Ivano-Frankivsk branch of the Ukrainian Registered Cossacks announced it will leave the national association of Cossacks and create a new organization under a different name, Otaman (Commander) Vasyl Hryniv told ZIK July 17.
Ukraine foreign ministry has divided the country's journalists into 2 categories: those who are subject to simplified travel procedure and those who are not. Thus, only members of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine and several other unions specified
July 17, a hitman shot and killed Ihor Kulchytsky, a successful businessman and son of Karpaty player Ihor Kulchytsky. The accident happened at 10 a.m. on 6 Fredra St. outside the office of his construction company. The police blocked the
When the Eurocar company started car assembly in Uzhgorod, Zakarpattya back in 2002, it has manufactures 100,000 cars, with a Skoda Octavia Tour 1,8/110kwbecoming a jubilee vehicle, a ZIK correspondent reports.
Karpaty FC general Director Oleksandr Yefremov and President of Karol Vojtyla Cup organizing committee Gianluka Di Karlo signed a contract to hold football matches in Lviv. The signing ceremony was conducted July 18 during a press conference in Lviv.
June 18, following his climb up The Hoverla Mount, Pres Yushchenko said in a press conference at the top of The Hoverla that winners of the Beijing Olympics in China will receive lifelong stipends, ZIK reports.
The Seventh International Economic Forum is to be held in Lviv Oct 1-3. The forum titled "Partnership to Open Possibilities" will focus on the cooperation between business and government. The forum has been initiated by the Lviv city council, oblast
A 20-th commemorative event, Yavoryna-2008, in honor of UPA Oleni military school staff and OUN Commander Yaroslav Melnyk, is to be held in Roztoky valley near Lypy, Dolyna rayon July 18-20, Svoboda rayon branch spokesman told ZIK July 16. The
There are no guarantees the Russians will pull out their Black Sea Fleet from Crimea in 2017, the deadline set by an agreement between Russia and Ukraine, first Ukraine Navy Commander Borys Kozhyn said, speaking in a press conference in
According to June statistics, inflation in Ukraine has been curbed by the cabinet, Premier Tymoshenko announced today. "In July we kept inflation in check, lowering it 2.5 times on June 2007."
Russia continues to insist that NATO deny entry in the alliance to Ukraine and Georgia. This flows from its foreign policy concept recently approved by Pres Medvedev.
July 16, 2007, on their way from Kazakhstan to Poland 15 railway cars with yellow phosphorus were derailed near Ozhydiv, a town in Western Ukraine. As 6 of the cars broke, the phosphorous went on fire. Firemen couldn't put out
Pres Yushchenko must resolve the present political stalemate in VR by forcing United Center deputies to vote for coalition and government decisions. If Yushchenko fails in this mission, he will face early parliamentary and presidential elections, VR BYUT lawmaker Ivan
According to Communist party chief in Lviv Oleksandr Kalyniuk, July 12 members of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, CUN, provoked a scuffle at the Ukrainian-Polish border checkpoint where Communists were protesting arrival of NATO troops on their way to Odesa
The July 11 Congress of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) has appealed to all Orthodox churches in Ukraine "to view the situation in the Ukrainian Church not through the prism distorted by Moscow but with their own eyes, the
Only one political player lost when Verkhovna Rada refused to pass a vote of no-confidence in the Tymoshenko cabinet - Viktor Yushchenko, says director of the Center fro Political Research and Study of Conflicts, Mykhailo Pohrebinsky.
No strategic conclusions are to be made in the wake of the failure by the regions on July 11 to pass the vote of no-confidence in Tymoshenko's cabinet, because the political weather is changing very fast, and in a couple
The Party of Regions intend to initiate the dismissal of Education Minister Ivan Vakarchuk, claiming his order #461 of May 26, 2008 "On the 2008-2011 program to improve the teaching of Ukrainian in secondary schools with schooling in the languages
It beats me that changes to the budget can be proposed by the president. If this goes on, tomorrow oblast governors will propose their changes as well. It will result in officials taking over the role of parliament. It is
July 3, several Internet publications reported a meeting of SBU board which examined compromising video materials allegedly showing Yury Kushkaruk, SBU Liuboml station head, distributing among his personnel kickbacks from illegal contraband.
