Archive for February, 2007
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Ukraine and Russia are again at loggerheads over a visit last week by Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov to the Crimea. Acting chairman of the Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaichenko complained about Luzhkov’s inappropriate and undiplomatic comments in three areas. First, his criticism of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s transfer of the Crimea ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
Last year Donetsk oligarch Renat Akhmetov began to go public for the first time and to show a ‘human’ side to his public image. At a press conference he was asked what position he would like to have in the newly elected parliament to which he was elected for the ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
The signing of an agreement on 6 February by Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc to work together is of course an important statement, in of itself (www.razom.org.ua). But, it has taken a long time in coming as Our Ukraine went into official opposition five months ago. Why has ...
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