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Ukraine and NATO
Ukraine’s joint letter to NATO signed by the president, Rada speaker and prime minister represents a watershed in Ukraine’s long declared goal of integration into trans-Atlantic and European structures. Ukraine finally has a clear foreign policy goal for the country that has clear implications for domestic reform.
The clear goal of seeking NATO membership breaks […]
The Ukrainian Elites Continue to Believe That They Are Above the Law
The failure of parliament to vote for Yulia Tymoshenko as Prime Minister through the inability of two deputies to vote because of interference in parliament’s technical equipment will not lead to criminal charges against Party of Regions deputies. Why? Because Ukraine’s elites continue – as they have since Ukraine became an independent state in 1992 […]
There is a Need to Go All The Way
Last weekend Ukraine commemorated the millions of Ukrainians who perished in the 1933 artificial famine. President Viktor Yushchenko has led the way in promoting these commemorations and has devoted a lot of his energy in revealing the horrors of Stalinist totalitarianism http://www.president.gov.ua/content/150_1.html
In 1983 the Ukrainian diaspora commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Ukrainian famine. This […]
Have they Learnt Nothing?
In the last week controversy again reigns over who will be voted speaker
during the opening of parliament on 23 November. The Our Ukraine-Peoples
Self Defense bloc (NUNS) voted for the leader of the Our Ukraine party
Vyacheslav Kyrlylenko to be their candidate for speaker. President Viktor
Yushchenko and the presidential secretariat were seemingly backing an
alternative candidate, National Security […]
Yushchenko Will Follow Moroz’s Fate
Friends who have returned from Ukraine tell me that the person on the street is saying “Yushchenko will follow Moroz’s fate”. I had reached this conclusion myself but I always find it interesting to have my views confirmed by Ukrainians.
Two decades covering Soviet and Ukrainian affairs gives people like myself a “gut insight” into […]