Almost two months after the country went to the polls in snap parliamentary elections, members of Ukraine’s two Orange parties finally signed a coalition agreement November 29, paving the way for the formation of a new government this week and a return to the prime minister’s office for Yulia Tymoshenko More

Last weekend’s Russian parliamentary elections marked the final break with the lip service paid to democratic principles during the early Putin years. Will the international community now refrain from grouping the former Soviet republics together and acknowledge that the boundary between European democracy and Eurasian authoritarianism has moved eastwards to the border separating Ukraine and Russia? More

In the first nine months of 2007 foreign investments increased year-on-year by 70.5% to USD 5.24 billion. According to the State Statistics Agency, the main driving factors were the financial and banking sectors More

Modern construction techniques and high-rise formats are very much the norm on Kyiv’s changing skyline. But not all developers are looking to create the dreaded concrete jungle More