UKRAINE ADOPTS NEW CONSTITUTION.
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 SLOW TO REACT OFFICIALLY; DEMOCRATS WORRIED, COMMUNISTS UPBEAT.
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 REDOUBLES EFFORTS TO FORMALIZE COOPERATION WITH NATO.
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
UNCERTAINTY IN UKRAINE OVER CONSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT.
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
MOSCOW, UKRAINE CRITICIZED FOR DEATH PENALTY.
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
UKRAINE’S LEFTIST DEPUTIES TRIGGER PARLIAMENTARY CRISIS.
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
UKRAINE, POLAND SIGNAL DISAPPROVAL OF LUKASHENKO.
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
UKRAINE CUTS POWER SUPPLY TO CRIMEA.
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
UKRAINE-RUSSIAN TALKS STUMBLE OVER KREMLIN INTRANSIGENCE.
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
UKRAINE GETS ENCOURAGING SIGNAL FROM EUROPEAN UNION…
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