Ukraine politics news

17/08/2008
Ukraine has agreed to take part in a missile defence system designed by the United States to protect Western countries. The government in Kiev defended its decision for military co-operation with the West, saying Russia cancelled a bilateral treaty with Ukraine earlier this year.
A few days ago, Poland and the United States reached agreement on the siting of missiles on Polish territory. These, together with radar installations in the Czech republic, make up the missile shield. Russia is fiercely opposed to the defence system and has threatened retaliatory measures.
The Ukrainian offer to co-operate with the US on the shield comes as the situation surrounding Russia's military operations in Georgia is increasingly tense. Ukraine's pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly criticised Russia and is threatening to impose restrictions on Russian navy vessels' use of the port of Sebastopol in Ukraine.

9/08/2008
Ukrainian special presidential envoy to Georgia Kostyantyn Yeliseyev has reaffirmed Kyiv's willingness to provide diplomatic assistance to have the armed hostilities in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone stopped and make Tbilisi and Tskhinvali engage in direct talks.
Yeliseyev made this statement while meeting with Georgian National Security Council Secretary Alexander Lomaya in Tbilisi, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported on Saturday.
Yeliseyev and Lomaya discussed the military-political and humanitarian situation in the region.
Lomaya said Yeliseyev was the first foreign high-ranking official to come to Georgia after the beginning of military actions in South Ossetia, which displays "the Ukrainian president's active foreign political position and Ukraine's desire to promptly respond to challenges to security in the region."

5/08/2008
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has taken steps to permanently block supplies of Caspian oil via Ukraine’s Odessa-Brody pipeline to the European Union, a top official at President Viktor Yushchenko’s office said.
Maryna Stavniychuk, a deputy chief of staff at the Yushchenko office, said Tymoshenko loyalists filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court seeking to block Yushchenko’s order starting Caspian oil supplies.
“According to my information, the appeal has been submitted by Tymoshenko lawmakers,” Stavniychuk said at a press conference.

25/07/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said his close ally David Zhvania was involved in his poisoning.
“I think yes, he is involved. Yes is a mild wording,” Yushchenko said at a news conference on Thursday.
Zhvania is a businessman and member of parliament who was elected from the pro-president bloc Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense”.
He was present at a supper in September of 2004, at which Yushenko, who then was running for president, could be presumably poisoned with dioxin.
The Ukrainian president said that the case is being investigated “very actively and professionally”.
“Associates of the prosecutor’s office are working day and night. When the investigation is over, Ukraine’s citizens will know many surprising things, among which there will be very unpleasant facts. I shall not divulge this information so far, as this in competence of the prosecutor’s office,” Yushchenko said.

9/07/2008
The Yulia Timoshenko Bloc (YTB) again blocked the Ukrainian parliament. Verkhovna Rada leader Arseny Yatsenyuk opened the sitting in encirclement of YTB members, but immediately announced a break. He said the parliament’s meetings would be resumed if consultations on changes to this year’s budget proved successful.
Parliamentarians are trying to reach a consensus on the budget for the third straight day. The YTB faction insists on the adoption of the changes to the budget, while the opposition demands a report of the government on its activity.
Friday is the last day of the parliament’s work before a summer recess that is continue until September.
However, President Viktor Yushchenko warned the deputies on Wednesday that the parliament does not have the right to go on the recess without approving changes to the national budget.
If the Verkhovna Rada does not find a compromise by Friday, it must continue work during the recess time, the president said.
At the same time, Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko voiced confidence that the parliamentarians would pass changes to the budget in order the government could increase pensions and wages of state employees.

1/07/2008
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko watched the concert program performed by the Ukrainian artists. Following the concert, a miniature of the Taras Shevchenko’s monument erected in Baku was presented to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the Philharmonic’s Hall. Author of the monument, the Ukrainian sculptor Igor Grechanik said presenting the miniature of the freedom fighter Taras Shevchenko’s monument to the President of Azerbaijan had a symbolic character. The head of state called the opening of the Taras Shevchenko’s monument in Baku as a remarkable event and congratulated its author for the successful work. With this the Ukrainian president ended his one-day working visit to Azerbaijan.

