At times over the last several years in this city I've gotten the sense that Ukraine's been living through its own version of that 'vacation from history' that, conventional wisdom has it, the US lived through starting when the USSR

In the sort of self-correcting move that American lending institutions never managed to pull off - with the result that the US is now facing a cataclysmic financial crisis - Ukrainian banks have been quietly tightening the reins on their

Ask a foreign man of a certain type what he knows about Ukraine and you might get various unexpected answers, but there's one predictable one - Ukrainian women. Yes, he'll say, they're beautiful and smart, but they're also easy to

We've been spouting in these pages for months now about how close Ukraine was coming to losing the right to host the 2012 European football championships in partnership with Poland, and at least once we even declared the whole deal

Looks like Ani Lorak won't be inviting Christina Aguilera over for borsch when the American mega-star comes to Kyiv later this month to play Ukraine Palace. Apparently Aguilera's handlers insulted Lorak by suggesting that Lorak open up for Aguilera for

Like spurned suitors, Russians have bitter feelings toward Ukraine, according to a new poll that indicates that 52.6 percent of them have negative feelings toward the country. The poll, conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and Russia's Levada