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

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

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

The Ukrainian parliament on June 11 ratified -- but with crippling conditions -- the 1996 agreement, signed by 11 CIS countries, on the transit of... MORE

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

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

Writingin the current issue of the Kyiv journal Politychna dumka,National Security and Defense Council head Volodymyr Horbulinobserves that Ukraine's foreign policy doctrine has "de factorenounced... MORE

Consumer prices in Ukraine rose during May by only0.8 percent, according to preliminary official estimates. (Interfax-Ukraina,June 6) This means prices increased during the first five... MORE

The unwillingness of Ukraine's parliament to passthe 1997 state budget and the government's tax reform proposals-- and thereby to convince the IMF to release the... MORE