Kyiv Post 20th Anniversary Series

He Said vs. He Said on Dec. 16, 1999

Vitaly Sych writes:  Hey Yankee, why waste your time reading that label? You’re fat anyway. Sometimes I wonder, who is that person in the supermarket, …
Vitaly Sych

The Kyiv version of Uncle Sam

Wavering investors should take note of the Uncle Sam’s story. When U.S. citizen Michael Don returned to his native Kyiv in 1995, six years after …
Vitaly Sych

Ukraine’s young flocking to Kyiv

Editor’s Note: In this Aug. 19, 2009 story, Vitaly Sych — who went on to become the chief editor of the popular Russian-language Korrespondent …
Vitaly Sych

Q&A with Hennady Udovenko: Saying that I have no chance is creating a myth

At 68, Hennady Udovenko is the oldest candidate running for president in the Oct. 31 election. He doesn’t have to worry about being an underachiever, …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Moroz calls foul on Kuchma

Oleksandr Moroz on June 7 fired the first salvo in a presidential campaign that promises to escalate into mudslinging war, accusing President Leonid …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Devaluation, default looms, warns finance minister

Ukraine will not be able to pay its foreign debts on schedule and might have to let the hryvnIa significantly devalue next year unless the …
Kyiv Post

Early sunsets, early deaths: Contract-killing season opens in Ukraine

Businessmen and government officials are falling. Since mid-September, at least five important businessmen and government officials have died from …

Goodbye, press freedom: Pislyamova calls it quits

An independent public affairs television program has abandoned the airwaves until the March parliamentary election, citing unspecified threats to its …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Black Sea dying of pollution

ODESSA – Around the corner from Odessa’s grand portside staircase, twin pipes gush a greenish-brown soup of untreated sewage into the harbor.  Nearby …
Kyiv Post

Small fries, big headaches: Agency alleges McDonald’s spuds are underweight

McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine are being accused by a state regulatory agency of skimping on their servings of french fries and violating other …
Stefan Korshak

Colleagues vow to press on

Twenty-four hours after the men and women of Vechernyaya Odessa newspaper lost their chief editor to an apparent gangland attack, upper lips are a bit …
Stefan Korshak

Newspapers sponsor feels wrath of authorities

Almost as quickly as it reached the top of Ukraine’s corporate heap, the Dendi holding company has fallen on hard times brought on by endless raids …
Katya Gorchinskaya
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