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
UKRAINE RENOUNCING NONALIGNMENT ON THE ROAD TO NATO.
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
INFLATION CONTINUES TO FALL IN UKRAINE BUT UNEMPLOYMENT THREATENSTO RISE.
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
UKRAINE’S ECONOMY SUFFERS THE EFFECTS OF A DETERIORATING FINANCIALSYSTEM.
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