UKRAINE FOLLOWS RUSSIA’S LEAD, RAISES INTEREST RATES.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on November 15 followed the lead of the Russian Central Bank (RCB) and raised its annual refinancing interest rate... MORE
UKRAINE LEARNS TO PLAY THE WASHINGTON "FREE TRADE" GAME.
Harsh anti-dumping duties levied by the Department of Commerce, which had threatened to choke off Ukrainian steel exports to the U.S., were finally terminated in... MORE
HAS ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN UKRAINE BEGUN — WITHOUT IMF ASSISTANCE?
Recent official data suggest that Ukraine's long economic decline may finally be ending. Although Ukraine is out of compliance with its IMF memorandum of understanding,... MORE
UKRAINE AND GEORGIA CLOSE RANKS.
At a two-day meeting in Tbilisi, Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia, together with their respective defense ministers, agreed on measures... MORE
UKRAINE CONVERTING MILITARY PLANES FOR CIVILIAN USE.
Ukraine's cabinet of ministers has approved the creation of the Ukrainian Air Transport Company, a civilian cargo carrier that will use 140 planes and 35... MORE
UKRAINE FOR UNRESTRICTED TRADE IN CIS AND WITH RUSSIA.
President Leonid Kuchma told the press yesterday that CIS countries do not need a "common market" as Russia urged at last week's CIS summit, but... MORE
KUCHMA, MARCHUK TO RUN FOR UKRAINE’S PRESIDENCY.
Interviewed on the Sunday television program Pislyamova, President Leonid Kuchma told the country for the first time that he is going to run for reelection.... MORE
ZHIRINOVSKY PROPOSES RUSSIAN-ROMANIAN MOVE AGAINST UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA.
Interviewed in the mass-circulation Bucharest daily Evenimentul Zilei, Russian ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky called for partitioning the Republic of Moldova between Russia, which would receive... MORE
UKRAINE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST.
While the summit of the CIS heads of state currently meeting in Chisinau may have attracted the big headlines, an IMF mission now in Kyiv... MORE