Almost two months since Ukraine’s recent snap national election the members of the country’s new parliament finally gathered on November 23 to be sworn in as deputies, but the question of a future coalition government remains very much unresolved More

The Party of Regions has long based its election campaigns on promises of stability. However, the spoiling tactics consistently adopted by the party over the past seven months expose the hypocrisy of their stated commitment to stability for the threatening talk it really is More

In the early hours of November 18 a methane gas explosion rocked the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk, killing at least 89 miners. The death toll signals the worst coal mining disaster in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history and is a stunning blow to one of the country’s most economically vital and politically sensitive industries More

The press freedoms won in 2004’s Orange Revolution protests, together with the rise of the Ukrainian middle class and a burgeoning domestic advertising industry have combined to provide a huge boost to the weekly news magazine sector, with new titles appearing on an almost monthly basis. Can the market sustain such robust growth? More