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20.12.2011
The European Union and Ukraine have finished negotiations on a landmark cooperation agreement, but whether the bloc signs the deal still hinges on the treatment of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the EU president said Monday. The EU has strongly condemned the October sentencing of the former premier and opposition leader to seven years in prison, dismissing the verdict as politically motivated and calling for her release... |
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20.12.2011
On the eve of the Dec. 19 Ukraine-European Union summit, Kyiv’s chances of making a breakthrough in relations with Brussels appear to be fading. European officials have repeatedly warned that closer ties through free trade and association agreements would not happen as long as opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko remains in jail on charges seen as politically motivated. Many – but not all – observers think that President Viktor Yanukovych is calling the shots in the judicial assault on the former prime minister, a course of action that is undermining his own often-stated foreign policy priority of EU integration... |
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10.11.2011
Just when it seemed that Russia’s way to the World Trade Organization was finally clear, Ukraine and the US Congress have decided to put a spoke in Moscow's wheel. After Russia and Georgia reached a compromise at the WTO negotiations, Kiev threatened to use its veto right unless it gets cheaper gas and free access for Ukrainian goods to the Russian market. While the US Congress demanded that Russia be obliged to join the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) before accessing the WTO... |
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10.11.2011
Activists from the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN) staged a "public trial" of Bolshevism on Mykhailivska Square in central Kyiv. They erected a plaster statue, Lenin on His Knees, showing the leader of the proletariat clad in a red jacket and grey trousers. However, the action drew few participants. But the few who did join the protest carried posters rebuking Communists for organizing mass political repressions, building concentration camps, destroying Ukraine's intellectuals and Autocephalous Orthodox Church, cooperating with the Nazis and unleashing World War II... |
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31.10.2011
In September 2008, Ukraine seemed headed towards signing an Association Agreement with the European Union (EU) the following year, in 2009. Three years later, in 2011, the Agreement has still not been concluded. The latest obstacle to finalizing the process is the October 11, 2011, sentencing of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. A resolution passed by the European Parliament on October 27 describes the seven-year jail sentence given to Tymoshenko “as a violation of human rights and an abuse of the judiciary for the purpose of the political suppression of Ukraine's leading opposition politician.”... |
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31.10.2011
An agreement on creation of the free trade area (FTA) between the CIS countries provides for reduction, not expansion of a list of goods, included into the FTA, President of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB) Oleksandr Suhoniako has said, UKRINFORM reports. "Article 2 of the Agreement on the free trade zone provides for 40 pages of withdrawals from the free trade regime. This is actually "an agreement on withdrawals from the free trade area" rather than the free trade area agreement," he said. According to Suhoniako, the agreement provides for the use of import duties for goods from Ukraine by Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Russia, in particular, for sugar, vodka, sugar beet seeds and lactose... |
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25.10.2011
Former KGB agent Putin has put a closer union with the now-sovereign republics at the top of his agenda since announcing plans to return to the Kremlin in a job swap with President Dmitry Medvedev in March. He promoted a “Eurasian Union” in an article published on October 4 – an idea denounced by leading Republicans in the US Senate – and on Tuesday disclosed the creation of a new post-USSR free trade zone... |
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24.10.2011
President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday rejected rising Western pressure to review the conviction of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, raising the stakes as he navigates between Ukraine's powerful neighbors, Europe and Russia. In a meeting with a half-dozen Western reporters at his offices, Mr. Yanukovych appeared unbent by criticism from Europe and Washington that last week's conviction of Ms. Tymoshenko, a former prime minister, on charges of exceeding her authority, was a politically motivated effort to sideline a once-powerful rival. Western officials have pushed for the seven-year jail sentence to be commuted or eliminated... |
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11.10.2011
A just-released study by the International Center for Future Research has some bad news for southeastern Ukraine. According to the center’s calculations, the quality of life is lowest in a coherent swath of territory running from south to east. Of Ukraine’s 27 provinces, Zaporizhzhya is 22nd, Mykolaiv is 23rd, Kherson is 24th, Luhansk is 25th, Donetsk is 26th, and Dnipropetrovsk is dead last. The two outliers are Kharkiv in the northeast, which is 2nd, and Chernihiv in the north, which is 21st... |
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06.09.2011
Ukraine is being squeezed from two sides as it tries to renegotiate a gas supply agreement with its former master, Moscow, and advance toward a free trade deal with the EU. Russia makes no secret of the fact that it would like more influence over Ukraine's energy infrastructure, while the European Union objects to a trial that bolsters Ukraine's negotiating position with Russia in the gas dispute. Realistically, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich is unlikely either to sell Ukraine's prize asset to Moscow or abandon the trial of his political arch-rival, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko... |
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