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What options the new President of Ukraine has?

May 27, 2014 by George Pepper Leave a Comment

Petro Poroshenko, the new Ukrainian President elect, is one of the wealthiest men of his country, but he is not an oligarch in the sense that he hasn’t made his fortune by getting government contracts and concessions. He actually is the only exception to the rule, that all business tycoons of this badly governed state, […]

Filed Under: EUGlobe, Policy, Politics, Russia Tagged With: Donetsk, EU, Kiev, Lavrov, Poroshenko, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, US

The West and Russia took what they wanted from Ukraine

April 18, 2014 by Maria Milouv Leave a Comment

Yesterday, in Geneva the representatives of the EU, the US and Russia did on Ukraine what the European Sting said they were about to do; partition the poor country. By the way, the Ukrainian ‘Foreign Minister’ Andriy Deshchytsia was around, while the three were negotiating about the future and the actual existence of his country, […]

Filed Under: EUGlobe, Policy, Russia, USA Tagged With: Aston, Crimea, European Union, Kerry, Kiev, Lavrov, Ukraine, Washington

EU-Russia summit in the shadows of Kiev’s fumes

January 25, 2014 by George Pepper Leave a Comment

In the shadows of fume of the protest fires in Kiev’s Independence Square, the 32nd EU-Russia summit is expected to take place in Brussels this Tuesday. It will end with a working lunch, without an official dinner being held. The EU side dropped it as an indication of deep concern about Moscow’s role in Ukraine. […]