RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN UKRAINE’S FUEL COMPLEX: COPING WITH THE LEGACY OF SOVIET PLANNING
Recent developments in Ukraine's fuel complex: Coping with the legacy of Soviet planning By Sergei Kolchin Ukraine has few energy resources of its own and... MORE
UKRAINE SCORES BIG ON INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS.
The Ukrainian government has launched a summer offensive on the world's capital markets. On August 13 it successfully placed $450 million worth of 12-month eurobonds... MORE
NATO-SPONSORED NAVAL EXERCISE UNDERWAY IN UKRAINE.
The Sea Breeze-97 exercise, held within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program, entered its active phase yesterday in Ukrainian waters off of Crimea.... MORE
UKRAINE MULTIPLIES FOREIGN MILITARY CONTACTS.
On July 21 a U.S. and a Ukrainian paratrooper unit began an exercise at a mountain site near Uzhorod, in Ukraine's Carpathian region. They are... MORE
UKRAINE’S TRADE FALLS.
Ukraine's foreign trade turnover fell 7 percent in the first half of 1997, standing at $18 billion, with a deficit of $849 million. However, although... MORE
UKRAINE RATIFIES EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION.
In a long-awaited step, the Ukrainian parliament has ratified the European Convention on Human Rights and five attached protocols. The legislature took no action on... MORE
RUSSIA TO PAY UKRAINE FOR USE OF MISSILE WARNING RADARS.
Russia will pay Ukraine $5 million over the next 2 years for use of the ex-Soviet ballistic missile early warning radars located in Ukraine, the... MORE
RUSSIAN AUTO INDUSTRY ON UPTURN; UKRAINE LOOKS TO FOLLOW.
In the first half of 1997 Russia produced 72,000 trucks and 460,000 cars, up 10 percent and 13 percent respectively over the same period in... MORE
DNIPROPETROVSK FIGURE NOMINATED FOR PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE.
President Leonid Kuchma has forwarded to the parliament for approval the candidacy of Valery Pustovoytenko for the post of prime minister. Born in 1947, Pustovoytenko... MORE
MAJOR NATO EXERCISE COMPLETED IN UKRAINE.
In the presence of U.S. defense secretary William Cohen, the Cooperative Neighbor-97 joint exercise in Ukraine came to an end on July 11. Some 1,200... MORE