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Interfax: Ukraine determined to continue efforts toward Euro-integration – Azarov to Westerwelle

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KYIV. Dec 5 (Interfax) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has assured German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle that Ukraine is determined to continue its efforts on the path towards European integration, noting, however, that extremists and neo-Nazis are obstructing this process. Azarov and Westerwelle met during the 20th session of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Kyiv on Thursday, and the […]

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RIA Novosti: Medvedev Denies Russia Pressured Ukraine to Abandon EU Deal

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MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukraine decided independently to abandon a long-anticipated trade deal with the European Union, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday, denying that Moscow pressured its neighbor into changing direction. “They realized that at the moment, they’re not ready for this,” he said in a televised interview on Russia’s state TV channel Rossiya 1. “In all […]

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The Bolotnaya Maydan

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(RFE/RL – rferl.org –Brian Whitmore – December 5, 2013) The latest threat to Vladimir Putin’s autocratic rule may be coming not from the Russian opposition but from the Ukrainian street. As tens of thousands continue to protest in Kyiv against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to scuttle a pact with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Moscow, […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine Owes Russia $2 Billion Over Gas, No Deferral Deals Yet – Gazprom

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MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukraine owes Russia some $2 billion for gas supplies and no plan is in place to settle the debt, the head of Russia’s Gazprom said Wednesday. Alexei Miller, chief executive of state-owned Gazprom, said it was in discussions with Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz to find a solution. “We are seeking variants to resolve […]

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Interfax: EU countries’ reaction to Ukraine’s refusal to sign association agreement with EU is “hysteria” – Lavrov

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KYIV. Dec 5 (Interfax) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called the Western countries’ reaction to Ukraine’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU “hysteria.” “This situation is connected to some Europeans’ hysteria, which was caused by the fact that Ukraine exercised its sovereign right in deciding not to sign an agreement that Ukrainian experts and the […]

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Lavrov Slams NATO Response to Ukraine

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Yekaterina Kravtsova – December 5, 2013) BRUSSELS ­ At a meeting with NATO counterparts on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed NATO’s response to recent protests in Ukraine and said last month’s deal on Iran’s nuclear program renders the need for missile defense in Europe obsolete. In response to a joint resolution issued by […]

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Interfax: Russia should not interfere in events in Ukraine – United Russia

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MOSCOW. Dec 3 (Interfax) – Russia should have tact and not try to give instructions to Ukraine on how to act in the situation of continuing protests in Ukraine, Andrei Klimov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee on international affairs and a member of the United Russia General Council presidium, said. “Further development of the situation depends on the […]

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Interfax: Brussels calls on Kyiv to stop playing with figures – EU diplomat

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BRUSSELS. Dec 4 (Interfax) – Brussels calls on Kyiv to stop playing with figures indicating how much money Ukraine needs to accumulate to proceed toward closer integration with Europe; the parties should instead start a constructive dialogue if they want to reach some tangible results on the way toward signing an association agreement, a high-ranking European diplomatic official said in […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine, EU Discuss Integration as Protests Continue

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MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) ­ The government of Ukraine said Wednesday that it has agreed on a roadmap for a future association agreement with the EU, which the former Soviet nation decided to delay last month. Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Arbuzov met with the EU envoy to Ukraine Jan Tombinsky to agree on a sequence of negotiations needed before […]

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Business New Europe: Spectre of revolution haunts Ukraine

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Graham Stack in Kyiv – December 3, 2013) Ten years on from the Orange Revolution that rolled back a rigged election, Ukraine again appears in the throes of revolution, after mass protests in Kyiv against the government’s failure to sign a deal for closer ties with the EU and ensuing police violence led to […]

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Interfax: Protests in Ukraine to go on, unlikely to result in revolution – Russian experts

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(Interfax – December 2, 2013) Protests in Kiev do not look like an orange revolution, but they may be the implementation of the scenario of part of the Ukrainian leadership, Gleb Pavlovskiy, president of the Effective Policy Foundation, has said, as reported by privately-owned Russian news agency Interfax on 2 December. Commenting on mass protests staged in Kiev and in […]

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Interfax: Ukraine asks EU to empathize with deferment of pact

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KYIV. Dec 2 (Interfax) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has urged the European Union to empathize with Ukraine’s November 21 decision to suspend preparations for an association agreement with the EU. “I now ask you to take an objective view of this situation, not to accuse us of insincerity but to trust us and make a concession to us,” […]

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Russians Asking Themselves Why They Can’t Act Like Ukrainians

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(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, December 3, 2013) Even as Russian commentators blame Vladimir Putin for creating “a revolutionary situation” in Ukraine (ej.ru/?a=note&id=23865), many more Russians are asking themselves why they and their nation have been unable to organize protests the ways that Ukrainians can. To ask that question is to pose two even more important ones […]

