Ukraine

Scandal shakes Eurasia foundation

One of USAID’s largest grantees in the region – the Eurasia Foundation – reopened its Kyiv office Sept. 20 after a month-long shutdown following …
Peter Byrne

Soapy Sales at Odessa car wash

ODESSA – Most drivers look at muddy lakes and pot holes dotting poorly drained roads here and see civic decay. But six months ago, Sergei Nizamov …
Stefan Korshak

Rada rejects law on sale of state assets

Parliament on Sept. 14 rejected President Leonid Kuchma’s draft law and decree on selling off state assets to generate funds to pay wage and pension …
Alex Berdnick

Terminal project dies in Yuzhny

YUZHNY – The oil terminal being built in this industrial center just east of Odessa will soon free Ukraine from years of dependence on Russian crude, …
Stefan Korshak

Ad agencies hope not to go the way of the dinosaurs

If you want to attract lots of attention, try a 40-foot-high, red inflatable dinosaur for size. A giant theropod, which bore a passing resemblance to …
Interns

Q&A Yury Kostenko:

Yuri Kostenko is the antithesis of half  a dozen leftists lining up for  presidency in Ukraine. Kostenko, 48, is one of the few presidential …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Y2K worry escalating in Ukraine

When Ukrainians raise their glasses to toast the new millennium in darkened, cold apartments, they may well be wishing Ukraine had stuck to the Julian …
Vitaly Sych

Catholic church on Smyrnova-Lastochkina to be rebuilt

There is no shortage of buildings in need of repair on Velyka Zhytomyrska and its surrounding side streets. A stroll through the area reveals rows of …
Interns

Kuchma rivals fear vote rigging

President Leonid Kuchma has packed the agency charged with refereeing Ukraine’s upcoming presidential election with loyalists bent on breaking the law …
Stefan Korshak

Closing the communications gap between agency and client

Ad firms, in addition to creating good advertising, must also deal with clients. Don't ever tell the client, but that's not always easy. Some …
Interns

No to martial law!

Because of four terrorist explosions since Aug. 31 that killed or wounded several hundred people in Moscow and in Dagestan, the region is on edge. …
Editorial

U.S. couple gives town helping hand

SHCHORS – The Soviet Union was still going strong when Cliff and Kay Netz, an American couple, met Ukrainian Nina Lazarenko 21 years ago during a …
Evgenia Mussuri

SPF sticks Turboatom investor with lawsuit

The State Property Fund announced Sept. 13 that it was taking a foreign investor to court over that company’s failure to meet its investment …
Alex Berdnick

The myths and realities of Rukh

The 10th anniversary of the founding of the national democratic movement – Rukh – caused a lot of soul-searching among its founders, present leaders …
Interns

Cleaning up profits in Odessa

ODESSA – Under the shade of acacia trees at sidewalk cafes, solid businessmen in pressed slacks and full-cut short-sleeves cut commodity deals and …
Stefan Korshak

More elite residential space rises near Prospekt Peremohy

The construction of elite residential space is one of the few active areas on the Kyiv real estate scene. Nowhere is that more evident than in the …
Interns

Studio 1+1: CME’s ills aren’t threat

Problems being experienced in Prague by U.S.-owned Central European Media Enterprises (CME), a major central European media company, will not affect …
Olena Nikolayenko

Odessa’s ok, but won’t admit it

ODESSA – It is habitual for Odessans to complain about faceless bosses in distant capitals such as St. Petersburg or Moscow. ‘So what makes you think, …
Stefan Korshak
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