GRACHEV PUSHES CLOSER SECURITY RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE.
Speaking to various audiences in Kiev January 4, Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev underscored Russia's desire to create a CIS multilateral security system and called... MORE
RUSSIAN SUSPENDS OIL EXPORTS VIA UKRAINE.
According to the heads of the Ukrainian State Committee for Oil and Gas Industries and the Druzhba pipeline system, Russia suspended transport of crude oil... MORE
UKRAINE, RUSSIA BARGAINING ON BOMBER AND MISSILE TRANSFER.
At a negotiating session December 27 in Moscow, delegations of Ukraine's and Russia's Defense Ministries again failed to finalize a draft intergovernmental agreement on the... MORE
UKRAINE PONDERS AGRARIAN REFORMS.
In a public address December 27, Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma called for the introduction of market reforms in agriculture and industries related to it, adding... MORE
FLU EPIDEMIC IN UKRAINE.
Two million people have fallen ill with flu in Ukraine, the nation's Health Ministry announced yesterday. At least one-third of those ill are children, four... MORE
UKRAINE, GEORGIA CONCERTING IN ADVANCE OF CIS SUMMIT.
Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and foreign minister Hennady Udovenko received in Kiev a special envoy of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze to discuss cooperation among the... MORE
TAX EVASION COMES TO UKRAINE.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers faulted "inefficient implementation" of the state's prevention program for the rise in economic crimes and misdemeanors over the past year. "Especially... MORE
UKRAINE SUSPENDS PRIVATIZATION OF OIL AND GAS COMPANIES.
Ukraine's State Property Fund has temporarily suspended its plans for privatizing Ukrgazprom gas company and the Ukrneft oil corporation. Sources cited Ukrgazprom's failure to prepare... MORE
UKRAINE, POLAND CHART COOPERATION.
The prime ministers of Ukraine and Poland, Yevhen Marchuk and Jozef Oleksy, accompanied by senior delegations, met in Poland in what was described as the... MORE
UKRAINE TO STRENGTHEN HOLD ON SERPENTS’ ISLAND.
A senior Ukrainian defense ministry official told a briefing that Kiev intends to increase its military presence on Serpents' Island in the Black Sea. Three... MORE