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TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Press statement and answers to journalists’ questions following Russian-Armenian talks (excerpt re Putin on Ukraine)

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(Kremlin.ru – December 2, 2013) QUESTION: Good evening, I realise that we are now in the capital of a brotherly republic, in Yerevan, one of my favourite cities, but I would like to ask a question about another capital that I like equally, about Kiev. Just recently there has been alarming news from there, and even calls for revolution. Accordingly, […]

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By Dashing Their Hopes, Yanukovich has United Ukrainians, Krylov Says

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(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, December 2, 2013) By his actions over the past two weeks, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has done something many in Ukraine thought impossible and many in Russia feared: he has given Ukraine a national idea and united Ukrainians of all nationalities behind it and against himself, according to a Russian nationalist theorist […]

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Ukraine does a U-turn on Europe

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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Gevorg Mirzayan, special to RBTH – December 2, 2013) Yanukovych declines a deal with the EU as economic realities hit home. President Viktor Yanukovych’s last-minute rejection of a planned Association Agreement with the European Union was unexpected and shocking for most of Ukraine’s public, who are imbued with the idea of European integration. […]

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RIA Novosti: Russia’s Successes, A Likely Trap?

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(RIA Novosti – Fyodor Lukyanov – December 2, 2013) Fyodor Lukyanov is Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs journal ­ the most authoritative source of expertise on Russian foreign policy and global developments. One can only marvel at how quickly things change. Just a short while ago, Russia seemed to be retreating on all diplomatic fronts. An attack on […]

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Interfax: Events in Kyiv are not revolution but plot against premier Azarov – analyst Pavlovsky

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MOSCOW. Dec 2 (Interfax) – The protests in Kyiv don’t look like an orange revolution but could constitute the implementation of a scenario of some Ukrainian leadership figures interested in ousting Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and changing the configuration of power in Ukraine, President of the Effective Politics Foundation Gleb Pavlovsky thinks. “On the one hand, most of the participants […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine Vows to Speed Up EU Integration, Wants ‘Equal Partnership’

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KIEV, December 1 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Sunday his country will continue efforts towards European integration but insisted that Kiev should be accepted as an equal partner. “I will do everything possible to advance the process of Ukraine’s rapprochement with the European Union, but without any serious losses for this country’s economy or deterioration of the […]

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Russia Offers Ukraine Cheaper Gas to Join Moscow-Led Group

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(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Irina Reznik & Henry Meyer – December 2, 2013) Russia will offer cheaper natural gas to Ukraine if the government in Kiev opts to join a Moscow-led economic bloc after halting free-trade talks with the European Union, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. Ukraine’s economic difficulties will be best resolved if it chooses integration […]

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EU deal remains Ukraine’s priority, but more time needed – president

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(Interfax – November 29, 2013) The signing of an association agreement with the EU remains Ukraine’s priority, President Viktor Yanukovych has said. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted him at 1122 gmt on 29 November as telling its correspondent following the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius: “This document is a priority. However, there remain very many important conditions needed for […]

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RIA Novosti: US White House to Consider Sanctions Against Yanukovych

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MOSCOW, November 30 (RIA Novosti) ­ The US government will have to consider sanctions against Ukraine’s leadership after a petition to the cause gathered 100,000 signatures on White House’s website. The petition asks to ban US and EU entry for and freeze assets of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and members of the his government, as well as their families. The […]

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Interfax: Duma Chairman Naryshkin: West applied unprecedented pressure on Ukraine to sign EU deal

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KAZAN. Nov 29 (Interfax) – State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin claims the West applied strong pressure on Ukraine to sign an association agreement with the European Union. “We all have witnessed unprecedented pressure on Ukraine on the part of Western countries and institutions: highest-ranking European bureaucrats in fact regularly attended not only Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada sessions but also sessions of […]

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Moscow Times: Economic Logic Pushed Ukraine to Russia

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anatoly Medetsky – November 29, 2013) For Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, it was not pressure from Russia that provoked Ukraine’s flip-flop on the association deal with the European Union. Azarov has said he bowed to the strong sentiment within the country for making up with Moscow, as exports to that key market declined. “I […]

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Interfax: Russia “has nothing to do” with Ukraine’s U-turn on Europe – Putin’s spokesman

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(Interfax – Sochi, November 27, 2013) Whether or not Ukraine signs an association agreement with the EU is an internal matter to be addressed exclusively by Kiev, the Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitriy Peskov, said on Wednesday [27 November]. At the request of journalists, he was commenting on remarks by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who had said that during his […]

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Interfax: Ukrainian public split over EU/Customs Union options – poll