26/06/2008
“The meeting of the Political Committee of PACE (Parliamentary Committee of the Council of Europe) approved a rapporteur to investigate the Holodomor (famine-genocide) as totalitarian regime’s crime in Ukraine and other territory of the Soviet Union. The rapporteur is Vice-President of PACE Alexandеr Biberaj (Albania),” said Olga Gerasimuk, Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s standing delegation to PACE, people’s MP from the ‘Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defence’ parliamentary group (NU-NS).

2/06/2008
Ukraine's Security and Defense Council on Friday ordered the government to rescind a decision to break off an energy exploration and extraction contract in the Black Sea with U.S. firm Vanco Energy. The decision of the council, headed by President Viktor Yushchenko, is binding under Ukraine's constitution. "The government is obliged to rescind its decision to break off the agreement in unilateral fashion," Ukrainian Council Secretary Raisa Bogatyryova told journalists.
The United States criticized the government's move, saying Ukraine needed to "respect the sanctity of contracts and the rule of law" in order to attract investors. Tymoshenko had said Vanco broke a number of rules and conditions of the agreement and voiced her concern that the firm was willing to sell the license to large energy multinationals, such as Gazprom.

13/05/2008
Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko does not see any alternative to the democratic coalition, but vows to undertake rather tough actions in future.
Yulia Tymoshenko noted that she had not made any step that would cast doubt upon her desire to have a democratic coalition in Ukraine.
“For four months I have not been answering to any attacks, any humiliations, any restrictions. For four months I believed that the democratic coalition would work”, she said, adding that “as of today, there is no alternative to a democratic coalition”.

5/05/2008
In the latest battle over the State Property Fund, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday sought to eliminate President Viktor Yushchenko’s control over the special security agency guarding all government offices.
At least 50 lawmakers from the Tymoshenko group filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court insisting that operation of the agency, the State Guard Department, has been illegal, Andriy Portnov, a Tymoshenko lawmaker, said.

1/05/2008
Ukraine faces an uphill battle in its efforts to join NATO, with objections from Russia and about half of its population opposed to membership in the Western alliance.
Ukrainian officials are confident that their nation will eventually join NATO, despite Russian objections that kept it from being invited into the Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the alliance's recent summit in Bucharest, Romania.
"Ukraine is the only nonmember country that is engaged in all NATO operations," said former Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk.

19/04/2008
The pro-president Our Ukraine Party demanded that the coalition partner – the Yulia Timoshenko bloc – should stop vitriolic attacks on the head of state”, says a statement, circulated by the party presidium.
Pointing to Viktor Yushchenko’s services in holding the early elections to the legislature, his efforts to form a democratic coalition and the government with Timoshenko at the head, the presidium of the Our Ukraine Party called on the Timoshenko bloc “to play down emotions and to concentrate on effective work for the sake of Ukrainian people”.
The leadership of the pro-presidential party promised to take every effort “to ensure unity of the democratic coalition”.

15/04/2008
President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko does not rule out that the new edition of the Constitution may stipulate a two-chamber parliament.
The President claimed this, speaking at the conference devoted to the struggle against corruption.
In particular, according to the President, the two-chamber parliament must include representatives of territories. Victor Yushchenko added the everybody has been speaking about consolidation of Ukraine, but the existing system cannot provide that.

31/03/2008
Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko will visit Azerbaijan in the second half of April. Yulia Tymoshenko’s visit to Azerbaijan has been delayed in connection with her official visit to Poland.
Several documents on economic cooperation will be signed between Azerbaijan and Ukraine. “White stream” project will be one of the main themes of Yulia Tymoshenko’s discussions in Baku.

