President Leonid Kuchma and Foreign Minister Hennady Udovenko appeared to regard this CIS summit as an opportunity to mend fences with Russia and nurture a... MORE

A Nigerian military spokesman yesterday said that the military junta in Sierra Leone had ordered 3 jet fighters from Ukraine. He also repeated an earlier... MORE

Ukraine will import 5 million tons of oil from Kazakhstan in 1998, more than double the 2.3 million tons contracted for in 1997. Kyiv announced... MORE

The Ukrainian parliament on October 15 amended the law on parliamentary elections, which it had adopted on September 24. (See Monitor, September 25) Acting in... MORE

Nigeria's defense spokesman, Col. Godwin Ugbo, said in Laos on October 14 that Ukrainian ships were carrying food and fuel to the military junta in... MORE

The commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, Vice-Admiral Steve Abbot, arrived at Yalta yesterday aboard his flagship, the USS La Salle. Abbot then drove to... MORE

Ukrainian Defense and Security Council head Volodymyr Horbulin yesterday publicly criticized the country's Defense Ministry and the General Staff for "drift, inconsistency, and incoherence" in... MORE

The Ukrainian parliament yesterday approved a new law on parliamentary elections, changing the existing majoritarian system to a mixed majoritarian-proportional one. Under the new law,... MORE