First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Holubchenko yesterday expressed full satisfaction with the agreement he has just concluded in Moscow with Gazprom. Ukraine will repay through... MORE

On October 29 the IMF approved disbursement of the US$78 million second tranche of the US$2.2 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) loan to Ukraine. This... MORE

Amid mounting accusations of corruption while in office, the former Ukrainian premier and current leader of the Hromada faction in parliament, Pavlo Lazarenko, has fired... MORE

On October 15 Ukraine's Higher Court of Arbitration confirmed the Dnipropetrovsk tax administration's decision to fine the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) 1.443 million... MORE

President Leonid Kuchma headed his country's delegation to the second European Union-Ukraine summit, held on October 16 in Vienna. Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima, whose country... MORE

The leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Party (UDP) Volodymyr Yavorivsky has warned that if the national-democratic forces fail to unite, the left wing "will have... MORE

Interviewed in yesterday's issue of the Moscow daily Nezavisimaya gazeta, Zbigniew Brzezinski pointed out that Ukrainian independence is a precondition to Russia's "painless transformation from... MORE

After a rift in the Left-of-Center faction in parliament (see the Monitor, October 2), another significant left-of-center force, the Social Democratic Party (United), has split... MORE