Ukraine

Below is part of an interesting interview with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev from the current English language version of "Der Spiegel" SPIEGEL:...In accordance with your instructions, there is currently no Russian ambassador in Ukraine, and you are regularly engaged in disputes with Belarus...

My last blog on president Yushchenko's national address on the flu epidemic has been placed in Taras Kuzio's 'Ukrainska Pravda' Blog - There's has been quite a number of comments, some mentioning the impracticality of the president possibly cancelling last Wednesday's European Champion's League...

Tonight president Yushchenko made a stutteringly delivered, alarmist, outrageous address to the nation in which he blames PM Tymoshenko, parliamentary leaders, and leaders of the opposition for inactivity when they were supposedly already aware of the flu epidemic taking a grip of the Western...

Reports in newspapers from Western Ukrainian, where the current epidemic is most serious, describe the near state of panic gripping the local population...

LEvko is astonished at the panic in Ukraine and the way over-the-top reaction from the government and politicians over the swine flu epidemic which has hit the country...

Russian 'Kommersant' newspaper includes an interview with Ukraine's new foreign minister, Petro Poroshenko, following his recent meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov...

Three lesser candidates standing for president in next January's election appeared in an interesting and lengthy 'Shuster Live' TV program last Friday. Representatives and spokesmen from the main condenders' political parties also took part...

President Yushchenko today blundered into the political fray surrounding the alleged current sex abuse scandal involving BYuT deputies. At a public meeting where the Prosecutor-General Oleksandr Ivanovych Medvedko was also present, he addressed the P.G...

Today's London 'Times' reports:"Tony Blair, the favourite to become Europe’s first president, is believed to have accepted tens of thousands of pounds from a steel billionaire [Viktor Pinchuk, no less] campaigning for Ukraine to join the European Union. ...

Below is a portion of an article on the proposed European Union Lisbon Treaty from Wednesday's today's London 'Times'...

Just over a week ago a story emerged supposedly casting doubt on president Yushchenko's 2004 election campaign poisoning. "Russia Today" picked it up and embellished it in their own article entitled: "Ukrainian president’s poisoning was falsified". ...

Results of a recent opinion poll conducted in the Kyiv oblast revealed over 63% of those questioned were most worried about inflation, over 54% worry about low pay and pensions, over 42%were worried about unemployment, and almost 40% were concerned by political instability in the country...

ProUA reports that president Yushchenko has accepted he will no longer be head of state in several months time...

I've just spent over two hours watching latest Savik Shuster program, on-line, here.It's rivetting stuff.The show was to include Yulia Tymoshenko being cross-examined by a battery of eminent journalists. She claimed during the programme that Viktor Yanukovych was to be there also...