US-Ukraine Business Council celebrates 25th anniversary

WASHINGTON — This month marks the 25th anniversary of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, an organization that helps forge deeper ties between Ukraine and arguably the nation’s most important ally, America.

From today’s membership of 220 businesses, including the Kyiv Post, the council grew from humble beginnings. It started as an ad hoc group of seven companies in 1995 when former President Leonid Kuchma asked to meet with American businesspeople on a visit to Washington, D.C. The USUBC considers 1996, however, to be its first real year of operation — hence its quarter-century mark this year.