foreign notes

Today's Ukrainska Pravda runs an article in both Ukrainian and Russian, which describes the uniquely close friendship and ties between ...

Respected journalist Vitaliy Portnikov, interviewed by the BBC Ukrainian service today, is asked about the lessons Ukraine can draw from rec...

"Today's gas import scheme [for importing three-quarters of Ukraine's gas needs from Central Asia and Russia via monopolistic t...

A big reason why PoR and its businessmen sponsors will do all they can to prevent Tymoshenko becoming PM was highlighted in an article in ...

A couple of days ago leading editor of the sensational anthology "Donetsk Mafia", Boris Penchuk, admitted at a press conference th...

This from today's 'Kommersant-Ukraina' At yesterday's cabinet of ministers council, Viktor Yanukovych made it clear he inten...

Interesting speculation in 'Kommentarii' this week, some of which I have paraphrased below: 'Regionaly' will never again ach...

Yushchenko postpones any referendum on Ukraine's NATO membership for many years into the future. "As regards formal membership or n...

A hefty report entitled 'Corruption, Democracy, and Investment in Ukraine' from the Washington-based Atlantic Council of the United ...

Today former Nasha Ukraina 'big beast' Petro Poroshenko was interviewed on Radio Svoboda, by his former Channel 5 employee Roman Skr...

Yuriy Yekhanurov is rocking the boat again today, as is Ivan Plyushch who has refused to sign the latest BYuT-NUNS agreement. As usual, dur...

Former PM and now NUNS deputy Yuriy Yekhanurov has called upon the BYuT-NUNS coalition to begin negotiations with PoR and the Lytvyn bloc. ...

An article in 'Gazeta po Kiyevski' says that, unsurprisingly, PoR are doing all they can to drive wedges between BYuT and NUNS and e...

A possible solution of the the sticky problem of forming a workable coalition in the VR could lie in sub-divisions of the main political par...

Check out this story from the recently much improved 'Kyiv Post' before it goes to subs. only. I've put it into my blog to illus...

On Monday evening BYuT and NUNS signed a declaration of intent to work together as a ruling coalition in the VR, having gained 228 seats. Th...

Last weekend a statue of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera was unveiled in Lviv. Rather embarrassingly, some observers say the sta...

Tonight, in the offices of the presidential secretariat, the leaders of BYuT and NUNS signed a statement on their intent to form a coalition...

BYuT and NUNS have not yet submitted their coalition agreement to the president, but should do so Monday or Tuesday. Whether the Orange BYu...

Here's some interesting speculation from 'Gazeta po Kiyevski': On 8th October the president met the leaders of the parties that ...