Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
It has been commonplace in Ukraine to ascribe conspiracy-mania to political forces that have a neo-Soviet political culture who are pro-Russian. In Ukraine this would be of course supporters of former President Leonid Kuchma and since the Orange Revolution, the Party of Regions.
The Kuchmagate crisis revived conspiracy-mania; the Kuchma camp ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Yulia Tymoshenko’s handling of the 2009 gas crisis shows up the ridiculous nature of the treason charges launched against Tymoshenko last summer by the presidential secretariat.
The Western media regularly use the term ‘pro-Russian’ to describe post-Soviet leaders without explaining that ‘pro-Russian’ can mean very different things in Minsk and Kyiv ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
On Saturday I am going to Moscow to try to reach an agreement with Russia on reliable transit of Russian gas to Europe and not least, the reliable supply of gas to Ukraine.
In the current circumstances, fulfillment of this task will be a significant challenge.
The top priority for the government ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Mykola Martynenko was elected to head the Our Ukraine-Peoples Self Defence (OU-PSD) faction. His deputies are: Oleksandr Tretiakov, Ruslan Kniazevych, Taras Stetskiv, and Borys Tarasiuk. All 5 are members of the new enlarged orange coalition of BYuT, OU-PSD and the Voodymyr Lytvyn bloc.
The new leadership of OU-PSD ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
With another gas crisis between Ukraine and Russia unfolding the first (in my mind) good analysis of the energy sector in Ukraine has been analysed in the current issue of The Washington Quarterly:
Edward Chow and Jonathan Elkind, "Where East Meets West: European Gas and Ukrainian Reality"
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