Ukraine’s recent application to join the NATO Membership Action Plan has provoked a new round of threats and indignation from the Kremlin. It would be ironic but certainly not unprecedented if Ukraine’s largely uninterested population were driven into the NATO camp by the arrogant posturing of Moscow and the rhetoric of Ukraine’s Russophile minority More

President Yushchenko used his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week to urge international players to invest in Ukrainian energy sector in what was the latest attempt to arrange alternatives to Russia’s regional energy stranglehold More

The Tymoshenko government has begun the New Year with a flurry of activity, but as attention focuses on the ruling Orange coalition, one question is being increasingly asked around Kyiv - where is Yanukovych? His current low profile has fuelled rumours of a rift within the Party of Regions and led to speculation that we could be about to witness a major political shift in the industrial heartlands of the east More

January 22 saw record losses on Ukraine’s stock market as the world’s financial capitals were hit by a major crash triggered by problems with mortgage loans in the United States, but analysts remain confident that the bullish Ukrainian market can somehow ride out the storm More