29/03/2008
Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko grateful to Polish Gov't.
Responding the journalists’ questions in the course of a joint press conference of the two prime ministers as regards prospects of joining Ukraine to Membership Action Plan Yulia Tymoshenko stressed the stance of Ukraine’s officials in this issue is clearly worded in the letter addressed to the NATO Secretary General while decision on it will be adopted during April summit in Bucharest.
Yulia Tymoshenko expressed her personal gratitude to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland Donald Tusk for the support of Ukraine in the negotiation process with NATO and for his efforts directed towards the decision concerning Ukraine to be positive.
In his turn Donald Tusk aired that “Poland has always supported and now and in future will advance attempts of Ukraine to join NATO Membership Action Plan”.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland is convinced that despite the complexity of this issue “Ukraine will accrue its ambition in Bucharest”.

25/03/2008
President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko claims that Ukraine’s joining NATO does not jeopardize its neighbor countries, as well as the countries, with which Ukraine maintains friendly relations.
“I would like to state as the President to Ukraine’s neighbors: after Ukraine joins NATO, no new risks will appear for the countries, with which we maintain relations, for our neighbor countries”, the President stressed.
V.Yushchenko pointed out that, as of today, the question of Ukraine’s joining NATO has not been raised at all. Only Ukraine’s joining NATO Membership Action Plan is on agenda, he said. “The choice will be made in years”, the President stressed.

19/03/2008
The early election of the Kiev mayor and deputies of the City Council authorized by the Verkhovna Rada is illegal, the Kiev administration said.
“Today’s vote [at the Verkhovna Rada] was unconstitutional because they had no material evidence or criminal cases in its support,” Deputy Mayor Irena Kilchitskaya said. “This vote shows that Kiev is a political arena, and the struggle for Kiev is the beginning of the struggle for presidency.”
“Kiev authorities are fully prepared for the early mayoral election,” she said. “Leonid Chernovetsky will win the election again.”
The Party of Regions’ deputies at the Kiev City Council share this opinion. “Incumbent Mayor Chernovetsky will win the early mayoral election in Kiev,” deputy Alexander Bogatyryov said. “There is an impression that deputies, who supported the early vote, either had no knowledge of the situation or did not analyze it.”

13/03/2008
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko has suspended Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky from office for a period of fifteen days, during which an in-house investigation will be done over the man’s alleged failure to perform occupational duties.
Chernovetsky is also charged with encroachments on the Constitution, non-fulfillment of Ukraine’s laws and acts issued by the President and government.
All these occupational misdemeanors have reportedly been registered by the cabinet of ministers.
Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunik has been appointed chairman of a special investigative committee.

5/03/2008
Following Polish FM Radoslav Sikorski March 4 statement that Poland will implement easy travel arrangements for Ukrainians living in near-border areas was criticized by them as they say they won’t be able to spend the upcoming Easter holidays with their relatives in Poland. Now the residents of Ukraine’s several border areas demand the Ukrainian government to speed up the implementation of the agreement on easy travel.
Ukraine’s FM Volodymyr Ohryzko and Polish FM Radoslav Sikorski ratified an agreement between both countries on easy travel for residents of Ukraine’s border regions.
Volodymyr Ohryzko said the agreement will be the first step on the way of forming a free travel zone between Ukraine and Poland. The Euro-2012 football tournament is an important landmark on this way, he said.

21/02/2008
The visit of Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yuliya Tymoshenko, to Moscow on February 20-21 was made against a background of deterioration of her relations with President Viktor Yushchenko. Of course, Ukraine’s relations with Russia are an independent aspect of Ukraine’s foreign policy. At the same time, they emphasize the peculiarities of the relations between the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine.
In the current situation it is Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of Regions, who loses. For example, the consultations of the big business, which represents Ukraine’s eastern regions, with the President are bad for Yanukovych. Yushchenko’s attempts to get more popular in Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions by means of the slogan of Ukraine’s unity also undermine Yanukovych’s position. Yushchenko will be able to become more popular, but Tymoshenko’s supporters are unlikely to come over to Yushchenko’s side.

