UKRAINE INTENSIFIES MILITARY COOPERATION WITH GEORGIA.
On an official visit to Georgia, Ukrainian defense minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk conferred with President Eduard Shevardnadze and signed with Defense Minister Vardiko Nadibaidze a package... MORE
UKRAINE’S NAVAL TOEHOLD IN SEVASTOPOL.
Yesterday's Russian-Ukrainian agreement in Kiev has apparently put an end to years of bickering on just where the Russian and Ukrainian components of the former... MORE
DID CHINA BUY EX-SOVIET AIRCRAFT CARRIER FROM UKRAINE?
A Russian newspaper on May 14 reported that China had purchased the unfinished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier "Varyag" for $2.4 billion as part of Beijing's effort... MORE
IMF SMILES ON ARMENIA, UKRAINE; FROWNS ON BELARUS, UZBEKISTAN.
Armenian finance minister Levon Barkhoudarian told a news conference in Yerevan on May 12 that official IMF approval for the release of the first $25... MORE
RUSSIA NOW ALONE IN NOT RECOGNIZING UKRAINE’S BORDERS.
The chiefs of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's legal affairs and border affairs departments told a briefing yesterday that Russia remains the only one among Ukraine's... MORE
PRESIDENTS OF UKRAINE AND BELARUS SIGNAL INTENTION TO COOPERATE.
The presidents of Ukraine and Belarus, Leonid Kuchma and Aleksandr Lukashenko, and senior officials of the two countries conferred on May 12-13 in Kiev on... MORE
UKRAINE: PRIVATIZATION WITHOUT PROGRESS?
According to the Ministry of Statistics, more than 6,600 non-state industrial enterprises were operating in Ukraine during the first quarter of 1997. These firms constituted... MORE
"UKRAINE OUTSIDE NATO" LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE.
A number of Ukrainian parliamentary deputies, notably from Dnipropetrovsk region, denied over the weekend that they had joined the "Ukraine outside NATO" group. Socialist and... MORE
UKRAINE TO CONTINUE MISSILE PRODUCTION.
The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Volodymyr Horbulin, said on May 10 that Ukraine could not agree to a U.S. proposal that... MORE
UKRAINE LOOKS TO IRON OUT DIFFERENCES WITH NATO.
As initial reports seemed to suggest (see Monitor, May 8), NATO secretary-general Javier Solana's May 7 visit to Kiev was marked by differences over the... MORE