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KYIV. Nov 26 (Interfax) – Ukraine is split practically 50/50 over the accession to the European Union or the Customs Union. Europe is favored by 39% of Ukrainians, and 37% prefer the Customs Union, said the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Some 76% of the Ukrainians polled in the middle of this November said they were ready to take part […]

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Yanukovych: Ukrainian economy needs at least $20 billion a year to shift to European standards

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KYIV. Nov 27 (Interfax) – The Ukrainian economy needs at least $20 billion a year in order to shift to European standards, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said. “In all, approximately $160 billion are needed in the period until 2017,” the presidential press service quoted Yanukovych as telling Ukrainian television channels on Tuesday evening. “This [association agreement] does not mean Ukraine’s […]

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Ukraine Offers New Deadline for EU Deal

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anatoly Medetsky – November 27, 2013) President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told EU officials to refrain from strong language over Ukraine’s decision last week to freeze preparations for a trade agreement with Europe in favor of tighter ties with Russia. Russia and Ukraine are part of a free-trade zone, Putin said, and the lowering of […]

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RIA Novosti: Russian pundits expect Ukrainian pro-EU protests rallies to fizzle out

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(RIA Novosti – November 25, 2013) The pro-EU protests in Ukraine will not bring about any serious political changes and are likely to fizzle out over time, according to analysts questioned by state-owned news agency RIA Novosti on 25 November. Pavlovskiy The level of protest of the supporters of Ukraine’s European integration is not high enough for one to talk […]

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MEDIA TELECONFERENCE EVENT: Ground Truth Briefing: Ukraine and Europe [Monday, December 2; RSVP requested]

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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 From: Wilson Center <wwics@wilsoncenter.org> Subject: Ground Truth Briefing: Ukraine and Europe Ukraine and Europe: A Turning Point? Dear Media Professional, Despite months of intense wrangling between Kyiv and EU capitals, it is now highly unlikely that Ukraine will sign the EU association agreement during the November 28-29 European Union Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius. Moldova […]

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EVENT: The EU’s Eastern Partnership: A Post-Vilnius Assessment [Tuesday, December 3 in Washington, D.C., RSVP required]

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From: Joseph Dresen <Joseph.Dresen@wilsoncenter.org> Subject: Reminder: Wilson Center event invitation: “The EU’s Eastern Partnership: A Post-Vilnius Assessment” Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 “The EU’s Eastern Partnership: A Post-Vilnius Assessment” The Kennan Institute and the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion with top experts and officials to analyze the results of the third […]

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Yanukovych to Explain U-Turn on EU as Premier Denies Russia Deal

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(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Daryna Krasnolutska – November 26, 2013) Ukraine’s president vowed to explain his snub of a European Union trade pact as Prime Minister Mykola Azarov denied a financing package had been completed with Russia, which opposed the accord. Viktor Yanukovych, who hasn’t spoken publicly since Ukraine decided last week to abandon plans to sign an EU association […]

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Interfax: Economic problems worst issue in Ukraine’s EU drive – Yanukovych

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KYIV. Nov 25 (Interfax) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said economic problems are the most difficult issues in Ukraine’s European integration. “We have passed a long way and we have yet to go a long distance. Economic problems have been the most difficult issues on this road,” he said in an appeal to the nation, posted on his website. “But […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine-EU Association Deal Still In View – Foreign Minister

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KIEV, November 26 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukraine has not abandoned plans to sign a landmark trade deal with the European Union, the country’s top diplomat said Monday. “Ukraine is not rejecting the agreement on association [with the EU], we are simply talking about suspension of its signing,” Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara told reporters in the capital, Kiev. “Neither Ukraine nor […]

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Ukraine’s president tries to calm tensions as clashes continue

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – November 26, 2013) Huge pro-European crowds were out on the streets across Ukraine for a second night running on November 25, resulting in more clashes with riot police, who struggled to keep order. Seeking to diffuse some of the popular anger against his government’s decision to freeze talks with the EU about an association […]

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Interfax: Premier explains suspension of association agreement signing by economic situation in Ukraine

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KYIV. Nov 22 (Interfax) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the government’s decision to suspend preparations for the signing of an association agreement with the European Union is tactical and stems from the current economic situation in the country. “The decision to suspend the signing of the association agreement with the EU was difficult, but it is […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine Hopes Russia Reviews Gas Contract ­ PM – Azarov

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KIEV, November 24 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Sunday his country had secured Moscow’s pledge to review a gas contract Kiev believes to be unfavorable. “We have been persistently trying to persuade the Russian Federation to review the contract,” Azarov told Ukrainian TV channel ICTV. “Now, generally speaking, there is such a pledge, and we hope […]

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Ukraine halts EU trade talks, asks for three-way meeting with Russia

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – November 22, 2013) Ukraine shocked European officials on November 21 when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych announced he was freezing negotiations with the EU and called for a three-way summit that includes Russia. Tensions have been rising ahead of an EU summit due to be held in Vilnius on November 28-19 at which Kyiv is […]