9/02/2008
Fitch Ratings said the robust institutional frameworks of Ukrainian subnationals are underpinned by a local self-governance system, clear assignment of revenue allocation and expenditure responsibilities among tiers of government and stable budgetary framework.
In a special report entitled "Institutional Framework For Ukrainian Subnationals", the ratings agency said that over the long-term greater institutional framework stability will improve budget performance and hence increase the creditworthiness of Ukrainian local and regional governments.
But Fitch said the recent political uncertainty at the national level has hit the budgetary process of subnational governments.

5/02/2008
President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko vows that Ukraine will not obstruct Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
He said this, speaking at the WTO General Council session in Geneva on Tuesday.
The Ukrainian President expressed a belief that all countries, including post-Soviet ones, must form their relations basing on the WTO regulations.
“Ukraine will never support introducing unjustified and artificial complications into the negotiations on WTO accession of other countries. We absolutely support Russia’s joining WTO. Ukraine will apply maximal forces for Russia to join WTO as soon as possible”, he said.

31/01/2008
The nepotism of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine political clan reached new depths when Viktor Yushchenko named his oldest daughter Vitalina to lead the “Warm a Child With Love” charity. Just what a 26-year-old knows about running a multi-million-dollar charity and dealing with Ukraine’s most powerful (and in some cases, corrupt) businessmen is beyond most people.
Our Ukraine presents itself as a political force that best exemplifies European values. Certainly, nepotism permeates all societies to some degree. But among the pillars of modern Western civilization is the notion that the most qualified woman or man gets the job, regardless of family, ethnicity or race.
If Ukraine is to prove itself a European culture, its leader should abandon their Byzantine traditions and recognize the value in appointing people based on their skills and talents, not bloodlines. A competitive application process for positions such as Vitalina’s would be a good start. 1/02/2008

13/01/2008
Ukraine's foreign minister said that the government wants to start talks to prepare the withdrawal of a Russia naval base from Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement in 1997 stipulating that the Black Sea Fleet's main base in Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula, be leased to Russia for 20 years, with the possibility of extending the term. But Kiev has been pushing for the withdrawal of the base by 2017, in compliance with a previous bilateral agreement. 15/01/2008

19/12/2007
President Victor Yushchenko sent his graters to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Cabinet of Ministers members on the occasion of their appointment.
“Your professionalism and broad experience are highly appreciated in our state. May your knowledge and efforts serve to welfare of Ukrainian nation, building of modern democratic state and implementation of highest European standards into every living field”, - President wrote. 21/12/2007

7/09/2007
Six parties and bloc have real chances to penetrate into the parliament of Ukraine at the early election on 30 September: the Party of Regions (some 31.1%), BYuT (some 22%), Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense (12%), SPU (5.1%), Lytvyn’s Bloc (4.3%), and CPU (3.6%). These are the results of a poll, carried out by the Institute for Political and Sociological Studies named after T.Shevchenko. The poll results were publicized by Institute chief Volodymyr Bondarenko.

2/08/2007
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Kostenko met with Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Ukraine Amangeldy Zhumabayev.
The parties discussed development of relations between Ukraine and the Republic of Kazakhstan, particularly, holding of the Year of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Ukraine in 2007 and preparation for holding of the Year of Ukraine in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2008.
During the meeting, forwarding Ukrainian observers to the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan that will take place on August 18 was discussed as well. 4/08/2007

30/07/2007
The speaker of Ukraine’s parliament recalled lawmakers yesterday for an extraordinary session of parliament on July 31, two months before the country holds a general election. News agencies reported that Speaker Oleksander Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party allied to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, had convened the session to review regulations governing the September 30 vote. Yanukovich, leader of the Party of Regions based in Ukraine’s Russian-speaking east, has been at loggerheads with pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko for much of this year and a deal to go to the polls was meant to break the impasse.

