UKRAINE TO SCRAP EX-SOVIET BOMBERS.
It looks as if Ukraine's frustrating five-year effort to reach an agreement with Russia on the repatriation of forty-four Soviet strategic bombers inherited by Ukraine... MORE
A SHIFT AT THE TOP OF UKRAINE’S SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT.
President Leonid Kuchma yesterday released General Volodymyr Radchenko from the post of chairman of Ukraine's Security Service and appointed Leonid Derkach in his place. Derkach... MORE
A “DIVISION OF LABOR” IN UKRAINE’S FOREIGN POLICY.
According to former Prime Minister and former Security Service chief Yevhen Marchuk, the appointment of Boris Tarasiuk as foreign minister of Ukraine (see Monitor, April... MORE
WESTERN-ORIENTED TARASIUK APPOINTED FOREIGN MINISTER OF UKRAINE.
President Leonid Kuchma appointed Boris Tarasiuk to the post of Foreign Minister on April 17, replacing Hennady Udovenko. Indications are that Tarasiuk's efforts to a... MORE
UKRAINE’S ARMS EXPORTS GROWING.
Ukrainian arms exports topped $600 million in 1997 and are projected to reach $1 billion in 1998, according to UkrSpetsEksport head Andriy Kukin. The Ukrainian... MORE
IMF CANCELS STANDBY CREDIT FOR UKRAINE…
Despite recording exceptionally low inflation and some indicators of accelerating economic growth, Ukraine will not receive the remainder of the $542 million stand-by IMF credit... MORE
MINING DISASTER IN UKRAINE.
At least sixty-three miners were killed and nearly fifty wounded, some of them critically, in a methane-gas explosion on April 4 at the Skochinsky coal... MORE
ELECTION DAY, UKRAINE….
Parliamentary elections in Ukraine returned a badly divided house. That result will not help a weak and frustrated government to cope with the country's mounting... MORE