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05.03.2010, 19:13
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The atmosphere at Friday’s press conference with Medvedev and Yanukovich would have been hard to imagine with the Ukrainian’s predecessor, said RIA Novosti’s Dmitry Babich, but there is still cause for concern.
20.11.2009, 15:15
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Russia and Ukraine have reached an agreement on gas deals, which may mean that last year’s gas crisis in Europe will not be repeated.
26.03.2010, 13:00
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Russia seems unlikely to significantly lower the price Ukraine has to pay for gas as the Ukrainian Prime Minister held talks with Gazprom and Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
22.05.2009, 17:42
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The disagreement between Ukraine’s President and Prime Minister hinders Kiev’s ability to negotiate disputed points in energy cooperation, says Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
23.10.2009, 14:08
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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister is in Moscow seeking to reset relations after a period of high tension between Moscow and Kiev. The two sides agreed to depoliticize points of conflict.
24.06.2010, 09:15
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Russia has restored gas supplies to Belarus after the country paid its debts. However, the conflict is still not over with Minsk still threatening to cut transit of supplies to Europe over Gazprom’s debt.
27.04.2010, 20:13
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich claimed on Tuesday that the notorious famine during the 1930s in Ukraine was not genocide.
12.04.2009, 02:14
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The sleaze war between Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko has been focusing its attention on the issue of the primarily Russian-inhabited and speaking Crimean peninsula.
24.05.2010, 16:07
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Closing in for the kill, Russia is said to be in final talks to buy a flotilla of four French helicopter-carriers - a deal massive both in terms of the vessels' size and their price tag.
11.08.2009, 11:58
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Though President Yushchenko says he has nothing against Russia, his actions are completely contrary – so the dialogue with him cannot be productive, says Dmitry Babich, a political analyst from RIA Novosti news agency.
Published: 04 November, 2009, 22:51
Edited: 22 November, 2009, 12:04
Ukraine’s energy holding, Naftogaz, has said there are some problems with payments for Russian natural gas supplied in October.
With the start of the heating season, Ukraine is once again in the world news over its payments for Russian gas and possibility of a new gas war. Meanwhile Russia is actively courting Yulia Tymoshenko as the lesser of two evils in the Ukrainian presidential elections scheduled for January 2010: witness the Putin-Tymoshenko press conference in Livadia two days ago. However, the 'braided lady' was not always on such friendly terms with Moscow. Indeed, in the spring of 2007 she did the bidding of George W. Bush in calling for containment of Russia. See http://usforeignpolicy.lalibreblogs.be/archive/2009/11/09/the-strange-case-of-yulia-tymoshenko-s-2007-article-in-forei.html