3/06/2007
Ukraine's parliament on Friday passed a package of legislation needed to stage an early election to the chamber in September intended to end the ex-Soviet state's long-running political crisis.
The assembly completed its approval of the legislation a little more than an hour before the latest of three deadlines set by President Viktor Yushchenko.
Yushchenko dissolved parliament in April and ordered the new election, but the date was only set after considerable wrangling culminated in a deal this week with his arch rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.

12/05/2007
Ukraine's working group agrees on bills for snap polls.
A working group set up to resolve a political standoff in Ukraine has agreed on a preliminary package of amendments required to hold early parliamentary elections, a senior government official said.
"The drafted laws have been endorsed by all political parties and representatives of both the president and prime minister," Mykola Azarov, the first deputy prime minister, said after a meeting with President Viktor Yushchenko.
The two people at the core of the six-week political wrangling, Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, stroke a deal May 4 to hold parliamentary early elections but the date of the polls still remains to be decided. 14/05/2007

1/05/2007
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko today sacked a second Constitutional Court judge in as many days. Yushchenko's office says the president dismissed court Deputy Chairwoman and Justice Syuzanna Stanyk, whom Yushchenko had previously accused of corruption. The parliament majority, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, is criticizing the dismissals as unconstitutional.

18/04/2007
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has begun hearings in the capital, Kyiv, on the legality of President Viktor Yushchenko's decree, dissolving parliament and calling new elections. The court is taking up the case one week later than planned, after several judges asked for protection, alleging that political pressure was being exerted against them. All eyes and hopes are now on the court, which could deliver a ruling at any time in the next 30 days.

12/04/2007
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych fears that the opposition may come to power after early elections of the Verkhovna Rada. He announced this when holding a speech during a demonstration in Kyiv. "And what would the new elections bring forth? The new elections would be a repeat of those of 2004, when those people, who came to power in 2005, would again occupy chairs and cozy offices," said Yanukovych. Yanukovych noted that those people showed their inability to develop the country. As earlier Yuschenko dismissed the Verkhovna Rada and scheduled early parliamentary elections for May 27. The Verkhovna Rada refused to fulfill the presidential decree and appealed at the Constitutional Court to check constitutionality of the decree.

4/04/2007
Thousands of the prime minister's supporters streamed into the Ukrainian capital Tuesday to protest the president's order to dissolve parliament and call early elections, ending a shaky political truce with his chief rival. The decision created the most serious political crisis here since the 2004 Orange Revolution. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's supporters expanded a tent camp outside the parliament, while those of President Viktor Yushchenko announced plans to set up a stage in Independence Square - echoes of the mass protests more than two years ago that helped to propel the pro-western Yushchenko to the presidency. Yushchenko called for new elections after 11 of his supporters in parliament defected to Yanukovych's coalition last month. The president claims that Yanukovych used illegal means to recruit them, and that they threw their support to the prime minister in violation of the Constitution, which says only factions, not individual lawmakers, can change sides.

2/04/2007
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych rallied thousands of supporters in the capital Kyiv in a bid to make Ukraine's president back down from his threat to dissolve parliament and call new elections. Yushchenko accused the prime minister of violating the Constitution by poaching lawmakers from pro-presidential factions to expand his power base. He challenged Yanukovych to join him in appealing to the Constitutional Court to uphold a law that prevents lawmakers from switching parties once in office. Yanukovych did not respond publicly to the challenge, but said that he talked with Yushchenko and the president was seeking a resolution to the crisis. The simmering conflict burst into the open anew after numerous lawmakers from Yushchenko's party defected to join Yanukovych's parliamentary majority, giving it 260 votes in the 450-seat parliament. Yanukovych's party has suggested it could soon reach 300 - enough to override presidential vetoes and make Yushchenko politically powerless.

