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The Tymoshenko-led cabinet will almost certainly not survive a vote of no confidence in the VR on Wednesday. The ’virtual’ BYuT-led ruling coalition has fallen apart, but is by no means certain that a new coalition can be constructed in the (...)
4 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Foreign Notes
In the light of Ukraine’s election result, Ethan S. Burger offers a proposal for the creation of a new Ukrainian state. Partition would do more than better reflect the country’s national/ethnic composition, he suggests. It could also make the (...)
19 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | openDemocracy
On the eve of the crucial run-off in Ukraine’s presidential election, Fabrizio Tassinari argues that enlargement fatigue in the EU has meant that since the Orange Revolution Ukraine has been offered no real prospect of joining Europe. By Fabrizio (...)
5 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | openDemocracy
Gazprom is a behemoth: it is Russia’s largest company, state-controlled and the world’s largest gas producer. Engaged in gas exploration, processing, and transportation, it operates an extensive pipeline network stretching thousands of (...)
29 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Staffjam
We were asked repeatedly offline and in the comments for our views on what was or was not going on in the Ukraine, but we steadfastly declined to post on it. We didn’t know any more than you can find out from news sources, so we had nothing to add (...)
17 nov. 2009 | | Effect Measure
My last blog on president Yushchenko’s national address on the flu epidemic has been placed in Taras Kuzio’s ’Ukrainska Pravda’ Blog. There’s has been quite a number of comments, some mentioning the impracticality of the (...)
10 nov. 2009 | 6 comments | Foreign Notes
President Yushchenko today blundered into the political fray surrounding a major sex abuse scandal in which three BYuT parliamentary deputies are allegedly implicated. The deputies have been questioned but, until now, have not had to face any charges. (...)
23 oct. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
Many core members of the EU share a common currency already - the Euro. Millions of citizens from new member Central and Eastern Europe countries are living and working in Western European countries with full access to job markets, accommodation, schools, (...)
8 oct. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
Paul Goble has written a good summary in his blog of a recent important article published in ’Dzerkalo Tyzhnya’, by Volodymyr Horbulin [who was a National Security and Defence Council secretary under president Kuchma] and Oleksandr Lytvynenko, (...)
23 sep. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
Watch, President Medvedev, the man in black, deliver a beligerent 5 minute video [with English subtitles], set against a balmy evening seascape, in which he describes the rapid deterioration of Russian/Ukrainian relations : here What is it with these (...)
13 aoû. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
According to pravda.ru, during Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Ukraine : "the idea of the "Holy Rus," or "the great Eastern-Slavic civilization" as a spiritual and historical, rather than a political, entity capable of saying (...)
10 aoû. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
The PoR/BYuT party coalition talks having collapsed, their leaders Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko have instantly declared they will both stand for president in elections taking place in half a year’s time. Most commentators consider both (...)
10 jui. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
Last week’s fracas at Frankfurt airport involving Minister of the Interior Yuriy Lutsenko has been picked up by some the world’s press. Naturally, the opposition is taking full advantage of the situation to destablise an already-wobbly (...)
14 mai. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
It seems that another ex-Soviet state on the European fringe is on the brink of revolution following the weekend’s elections in Moldova as students storm the Parliament building and face off against riot police and the military. On Twitter, (...)
8 avr. 2009 | | Nosemonkey
An article in the normally serious daily ’Obozrevatel’, entitled "Frankenstein comes to life - coalition of three almost a reality", claims that talks between BYuT, Party of Regions, and Lytvyn’s Bloc [BL] on the formation of a (...)
18 mar. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
In a TV interview today, the deputy of the head of the security service of Ukraine [SBU], Valery Khoroshkovsky, said he does not exclude the possibility of special alpha force units appearing in the office of the first Vice-Premier of the Ukraine (...)
10 mar. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
BYuT’s official website have posted the following today, which I’ve loosely translated below : Prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, speaking to the journalists during a working visit to France today, said she was convinced, that the (...)
5 mar. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
According to ’Segodnya’, President Yushchenko has proposed declaring a moratorium on political quarrels and forgetting about the presidential elections until 1st July. The declaration was made during a meeting with prime minister Tymoshenko, (...)
2 mar. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
Prosecutor-General and State Security Service [SBU] thrown at Tymoshenko. Decision by National Security and Defence Council theoretically opens up path to direct presidential rule The war between Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko is gaining momentum. (...)
12 fév. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
I’m posting this article by Anders Aslund in the ’Moscow Times’, in full, in case it goes to ’subscribers-only’ Will the Real Gazprom CEO Please Stand Up The great Russian-Ukrainian gas war is over, and it is time to assess (...)
5 fév. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
At first sight it looks as if the Russian/Ukrainian gas dispute has been resolved. Ukraine will get a 20% discount on the market price for gas in 2009 [whatever that means ], and transit fees paid to Ukraine for transporting gas westward will remain (...)
20 jan. 2009 | | Foreign Notes
I recently blogged here and here about the alleged supply of arms by Ukraine to Georgia during the latter’s recent mini-war with Russia in Southern Ossetia, and on the setting up of a temporary Ukrainian parliamentary committee to investigate this (...)
7 nov. 2008 | | Foreign Notes
Ukrainian Security Service [SBU] personnel in the Administrative appeal court in Kyiv today. Earlier a group of BYuT parliamentary deputies had blocked the hearing of a complaint from the president’s secretariat on the earlier decision of the Kyiv (...)
13 oct. 2008 | | Foreign Notes
Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was always painted (in the western media, at least) as a conflict between western-looking Yushchenko and the eastern-looking former Prime Minister Yanukovich, the man whose suspect election to the presidency sparked (...)
4 sep. 2008 | | Nosemonkey
This excerpt from an interesting article entitled : "Ukrainian political battle could hit European gas prices" from today’s British ’Daily Telegraph’ : "President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko, former allies (...)
30 jui. 2008 | 2 comments | Foreign Notes
Now the NATO Bucharest summit has ended and Ukraine’s NATO entry put onto the back-burner, PoR will quieten down the rhetoric on this issue. Today’s ’Segodnya’ runs a story entitled : "Source reveals ’Regionaly’ (...)
18 avr. 2008 | | Foreign Notes
Couple of interesting O.P.’s from today’s "Segodnya" The majority of Ukrainians - 75,1%, approve of neutral status for Ukraine ; 9,8% are against, 15,2% had difficulty answering. 62,3% of respondents are in favor of conducting a (...)
12 mar. 2008 | 1 comment | Foreign Notes
On Monday, an international conference - "A New Ukraine in a New Europe", took place at the ’Hyatt Regency’ hotel in Kyiv. Lots of distinguised westward-looking euro-integrators from the Ukrainian government, and foreign guests (...)
6 fév. 2008 | 1 comment | Foreign Notes
Last week, during Putin and Medvedev’s visit to Bulgaria, the South Stream gas pipeline project under the Black sea got the green light. When complete, it will enable transportation of Russian and Central Asian gas to southern Europe, bypassing (...)
24 jan. 2008 | 1 comment | Foreign Notes
Obozrevatel and others report that President Yushchenko will soon be getting a ’new toy’ - a brand-new Airbus A319 presidential airplane priced $40-$60 million, even though only about half that sum had been ear-marked for upgrading the (...)
3 déc. 2007 | 1 comment | Foreign Notes
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