A popular Ukrainian website has published scanned copies of foreign policy guidelines, or "directives", for the official Ukrainian delegation's visit to the USA on 3-7 December.The document was drafted by the office of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who headed the delegation, and approved by President Viktor Yushchenko with no major changes, according to the website...
Just a couple of days before the vote that has recognized the Holodomor as genocide, the Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration, attached to the Office of the President of Ukraine, organized and held a “scientific and practical” conference on the Holodomor, titled “The Pages of Memory: the Tragedy of the Ukrainian People 1932 –1933”...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko became the country's first president to veto a state budget and send it back to parliament with a 20-day deadline...
The forced famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 cost the lives of an estimated number of 10 million people, which back then, amounted to nearly 1/3 of the Ukrainian population...
I CALLED Alexander Litvinenko in London to ask him about poison and the K.G.B., and he was glad to oblige. Yes, he said in that interview two years ago, he believed that the Russian security agency was behind the dioxin poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, who was running for president of Ukraine...
The Ukrainian American community is deeply disturbed by recent events in Ukraine. We believe that the continued confrontation between the branches
of power and illegal decisions by the Parliament prove that Ukraine is returning to anarchy, based not on democratic principles, but on personal interests of its politicians...
During his recent visit to Washington, D.C., PM Viktor Yanukovych's declarations of Ukraine's battle with corruption were not very convincing. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer said he believes Ukraine's Tax Administration has returned to politics of favoritism...
Ukrainian regional gas companies said Thursday that RosUkrEnergo, the intermediary company that supplies Ukraine with gas imports, is trying to seize control over them. The heads of six regional gas companies said that after their shareholders refused to sell shares to RosUkrEnergo in October, law enforcement bodies began harassing the businesses with constant checks, the Interfax news agency reported...
Oak Ridges MPP Frank Klees, the PC Education and Citizenship & Immigration Critic today made the following statement in the Legislature on the anniversary of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932:
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to commemorate the anniversary of the Ukrainian genocide of 1932 known as the ‘Holodomor...’
Ukraine will reject any effort to be used as a pawn in any struggle for influence between Russia and the West, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said yesterday at the end of a two-day visit to Washington. But Mr. Yanukovych, whom many in Washington fear is tilting away from the pro-Western reform alliance that spearheaded Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution...
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“TEXT OF DIRECTIVES FOR THE PRIME MINISTER’S VISIT TO USA, WHICH CAUSED THE ROW BETWEEN THE PRES AND PM”
