foreign notes

ProUA reports that president Yushchenko has accepted he will no longer be head of state in several months time. He sees no possibility of r...

I've just spent over two hours watching latest Savik Shuster program, on-line, here. It's rivetting stuff. The show was to comprise ...

Listen to a most interesting audio clip broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme " Today ", about this...

Paul Goble has written a good summary in his blog of a recent important article published in 'Dzerkalo Tyzhnya', by Volodymyr Horb...

Below is part of the transcript of today's interview with president Medvedvev on CNN. See video here "F.Zakariya: Talking about Uk...

President Yushchenko returned home empty-handed from a state visit to Turmenistan today. He was accompanied by two airplane loads of offic...

The last edition of the "Sunday Times" informs its readers that " President [Yushchenko] claims Kremlin is shielding his wou...

Several days ago the big-selling 'Segodnya' ran this story on "Ukrainian intellectuals'" appeal to the world to save ...

Listen to a 5-minute BBC Radio 4 "From Our Own Correspondent report, broadcast on Saturday 5th September 2009, on last weekend's o...

British PM Gordon Brown is not the only major world figure doing dubious and disreputable deals with Libyan supremo colonel Gaddafi. At the...

Listen to a concise 5 minute audio clip from the 'Guardian's' Luke Harding explaining yesterday's events in Gdansk and the n...

Amongst the many articles on the commemoration to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of WW2 in Gdansk today, I particularly liked one e...

Portion of a TV interview with President Medvedev on TV Channel Rossia's 'News of the Week' Programme, August 30, 2009: Intervi...

I can recommend this well-written analysis by Daniel Freifeld, from 'Foreign Policy': "The Great Pipeline Opera - Inside the Eu...

Do not miss an excellent report from BBC's 24th August 'Newsnight' program on Ukrainian agriculture, and how western companies a...

Below I have loosely translate several portions from a blog by the big-selling Russian language 'Segodnya's' chief editor, Igor...

I thought the following recent article on the 'Novosti Donetska' site to be quite revealing. I've translated portions below: ...

"World Agenda: Merkel and Medvedev share Ukraine's Munich moment" This story has quickly been picked up in the Ukrainian media...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has responded to President Medvedev's nasty letter and video blog [see previous blog] on the official Uk...

Watch, President Medvedev, the man in black, deliver a beligerent 5 minute video [with English subtitles], set against a balmy evening seasc...