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Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
Russian energy giant Gazprom could charge Ukraine nearly $8 billion in fines for failing to consume the contract-stipulated amounts of natural gas, President Viktor Yushchenko said Sunday.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that his "Russophobe" Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko was the sole reason for the decline in relations between the two countries. Everything Yushchenko had done in recent years had worked to damage traditional links between Russia and Ukraine, Medvedev said. "We have a very difficult relationship with Ukraine, but this is not a...
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France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ukraine has paid Russia for October gas supplies, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Friday, after her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had warned against late payment. "Today we've paid Russia the next 500 million dollars (336 million euros)," Tymoshenko said during a visit to the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Late last week, Putin said Ukraine appeared to be struggling to...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has called upon Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko to avert any delays in his country’s payment for Russian gas supplies. Barroso’s warning aimed at preventing a new gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine like the one in January 2009 comes a day after the Ukrainian state company Naftogaz said it was facing financial difficulties....
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Ukraine made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling swine flu on Sunday, after 60 people died from respiratory problems in a week. President Viktor Yushchenko wrote to the United States, the European Union, NATO and Ukraine's neighbours to ask for drugs and equipment to fight the spread of the A(H1N1) virus, according to a statement released by his office. "The threat weighing on...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Kiev - The death toll from a swine flu outbreak in Ukraine has risen to nearly 50, President Viktor Yushchenko announced Saturday, having put the number of dead at only 11 the day before. Quoted by the Interfax news agency, Yushchenko said the epidem...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Ukraine could again have difficulty paying for Russian natural gas, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday, triggering speculation of a new gas crisis might between the two former Soviet neighbors. "It seems we are again seeing problems with the payment of our energy supplies (from Ukraine)," Putin said after a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko....
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Ukraine's Central Election Commission on Thursday registered incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko as a candidate for presidential elections scheduled for early next year in the ex-Soviet republic.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Kiev - The one thing Ukrainian politicians and voters alike agree on these days is that Viktor Yushchenko, the once-popular pro- democracy leader, has next to no chance of winning a second term in the January presidential elections. Today, after year...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Ukraine's Central Election Commission on Thursday registered incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko as a candidate for presidential elections scheduled for early next year in the ex-Soviet republic.
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
President Viktor Yushchenko filed on Tuesday the documents to register as a candidate in Ukraine's upcoming presidential election.
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
President Viktor Yushchenko filed on Tuesday the documents to register as a candidate in Ukraine's upcoming presidential election.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday challenged his government's Euro 2012 spending plan, saying financing legislation recently approved by parliament to pay for the event was unconstitutional. A brief sent by Yushchenko to the Ukra...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
As Ukraine prepares for its first presidential election since the Orange Revolution, there are signs that its giant neighbour to the east will not tolerate a pro-western outcome. Luke Harding reports from Yalta From the terrace there are views of the Crimean peninsula, with fir trees, dark green cypresses and a shimmering bay. Inside – through a pleasant Italian courtyard – is the room...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko won a rare legislative victory on Friday, with a parliament majority approving his nomination of a long-time ally to head the country's Foreign Ministry. Petro Poroshenko, a former national security counci...