MINING UNREST WIDENING.
The gradually increasing mining unrest in Ukraine is threatening to seriously affect the October presidential elections. Yesterday, over 130 Ukrainian mines--including those in the Donetsk,... MORE
UKRAINE TO EXPAND DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH NATO AND POLAND.
A delegation from NATO's Political Committee and another from Poland's Defense Ministry--a new member country of the alliance--paid parallel visits to Ukraine on February 10-12.... MORE
TWO CENTRIST PARTIES JOIN FORCES IN UKRAINE.
On February 9 the leaders of Ukraine's People's Democratic Party (NDP) and Liberal Party (LPU), Anatoly Matvienko and Volodymyr Shcherban, announced that they had formed... MORE
UKRAINE UNCERTAIN ABOUT IMF LOANS.
Ukraine's chief banker, Viktor Yushchenko, was visibly disappointed on his return from the almost week-long negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World... MORE
WILL UKRAINE LAY A NEW TRANSIT PIPELINE FOR GAZPROM?
Ukraine--in arrears by US$1.1 billion to Russia's Gazprom, and accused repeatedly of pilfering Russian gas bound for third countries--plans to lay a transit pipeline as... MORE