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Akhmetov associate detained by organized crime police

Boris Kolesnikov, a close associate of Rinat Akhmetov, reputedly Ukraine’s richest man, was detained  on April 6 by the organized crime division of …
Roman Olearchyk

NTN television claims government persecution

horities on April 6 against any attempt to seek revenge against news media with ties to the old regime after journalists employed by the TV station …
Interns

Lviv castle project starts an argument

Bold plans to reconstruct an ancient castle in downtown Lviv have bothered civic preservation activists who fear the project could damage or even end …
Roman Olearchyk

President late again

Ukraine’s new president has a bad habit he predecessor didn’t have – tardiness. On March 31 Yushchenko held his fourth press conference in the last …
Peter Byrne

Plans for new passport up in the air

President Viktor Yushchenko’s cancellation of the new Ukrainian passport has a group of  of private and state companies crying foul, and law …
Vlad Lavrov

Tax debate

Two weeks after parliament adopted new budget proposals, authorities, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are debating how the amendments to the tax code will …
Viktoria Braychenko

On supermarket scene, a bold new player

, announced plans on April 5 to branch into Ukraine by buying up all five outlets of the Netherlands’ Spar supermarket chain operating in Kyiv and its …
Interns

FreeDom nightclub brings the fights

Boxing is seeing new life in Ukraine, first because of the famous Klitschko brothers, and now because of a deal between FreeDom concert hall and the …
Victoria Braychenko

Honeymoon isn’t over, but there’s work to do

ssian-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A., which she founded in 1995. Early in 2005, Paliashvili prepared a study on measures needed to improve Ukraine’s …
Interns

Ten Years: From Turkey, in love with Ukraine

As a teenager, Chala Mazlum, 32, was interested in the Soviet Union. Born in Adana, a city in southern Turkey, Mazlum  – who runs Kyiv’s Gurme …
Viktoria Barchenko

Golfing rolls towards Koncha Zaspa

es in Ukraine can find Western amenities and services, or at least something similar. But one thing they can’t find anywhere in Ukraine, First …
Interns

European Business Association discusses new tax laws

A recent European Business Association meeting, ostensibly about improving Ukraine’s investment climate, instead became a forum for criticism of the …
Yulianna Vilkos

Caution on NTN

d the television channel NTN that’s a good indication of the mess that Ukraine’s past can create for Ukraine’s present. It’s a mess that will require …
Interns

Ukraine as player

has been provided by the country’s recent attempts at international leadership. In January, then-President elect Yushchenko and Georgian President …
Interns

Hey, where’s all the postcards?

d in at every other shop in the heart of virtually every city I visited – Milan, Florence, Rome and Siena – to buy a postcard to scribble something …
Interns

7 Days in Kyiv

‘s adagio (with ballet) from “Spartacus” and a violin concerto in B minor as well as the Schnittke musical suite that was used for the made-for-TV …
interns

Dance offerings, Indian-style

n portray any idea, and even poetry, through it,” says Hanna Smirnova, art director of the upcoming 1st International Festival of Indian Dance. “It’s …
Olga Chala

Lunch with… Boston’s running man Daniel Burke

Every day before Dan Burke goes to teach middle school  at Kyiv International School, he gets up at 4:30 a.m. and is out the door by 5 a.m. to go …
Paul Miazga
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