WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department said on Thursday a government decision to change the spelling of Ukraine’s capital to Kyiv from Kiev had nothing to do with politics. “I don’t think this decisio
Oct. 20, 2006
Ukraine’s government has announced that personal income taxes will go up at the start of this year from a flat rate of 13 percent to 15 percent
Oct. 5, 2006
Inter-race marriages are on the rise with more Ukrainians willing to marry foreigners from Africa and Asia.
Aug. 24, 2006
Multinational building materials producer Knauf plans to complete construction of its second Ukrainian plasterboard plant by the end of August, thereby more than doubling Ukraine’s plasterboard output
Aug. 17, 2006
The historian and linguist maintained that the study of Ukraine was crucial because the country straddled the boundary between western and eastern cultures
Jun. 4, 2006
Former prime minister chosen for her energy, charisma and place Ukrainian politics
Jan. 19, 2006
We did our homework so that you can just bait your hook, cast away and then lie and wait
May. 25, 2005
Revolution keeps 5’nizza, Okean Elzy, those guys from Ivano-Frankivsk (“Razom nas bahato”) and TNMK among the nation’s most-listened-to artists.
Dec. 15, 2004
Step by step through the most important events in Ukraine’s independent history
Dec. 9, 2004
The once amiable relationship between UK-registered Watford Group and Dnipropetrovsk’s Privatbank has now turned sour over a series of lawsuits and smear campaigns that have exposed accusations of mon
Nov. 20, 2003
Officials in Moscow and Kyiv appear unable to end a dispute over a small island separating the two countries.
Oct. 30, 2003
Ukrainians of all ages head south for sun, sand and sounds as the Games get underway May 1; European Motocross Championships in the 500cc class get reved up in Chernivtsi; DJs Fun2Mass and Pavlov get
Apr. 30, 2003
Nation’s largest vodka maker eyes foreign markets as sales at home stall
Apr. 16, 2003
SPOKANE (Washington), May 23 – Eric Miller bakes 90 loaves of bread each day in a bakery named Mariupol after his hometown, and many who buy his bread are among 200 residents in and around Spokane who
May. 23, 2002
Says that the groundless arrest and detention of Oleksandr Tymoshenko shows that prosecutor's office can do anything it wants to ruin people's lives
Nov. 21, 2000
In a defensive strike against a rival group of Jewish leaders and businessmen who are trying to sideline him from Ukrainian Jewish politics, Ukrainian-Israeli businessman Vadim Rabinovich summoned mor
Apr. 8, 1999
Winter gloom has settled over the Presidential Administration building on Bankivska. The lord of the manor goes around snarling vague threats at shadow business tycoons and foreign media interests. Hi
Dec. 9, 1998
The reaction by the Nazi occupiers to the explosions and fires set off by the Soviet NKVD in downtown Kyiv on Sept. 24, 1941, was to randomly arrest 1,600 Jews and execute them. If that mass execution
Oct. 2, 1998
There are treats for mosquitoes and traffic police alike this Summer in a remote corner of Ukraine. Thanks to a new prize awarded by the Royal Geographical Society of London, the mosquitoes will get a
Jul. 28, 1998