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The operation began at 4 a.m. on April 28, 1947. Over a period of roughly three months, some 20,000 soldiers of the Polish People’s Army and other police forcibly cleansed the ethnic composition of the southeastern regions of Poland, relocating some 150,000 Ukrainians to the northeast. May 9 at 16:20 | Askold S. Lozynskyj |
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President Viktor Yanukovych has stepped into another scandal, this one over his assets. He declared his total income for 2011 as being 17,362,024 hryvnia, which, at 8.03 hryvnia to the dollar (the exchange rate on April 15th), comes out to $2,163,257. Read the story here. May 4 at 11:27 | Alexander J. Motyl |
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Just weeks before the start of the Euro 2012 football games in Ukraine, a series of bombings in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk raised huge concerns over the country’s ability to host the tournament. Read the story here. May 1 at 23:57 |
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Michael Willard writes: The Kyiv Post rejects paid advertising that does not meet our ethical standards. 2 days ago at 19:58 | Michael Willard |
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Eugene Harrison writes: Economic progress will have to come from bottom up. 2 days ago at 19:40 | Eugene Harrison |
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Do you think sexual minorities should have the same rights as heterosexuals? 2 days ago at 19:28 | Maryna Irkliyenko |
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Beijing, China; Wellington, New Zealand; Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine. Other than being national capitals, they are all cities where I biked to work every day. 3 days ago at 12:55 | Llywelyn Graeme |
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The Ukrainian TV personality who tries to out-Borat Borat got what he wanted: face time withWill Smith. In fact, he got more than that. He got face-smacking time. The morning news TV performer -- I won’t call him a reporter -- named Vitalii Sediuk was evidently just up to his usual "hey-look-at-me-messing-with-this-famous-person" hijinks when heaccostedSmith on the red carpet at the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III." Read the story here. May 22 at 23:09 |
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Editor’s note: Timothy Ash is global head of emerging markets research at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. This article is an abridged version of a note circulated to investors after a visit to Ukraine. May 17 at 10:58 | Timothy Ash |
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Let us see, what can Ukrainians perform collectively right? Theater and pageantry come to mind. Natalka Poltavka, a late 18th century traditional folksy love drama, playing on the theme “All’s well that ends well”, still captures imagination. May 14 at 09:09 | Boris Danik |
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Ukraine has long been called “the breadbasket of Europe,” and for one excellent reason: its fertile black soil. The estimated value of this treasure is anywhere between$ 40 and $80 billion. The only problem with investing in such an obviously profitable business was an artificial bureaucratic/legislative barrier commonly known as the “moratorium on alienation of farm land” (the “moratorium”). May 13 at 18:18 | Alex Frishberg |
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In November 2002, President Leonid Kuchma was advised not to attend NATO’s Prague summit, but he ignored the advice and went. NATO changed the language used to allocate seats for countries, using French not English, and thereby ensured Kuchma would not sit next to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush. Kuchma had become an international pariah following the Kuchmagate and Kolchugagate scandals that revealed his alleged involvement in the disappearance and murder of journalist Georgi Gongadze and the sale of military equipment to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. May 11 at 16:46 | Taras Kuzio |
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The mysterious bombs have exposed how distrustful the public and government are of each other and the incompetence of law enforcement autorities. May 10 at 22:19 | Kyiv Post |
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Olesiy Opanasiuk writes: Men die too early in Ukraine, depriving younger generations of wisdom that comes with age, experience and education May 10 at 21:59 | Oleksiy Opanasiuk |
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Why do nations with a progressive tax rate and a reasonable estate tax have a thriving middle class while nations with a flat tax rate and no meaningful estate tax do not? The five economies with a thriving middle class and their top tax rate: May 9 at 19:44 | Eugene Harrison |