TWO NEIGHBORS DISCREETLY QUESTION UKRAINE’S BORDERS.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's chief cartographer, Col. Vyacheslav Zhihulin, said yesterday that the latest session of the Ukrainian-Russian border delimitation commission had achieved no results... MORE
UKRAINE RAISES MILITARY PAY.
Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma has decreed an increase in military salaries and benefits for officers and NCOs, and established a new system of bonuses and... MORE
UKRAINE APPOINTS HIGH-PROFILE ENVOY TO NATO.
The Ukrainian government has appointed Col. Gen. Kostyantyn Morozov as the country's representative to NATO and, concurrently, to the West European Union. Morozov carries the... MORE
UKRAINE HIT BY RUSSIAN VAT.
Officials of Russia's CIS Cooperation Ministry and customs service said yesterday that the 20 percent Russian value-added tax on goods imported from Ukraine went into... MORE
UKRAINE, RUSSIA REVIEW BILATERAL PROBLEMS.
Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin conferred informally at Chernomyrdin's dacha near Moscow over the weekend on the wide array of... MORE
UKRAINE, WEU AGREE ON SECURITY COOPERATION.
During a two-day visit to Kiev, the secretary-general of the Western European Union, Jose Cutileiro, conferred with Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, Foreign Minister Hennady Udovenko,... MORE
UKRAINE, UZBEKISTAN SEEK TO END YELTSIN’S CHAIRMANSHIP OF CIS TOP BODY.
The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Uzbekistan, Hennady Udovenko and Abdulaziz Komilov, signed yesterday in Tashkent an agreement on the coordination of the two countries'... MORE
UKRAINE TERMED "VITAL TO EUROPE," BUT EU MOVES SLOWLY ON AID.
The European Union's commissioner for external relations, Hans van den Broek, completed a visit to Kiev with a statement that "a strong independent Ukraine is... MORE
UKRAINE DISPUTES LUZHKOV ON SEVASTOPOL.
The Ukrainian government has reacted promptly to a September 10 statement by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov that Sevastopol is "a Russian city" and "not part... MORE
UKRAINE CONCERNED ABOUT RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.
The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Skipalsky, told a Kiev press briefing yesterday that some major foreign intelligence services have recently intensified... MORE