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Interfax: Russia not against Ukraine’s association with EU, would object to NATO membership – Putin

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MOSCOW. Nov 21 (Interfax) – Russia is not against Ukraine becoming an associated EU member, but it would object if Ukraine decided to join NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “We are not against Ukraine’s sovereign choice, whatever it is. We are talking about something absolutely different. If we heard that Ukraine joins NATO, then we would really be against […]

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NEWSLINK: Ukraine drops plan to go West, turns East

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[Ukraine drops plan to go West, turns East – Reuters – Richard Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk – November 21, 2013 – reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/us-ukraine-eu-idUSBRE9AK0S220131121] Reuters reports on Ukraine’s sudden shift from a pending deal with the European Union back towards Russia: Ukraine’s government announced it was suspending preparations for a landmark trade pact with the European Union … [saying] it would renew […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine Ditches Plans for EU Deal, Turns to Russia

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KIEV, November 21 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukraine’s government decided Thursday to call off the planned signing of landmark agreements with the EU that could have weakened the former Soviet nation’s bonds with Russia. The Cabinet said in a decree that the decision was motivated by the need to consolidate economic ties with Russia and members of the Kremlin-led Customs Union […]

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Interfax: Association with EU may limit Ukrainian cooperation capacities – Moscow

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MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) – Association with the European Union will significantly limit Ukrainian capacities for cooperation with Customs Union member states, in the opinion of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Liberalization of trade with EU member countries will tie up Kyiv with commitments to the European Union and EU directives for a long time but it will not be able […]

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RIA Novosti: Russia and Ukraine Reach ‘Compromise’ Gas Payment Deal – Kiev

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MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) ­ Russia and Ukraine have reached a compromise deal allowing Kiev to alter its payment schedule for Russian natural gas imports, Ukrainian Energy Minister Eduard Stavytsky said Monday. The new agreement will allow Kiev to pay on time for energy deliveries, honoring its commitments to both Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom and European consumers, Stavytsky […]

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Ukraine’s Choice: East Or West?

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(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Robert Coalson – November 15, 2013) “Ukraine at the Rubicon.” “Kyiv at a geopolitical crossroads.” “The battle for Ukraine.” The headlines have been dire and the expectations high as the clock ticks down to the European Union’s Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius at the end of this month. With less than two weeks to go, the […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine Resumes Gas Purchases From Russia – Gazprom

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MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) ­ Ukrainian national fuel company Naftogaz has resumed natural gas supplies from Russia, the chief executive of Russian energy giant Gazprom said Friday. “Naftogaz has stopped pumping gas out of its underground storage facilities and resumed purchases of Russian gas in accordance with the current contract,” Alexei Miller told reporters. Ukraine had halted Russian gas […]

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Nearly half of Ukrainians favor association with EU – GfK Ukraine

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KYIV. Nov 12 (Interfax) – Nearly half of Ukrainians – 45% – support the idea of signing an association agreement with the European Union, and only 14% approve of the accession to the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union, GfK Ukraine said on Tuesday in publicizing the findings of a public opinion poll of 1,000 respondents it conducted on October 2-15, 2013. Another […]

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Russian deputy PM paints black picture of Ukraine’s future in EU

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(Interfax – November 12, 2013) Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitriy Rogozin has warned Ukraine that traditional economic ties with Russia will be severed if Ukraine signs an association agreement with the European Union, Russian Interfax news agency reported on 12 November. Rogozin was speaking at Royal Institute of International Affairs (Egmont) in Brussels on the same day. Rogozin said: “You […]

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INTERVIEW: Cadogan looks to help wean Ukraine off Russian gas

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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Ben Aris in Moscow – November 13, 2013) Ukraine is finally trying to break its addiction to Russian gas and Cadogan Petroleum is one of those companies well placed to make that happen. A medium-sized independent oil and gas producer, Cadogan was responsible in 2011 for bringing Italian energy giant Eni into Ukraine to […]

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Interfax: More Russians think Kyiv growing apart from Moscow – poll

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MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax) – Ukraine is growing apart from Moscow and taking up with the European Union and the United States, Russians told Levada Center. Some 40% of the respondents insisted that the gap between Russia and Ukraine had been widening, Levada Center told Interfax on Tuesday. The opinion has become more pronounced. It was shared by 21% of […]

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Interfax: Ukraine PM: EU no longer says Tymoshenko “as pure as the driven snow”

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DONETSK, Ukraine. Nov 9 (Interfax) – According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, the European Union initially claimed that his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko was an innocent victim of political scheming but no longer does so and insists on clemency for her rather than on her acquittal. Azarov puts the EU’s alleged volte-face to the credit of European Parliament monitors […]

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