UKRAINE: “PRESIDENTIAL PARTY” NOT UNANIMOUS ON ELECTORAL STRATEGY.
The People's Democratic Party (NDP) should unite Ukrainian centrist forces into a new party with a new leader--Premier Valery Pustovoytenko--to support the incumbent President Leonid... MORE
COMMUNIST PARTY AIMS FOR UKRAINE’S PRESIDENCY.
Ukrainian Communist Party First Secretary Petro Symonenko yesterday called on President Leonid Kuchma to resign and "make room for those capable of pulling the country... MORE
UKRAINE SEEKS OIL DEAL WITH KAZAKHSTAN TO BYPASS RUSSIA.
Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Holubchenko complained yesterday that "Russia's very severe limitations on the transit of Kazakh oil through its territory" are thwarting... MORE
UKRAINE-NATO COOPERATION PROGRAM APPROVED.
President Leonid Kuchma yesterday issued a decree approving Ukraine's state program of cooperation with NATO for the period 1999-2001. Drafted by an interagency committee, the... MORE
NOVEMBER 7 IN UKRAINE: LEFT, RIGHT RALLY WITH EYE TO ELECTIONS.
Numerically, this year's rallies marking the anniversary of the October revolution of 1917 did not differ much from those of a year ago. According to... MORE
UKRAINE RELIEVED BY AGREEMENT WITH GAZPROM.
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
UKRAINE GETS ANOTHER TRANCHE FROM CAUTIOUS IMF.
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
UKRAINE: FORMER PREMIER COUNTERATTACKS.
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