10/03/2007
Moscow has urged Kiev to stop litigation over the lighthouses the Russian Fleet is renting in Ukraine's Black Sea autonomy, a diplomatic spokesman said. The presence of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine's Crimea has been a source of contention between the ex-Soviet neighbors since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Under agreements signed in the 1990s, the Russian fleet is to continue renting a base in Ukraine until 2017.

26/02/2007
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and head of Our Ukraine, Viktor Baloga, signed an agreement to form an opposition alliance in parliament. The agreement is a strategic document which outlines principles for the two parties when they are in opposition or when they become parliamentary majority in the future, said Tymoshenko, quoted by Ukrainian National Information Agency. The agreement also laid out rules for joint action by the two parties in parliament. Under the agreement, a 12-member coordination committee will be formed as the leadership of the opposition bloc.

24/02/2007
During a visit to Sevastopol Luzhkov promised support for ethnic Russians in Crimea and thanked the region for opposing Ukraine's efforts to cooperate with NATO. Luzhkov also decried Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's turning over of Crimea -- where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is located -- to Ukraine in 1954. Ukrainian officials accused Luzhkov of questioning Crimea's status as part of Ukraine. Speaking at a joint press conference with acting Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko, Nalyvaichenko said Luzhkov could face a warning, a ban on entering the country, or more serious criminal penalties.

14/02/2007
The Georgian government is considering replacing Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zones in the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Ukrainian contingents, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili told Georgia's television stations in Vienna. The Georgian authorities are prepared to insist at all levels, including within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

10/02/2007
Russia's refusal to admit a member of Ukraine's pro-presidential faction into the country last week was a response to Kiev's bans on certain Russian politicians. Relations between Russia and Ukraine became tense after the "orange revolution", which brought Western-leaning President Viktor Yushchenko to power. The two nations also became embroiled in an energy dispute at the beginning of last year after Moscow, which supported Yushchenko's rival Viktor Yanukovych in the 2004 presidential race, raised gas prices for its former ally.

5/02/2007
In Ukraine 2007 has been proclaimed the Year of Kazakhstan, in Kazakhstan 2008 will be the Year of Ukraine. The visit of the President of Kazakhstan to Kiev lasted for two days. N. Nazarbayev and Victor Yushchenko held negotiations and signed a number of bilateral documents. The Presidents took part in Kazakh-Ukrainian business forum. N. Nazarbayev visited the Supreme Rada of Ukraine and met the Chairman of the upper chamber of the Parliament Alexander Moroz. The President discussed the questions of strengthening of trade and economic relations of two countries with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich.

28/01/2007
Igor Smeshko, former Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), stated in an interview, that investigation of the case about poisoning of the current President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, on September 5, 2004, at a summer residence of ex-Deputy Chairman of the SBU, Vladimir Satsyuk, has appeared deadlocked.

23/01/2007
The Czech Republic supports Ukraine’s ambitions to integrate into European structures, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg said after a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Borys Tarasyuk on Jan. 15 in Prague. The two ministers signed a joint declaration that their countries should cooperate in areas of foreign policy, agriculture and nuclear safety.

15/01/2007
The last Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko - in Israel for negotiations with state leader.
Tymoshenko is expected to meet with Chairman Likud and the last Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Vice Premier and elder statesman Shimon Peres and Yisrael Beitenu Chairman and Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman during her visit.
She has visited the memorial museum of the Catastrophe Yad Vashem earlier for day. 16/01/2007

4/01/2007
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is run away decision CEC in referendum in Ukrainian entering on NATO and the Common Economic Area must be executed. The independent condition-starts the body aerated its decision and we all must follow this, Prime Minister noted then, commenting on recognition CEC's signatures to support holding referendum. According to Region's Party's press service, Viktor Yanukovych noted that society will get ready take the important decisions and, with this view, time to keep the event ever thematic.

20/12/2006
Russian President Vladimir Putin will go on a working visit to Ukraine on December 22, 2006, the Russian leader's press officer reported today. The visit's agenda includes the first meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission, co-chaired by the two presidents.

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