UKRAINE’S LEFT: PURPORTED UNITY ON MAY DAY.
The turnout at the international day of workers' solidarity rallies across Ukraine--May 1--was rather high, at 200,000 people. Ukrainian leftists grasped this opportunity to air... MORE
UKRAINE’S “PARTY OF POWER” LEADER TO QUIT.
On April 23, the political council of Ukraine's People's Democratic Party (NDP) voted--as expected--to recommend that the party congress in May back President Leonid Kuchma... MORE
UKRAINE’S UNEASY BALANCING ACT AT NATO SUMMIT.
President Leonid Kuchma and his team--proven supporters of cooperation with NATO--attended the Washington summit despite heavy political pressure from leftist forces at home. The approaching... MORE
NEW GROUP CALLED WORKING UKRAINE LOYAL TO KUCHMA.
A new group in the Ukrainian parliament, apparently formed to promote both President Leonid Kuchma's policies and to pursue the business interests of its founders,... MORE
UKRAINE: BACK FROM THE DEAD…
Genocidal attacks in the war years failed--not by much--to exterminate Ukraine's Jew and Tatars. The United Jewish Community of Ukraine held an inaugural congress in... MORE
JEWISH COALITION FOUNDED IN UKRAINE.
Nearly 1,500 delegates, representing Jewish groups throughout Ukraine with a total reported membership of 240,000, held the inaugural congress of the United Jewish Community of... MORE
UKRAINE’S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SHOW THEIR CARDS.
With presidential elections coming up in October, Ukraine's tiny center-left parties are clearly demonstrating that differences between them are about personalities and personal interests rather... MORE