Ukraine

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

Activists make final push for votes

Inside the stairwell of a shabby five-story tenement in Kyiv's outlying Lisny district, Hromada ward lieutenant Slava Matsyuk was ringing …
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Out with the old

President Leonid Kuchma has good reason to feel gloomy about Sunday's parliamentary election. He is rightly concerned that many frustrated …
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Daewoo brings great world of business to AvtoZAZ

ZAPORIZHYA – South Korea's Daewoo Corporation has arrived in Ukraine in a big way, pouring unprecedented sums into local car production and taking …
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The new cult of Leonid Brezh … er … Kuchma

In a dusty attic somewhere in Ukraine, there is a portrait of Leonid Kuchma, which is slowly taking on the features of the late Soviet leader Leonid …
Editorial

Stakes high for voters confused by choices Analysts describe parties' finance

ds and Women's Day greeting cards to tractor giveaways, help with voters' funeral expenses and outright bribes, parties and candidates have …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Crimean Tatars clash with police, threaten election unrest

Angry Crimean Tatar demonstrators clashed with police on Tuesday after Parliament rejected the ethnic minority's calls for broader representation …
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Farewell, Ukraine, a pirate country

I have lived and worked in Ukraine since the spring of 1993, primarily in an agriculture-related business, but I think my experiences are not uncommon …
Editorial

Capital's mayoral race in limbo

s. The only question is whether it will lead to an election. Before voters can make their choice among the 15 candidates for mayor of Kyiv, the …
Katya Gorchinskaya

GM, AvtoZAZ give mixed message on Opel production

That the Ukrainian economy stands to gain greatly from an agreement under which U.S. auto-maker General Motors would build cars in Zaporizhya is not …
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AvtoZAZ-Daewoo joint venture to be registered soon

(Reuters) A joint venture between Ukraine's AvtoZAZ carmaker and South Korean Daewoo Corporation will be officially registered in the near future, …
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Kyiv addicts offered free clean needles

officials, the capital's first free needle exchange program is scheduled to begin operating here Wednesday. Mobile and stationery distribution …
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Daewoo to assemble car kits in Ilychevsk

By the end of April, Ukraine's first foreign car production facility will have produced its first batch of Daewoo Nubiras. But the cars won't …
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Prosecutors seeking trial for Lazarenko

legislature to strip a former prime minister of his parliamentary immunity to allow his prosecution, according to news reports Friday. The general …
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Tragedy in the ring

It was brutal tragedy at its most irresistible: a gladiator from the world's last superpower travels halfway across the globe only to die after a …
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