MOSCOW THREATENS, SLOVENIAN CHAIR DITHERS, UKRAINE RALLIES AT OSCE
Addressing the 2005 inaugural session of the OSCE Permanent Council on January 13, Russia openly threatened to sink the organization unless it accepts Russian-prescribed "reforms."... MORE
UKRAINE HAS DONE ITS DUTY IN IRAQ
On January 11-12, the U.S. State Department added an unnecessary complication to Ukrainian President-elect Viktor Yushchenko's internal political challenges. Questioning Ukraine's political decision to withdraw... MORE
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO DECLARED UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT
On January 10, Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC) officially declared opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko to be Ukraine's third president. The final vote count stood at... MORE
ASTANA WORKS TO STAVE OFF UKRAINE’S ADVANCING ORANGE TIDE
Days before New Year 2005 began, leaders of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, and Ak Zhol Democratic Party paid a visit... MORE
RESENTMENT STILL SMOLDERS IN MOSCOW AFTER UKRAINE ELECTIONS
Just as President-elect Viktor Yushchenko predicted, Supreme Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn chose Moscow as the destination of his first visit abroad after Ukraine's presidential election.... MORE
MASSIVE PRICE HIKE FOR TURKMEN GAS TO UKRAINE
Rising world prices for oil and gas, and to a lesser extent for metal products, as well as the dollar's fall, have enabled Turkmenistan to... MORE
POLITICAL REALIGNMENT BEGINS IN UKRAINE
The ruling centrist and oligarchic elites that supported President Leonid Kuchma over the last decade are now rushing to adapt to the reality that Viktor... MORE
AFTER UKRAINE DEBACLE, KREMLIN STRATEGISTS WARN OF SERIOUS RIFT WITH THE WEST
Some Western commentators have already called 2004 Russian President Vladimir Putin's annus horribilis. This year has seen the Kremlin's political failures in the Caucasus and... MORE
YUSHCHENKO VICTORY TO SPEED UP UKRAINE’S DEMOCRATIZATION AND EUROPEANIZATION
Ukraine is undergoing radical change in anticipation of a Yushchenko victory in the repeat presidential runoff on December 26. Challenger Viktor Yushchenko will have eight... MORE
“ORANGE REVOLUTION” EXPOSES EU’s DEFICIENT UKRAINE POLICY
One of the biggest ironies of Ukraine's democratic "Orange Revolution" is that it will cause difficulties in the European Union, an organization that claims to... MORE