UKRAINE PLACATES IMF, INTRODUCES CURRENCY CORRIDOR.
Strained relations with foreign investors and the failure to pass the 1997 state budget have yet to spell the end to Ukraine's financial stabilization or... MORE
MILITARY TRANSPORT SUCCESSFULLY FLIGHT-TESTED IN UKRAINE.
The An-70 military transport plane, jointly developed by Russia and Ukraine for domestic use and for export, was successfully flight-tested at the Antonov plant's airfield... MORE
UKRAINE CREATES HIGH-LEVEL ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY.
President Leonid Kuchma decreed yesterday the creation of a National Bureau of Investigations to combat official corruption and organized crime. The NBI will be staffed... MORE
UKRAINE SEES WEAK MOLDOVAN STAND IN TRANSDNIESTER TALKS.
In the Kremlin on May 8 Ukraine will co-sign the memorandum on the principles of settling the Transdniester conflict, but Kiev retains serious reservations about... MORE
UKRAINE HAS BUSY WEEKEND IN THE BLACK SEA.
Ukraine's Donuzlav naval base hosted a three-day conference over the weekend to plan the Sea Breeze-97 naval exercise, due to be held in that area... MORE
MOSCOW CALLS FOR CONDIMINIUM WITH UKRAINE IN SEVASTOPOL AND AZOV SEA.
Russia's Federation Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution yesterday urging President Boris Yeltsin to raise the "disputed issue" of Sevastopol in Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental negotiations, including those... MORE
UKRAINE WON’T SELL TURBINES FOR RE-EXPORT TO IRAN.
President Leonid Kuchma has offered "clear assurances" to Israel's visiting Trade and Industry minister, Natan Sharansky, that Ukraine will not supply turbines to Russia for... MORE
UKRAINE LAUNCHES ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAM.
Justice Minister Serhy Holovaty has made public a decree just signed by President Leonid Kuchma on combating official corruption. Described by Holovaty as a "rapid-response... MORE
UKRAINE CREATES TOP-LEVEL INVESTMENT COUNCIL.
The Ukrainian press published yesterday a decree by President Leonid Kuchma which institutes a Consultative Council to look into ways of attracting foreign capital investment.... MORE
UKRAINE ADDS INSULT TO SELF-INFLICTED INJURY.
The Ukrainian parliament voted last week to end tax breaks for foreign direct investors. (AP, April 9) The legislation approved the revocation of a two-year... MORE