UKRAINE SEEN AS PART OF CENTRAL EUROPE.
Receiving Czech president Vaclav Havel in Kyiv, Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma deplored "the historic injustice that Ukraine, geographically situated near the center of Europe, has... MORE
ROMANIA’S LOWER HOUSE RATIFIES TREATY WITH UKRAINE.
By a vote of 165-92, Romania's Chamber of Deputies ratified on June 26 the Romanian-Ukrainian framework treaty signed on June 2 by Presidents Emil Constantinescu... MORE
UKRAINE RESERVES NATO OPTION.
Ukraine's current non-bloc status, enshrined in its constitution, "does not foreclose Ukraine's option to enter into new or already existing alliance systems," First Deputy Foreign... MORE
TURKMEN-RUSSIAN GAS COMPANY DOOMED BY UKRAINE’S INSOLVENCY.
Turkmen president Saparmurad Niazov has decreed the liquidation of the Russian-Turkmen joint company Turkmenrosgaz. The company had been created in January 1996 to handle Turkmen... MORE
UKRAINE TAKES FIRST REAL STEP TOWARD REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIAN OIL.
Ukrainian state minister for energy and industry Anatoly Minchenko and Turkish energy minister Recai Kutan have signed in Ankara a $650 million agreement to lay... MORE
UKRAINE ASSUMING ROLE IN TRANSDNIESTER.
Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, acting prime minister Vasyl Durdinets, Foreign Minister Hennady Udovenko, and economic officials held meetings with a Transdniester delegation headed by Igor... MORE
UKRAINE CHANGES ESSENCE OF CIS AGREEMENT ON OIL TRANSIT.
The Ukrainian parliament on June 11 ratified -- but with crippling conditions -- the 1996 agreement, signed by 11 CIS countries, on the transit of... MORE
POLLS SHOW THAT MANY UKRAINIANS ARE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE
Polls show that many Ukrainians are disappointed with the state of democracy in Ukraine By Volodymyr Zviglyanich The Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian Academy... MORE
TALKS BOOST ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN IRAN AND UKRAINE.
On a just-completed visit to Kyiv, Iranian foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati discussed mainly economic issues, including industrial cooperation projects in Iran based on Ukrainian technology... MORE
UKRAINE, CHINA DISCUSS COOPERATION IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY.
Chinese defense minister Chi Haotian yesterday completed a five-day visit to Ukraine during which he conferred with the top political and military leadership and visited... MORE