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Musings from an outpost on the edge of Western civilization.

Friday, April 28, 2006

Puppet masters and puppets

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When asked in a press conference today Tymoshenko reiterated she would not be prepared to accept a position other than PM in a 'democrat...

Can the markets take it?

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If, as LEvko reports, this mess won't be sorted out until June, will the markets hold still for that? That is a long time for politics a...
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Yanukovych takes control

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Giving his first press conference since the March parliamentary elections, PR leader Viktor Yanukovych has imposed his authority on the drif...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

More on Gazprom

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Anyone with an interest in Russia's waving of its 'gas weapon', its 'pipeline' or other metaphor in the air, and the rea...
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Gazprom - more worries for Europe?

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A couple of clipped paragraphs from articles in today's London 'Times' : Algerians and Russians in gas talks TALKS in Algiers l...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Lost in translation

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Unian reports that the press service of the US embassy in Kyiv announced US presidential aide and deputy national security advisor Jack D C...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

Easter break

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«Христос Воскрес!» President Yushchenko has delivered an address for the Orthodox Easter, asking his people to pray for unity and peace. The...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Lotto winner

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It looks like I have won about four different European lotteries in the past two weeks. At least that's what the emails tell me, emails ...
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Gazprom worries EU

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With their usual deft hand, Gazprom (and the Kremlin, we should add) has just added to their problem in the EU: Amid growing tensions betwe...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Gas and the Orange coalition

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Many political observers explain the mutual problems between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko as partly being a clash between prima-donnas. The quo...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Kompromat and backstabbing..

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Petro Poroshenko responded quickly to Yuliya Tymoshenko's accusations [of which I wrote yesterday ], in a lengthy TV interview last ni...

An interview with Yuschenko

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Here's an article by Anne Applebaum on her visit with Yuschenko. She's been good on the issues in this area of the world. I post a l...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Yushchenko' s dilemma..

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Vira Ulyanchenko, one of President Yushchenko's closest advisers, admits that a broad coalition in Parliament including PR and its leade...

Those russophobic, crazy Brits

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This is interesting: British Trade and Industry Minister Alan Johnson had eight meetings this year on how to block a potential takeover of B...
Monday, April 17, 2006

Depressing thoughts..

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Yekhanurov has discovered he shares quite a number of values with PR, and sees much in common with them on the development of the Ukrainian ...

So, how many were there?

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Hi all. From an investor point of view it makes no difference whether she said that her government would seize 3000 businesses or whether sh...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Skulduggery in Kyiv city council

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The newly-elected oddball mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chervonetsky was sworn into office Friday, apparently after a delay of two hours during whi...
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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Lingering sense of injustice

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The following story featured in Friday's Ukrainian 'Expres' newspaper. "Former Yushchenkite and now colleague of Yanukovych...
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Friday, April 14, 2006

Political hokey-kokey*

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Yesterday it looked like the 'democratic coalition' was on the way to being formed when Tymoshenko, Moroz, and Bezsmertnyi signed a ...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Orange coalition [re]formed

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Yuliya Tymoshenko, Oleksandr Moroz, and Roman Bezsmertnyi to-night signed a protocol on the priciples of formation of the coalition of demo...
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