Ukraine

Disabled rule the roost at food deliverer

If you order up some home-made Holybtsi and a couple bars of your favorite Lviv chocolate from a brand-new food delivery service in Kyiv, you'll …
Interns

The dark secrets of Babi Yar

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 …
Interns

Ukraine practices gentle disarmament

Ukraine disappointed a high-level U.S. delegation in Ukraine to witness the country’s progress on disarmament by merely dismantling one of its old …
Stefan Korshak

Trading down

Dennis Nathan and Victor Lander are convicted criminals. They are also entrepreneurs who briefly accomplished what nearly all of Ukraine's …
Editorial

Dragged down by the ruble

rnment support, an expanding Russian customer base and cheap labor and materials. To top it all off, Ukraine's largest engine maker could rely on …
Interns

Black market currency exchange draws a crowd

Dressed almost universally in leather jackets, they huddle in front of Kyiv’s largest department store on Prospekt Peremohy. They greet anyone …
Oleksiy Barankevych

Country risk analysts: study yourselves

'Banks don't just stand back from a map on the wall and throw a dart' explained Alvin Rice of Bank America at a hearing before the U.S. …
Interns

Russian’s reunion pleas drowned in catcalls

A visit by Russian State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev turned into a political circus on Tuesday as Ukrainian patriots reacted sharply to the Russian …
Nathan Hodge

P&G looks to weather hryvna crisis

Just a week after suspending its activities in financially crippled Russia, American consumer products company Procter & Gamble announced last week it …
Vitaly Sych

Letters To The Editor

Pathetic winer-diners embarrass fellow Americans As an American male expatriate I find ridiculous Ivan Lozowy's opinion [in 'Diaspora …
Editorial

Young ‘professional’ takes top media job

The Cabinet of Ministers has confounded prophets warning of an imminent Soviet-style clampdown on state-owned broadcast media by appointing a …
Nathan Hodge

Miseducating for the 21st century

Widespread bribery and plagiarism and outdated teaching techniques are crippling Ukrainian higher education and producing unqualified students. It is …
interns

Opposition figure still detained without charge

The administration of President Leonid Kuchma is responding with time-honored tactics to an opposition drive to oust him and his government from …
Stefan Korshak

Miseducating for the 21st century

Widespread bribery and plagiarism and outdated teaching techniques are crippling Ukrainian higher education and producing unqualified students. It is …
interns

Miseducating for the 21st century

Widespread bribery and plagiarism and outdated teaching techniques are crippling Ukrainian higher education and producing unqualified students. It is …
Interns

Kyiv yard rolling as others reel

The Kyiv-based Leninskaya Kuznitsa shipyard put the finishing touches on a Ukrainian shipbuilding rarity last week: a crude oil tanker. Named the …
Stefan Korshak

So you think you have trouble with customs?

The International shippers have tagged Ukraines Customs Service as Europe`s most rapacious outside of war zones. Copier importer Dimitry Skvertsov …
Stefan Korshak

Hryvna slide picks up speed

The hryvna’s long descent has picked up speed, shining an unflattering spotlight on the country’s leaders as they sought to reassure the world there …
Stefan Korshak
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