Ukraine

Diplomats: Ukraine doomed to drift

By supporting the Communists in Sunday's parliamentary election, hard-up Ukrainians have voted themselves four more years of economic drift, …
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Time to go for broke

If you are an aid donor hoping the government will finally put its finances in order, a businessman tired of extortionate taxation or a collective …
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Share prices stable as poll results emerge

(Reuters) Ukraine's PFTS stock trading system cited technical reasons on Wednesday for failing to provide an index, but dealers said share prices …
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Unlikely heroes for uncertain times

As characters, they were perfectly cast. As symbols, they offered definition to an epoch still unfolding in the former Soviet bloc. Men in the mode of …
Editorial

Mayor’s foes argue win at Odessa polls

The Odessa voters have spoken. Mayor Eduard Hurvits, incumbent and favorite local son, they like. Regional Administration head Ruslan Bodelan they can …
Stefan Korshak

Kuchma allies rally centrists after drubbing

President Leonid Kuchma's administration and his allies in the newly elected Parliament called Wednesday for cooperation on economic reforms, …
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Leftist win fails to stir T-bill market

(Reuters) Results from Ukraine's parliamentary election, giving the Communist Party a lead but not a majority, have had little influence on the …
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Time to go for broke

oping the government will finally put its finances in order, a businessman tired of extortionate taxation or a collective farmer fed up with arbitrary …
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UMC unveils dramatic cut in mobile phone rates Leading firm's rivals playing down talk of price war in cellular phone market

Ukraine's leading mobile telephone operator announced a big cut in charges Wednesday, but competitors said Ukrainian Mobile Communications' …
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Ruined cathedrals caught up in church politics

KYIV – In the heart of the run-down Podil district, surrounded by 19th- century townhouses and Soviet trams, a small gem of an anachronism has …
Lily Hide

The public's right to know upheld

More than two years of relentless efforts on the part of EcoPravo Lviv have finally paid off in a case involving construction of a fertilizer terminal …
Editorial

Brodsky wins at polls, still stuck behind bars

The public wants Mykhailo Brodksy in Parliament, but his jailers like him right where he is for the time being. Preliminary results show the …
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Divisions sink reformers’ hopes

Divided they fell. Together, the Reforms and Order Party and the Forward Ukraine election bloc polled more than a million votes in Sunday’s …
Victor Luhovyk
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Katya Gorchinskaya

Voters split by east-west divide

Asked to choose between 30 parties in last week’s parliamentary election, voters from most regions of Ukraine tended to stick with the old …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Kyiv's hotel building program gets few stars Wrangling forces out foreign investors

KYIV – Six weeks before the start of a banking conference expected to draw up to 4,000 foreign visitors to the capital, efforts to spruce up the …
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Voters shake off apathy, seek change

Some voters were moved by a sense of civic duty. Others cast ballots only to register a protest against economic hardship and corruption. Nearly all …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Comradely advice

Dear Comrade Symonenko: Congratulations. If the preliminary election results hold up, you have become the leader of the largest party in Ukraine's …
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Communists cry fraud after election results are delayed

National election officials failed to release preliminary voting results for parties as promised yesterday, citing reporting delays and unspecified …
Katya Gorchinskaya
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