Archive for December, 2006
So Who Poisoned Yushchenko?
Last week during President Viktor Yushchenko’s meeting with the media he was asked about progress in investigating who poisoned him during the presidential elections. His answer was surprising as he said that the authorities already knew who had done this and were close to arresting them. A day later Prosecutor Oleksandr Medvedko responded by saying […]
Washington Comes Face to Face With Viktor Yanukovych
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych paid his first visit to Washington this week after returning as Prime Minister this summer. The event proved to be a non-issue as nothing concrete came of the meetings. Ironically, he did sign an agreement with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US government body which has awarded Ukraine a grant to […]
Beautiful Riga
I had never been to the three Baltic states and so it would be both a tourist and a work visit to Latvia. Pavol Demes and myself flew from Kyiv to Riga on Baltic Airlines. For an unknown reason we were upgraded to business class which was largely empty. As we were sat waiting in […]
German High, Kyiv Blues
I flew into Berlin after fifteen years absence. The last time I was here I was one of those tourists who bought a fake chunk of the “Berlin Wall†from a Polish trader. The amount of fake wall sold to tourists like myself must be as long as the distance from Berlin to Sicily.
Berlin has […]