After two years of bitter wrangling between president and parliament, and following an all-night debate, the Ukrainian parliament this morning adopted a new constitution. Parliament... MORE

Ukraine's president and government withheld any immediate reaction to Russia's June 16 election. Minister of Defense Valery Shmarov said that Ukraine would have to work... MORE

Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council head, Volodymyr Horbulin, has conferred with top NATO leaders and the ambassadors of member countries at allied headquarters in... MORE

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and the parliament's socialist chairman Oleksandr Moroz yesterday advanced conflicting interpretations of the validity of the existing constitutional agreement. Moroz initiated... MORE

Secretary General of the Council of Europe Peter Leuprecht yesterday criticized Russia and Ukraine for their continued use of the death penalty despite their Council... MORE

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma yesterday conferred with heads of parliamentary groups on ways to overcome the situation created by a leftist boycott of the parliament's... MORE

Belarus Popular Front Chairman Zyanon Paznyak yesterday announced an initiative to create a Belarus Information Center in Poland in order to "inform international public opinion... MORE

The central authorities in Kiev reduced the supply of electric power to Crimea May 28, saying the peninsula was in arrears on its fuel bills.... MORE

On his surprise visit to Kiev yesterday (see Monitor, May 23), Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin held two successive sessions of one-on-one talks with his... MORE

The European Union's executive trio (comprised of its current, immediate past, and next presiding country) issued yesterday in the name of the Union's 15 member... MORE