YELTSIN AIDE THREATENS UKRAINE WITH RETALIATION.
Yeltsin foreignpolicy advisor Dmitri Ryurikov charged in the May 23 Kievskie vedomosti that"the Ukrainian government intends to form its relations with Russia on anegative basis,... MORE
UKRAINE, BALTS LOOK WEST.
Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma andLatvian president Guntis Ulmanis said that they believed that threats andpressures from a certain "bordering state" were prompting ever more countriesto... MORE
EUROPEAN UNION HOLDS UKRAINE ON SHORT LEASH.
The European Union said it wouldgive Kiev $108 million now, and $254 million later, to help the Ukrainiangovernment cover its deficit and thus to stabilize... MORE
CRIMEAN TATARS BACK UKRAINE.
At a demonstration in Simferopol on theanniversary of their deportation by Stalin, thousands of Crimean Tatars carriedsigns and banners blaming Moscow for their current problems... MORE
CAN MOSCOW GET TOUGH WITH UKRAINE?
President Yeltsin's warning to Kiev May17 that Ukraine would pay a price for turning toward the West, and away fromRussia, may be a threat that... MORE
YELTSIN TURNS TO UKRAINE.
Boris Yeltsin told his senior cabinet members that"today, there is one issue--how our relationship with Ukraine will develop,"NTV reported May 16. The Russian president said... MORE
UKRAINE, RUSSIA COMPETE TO SELL TANKS.
Ukrainian and Russian firms went headto head at the Abu Dhabi arms show, Trud reported May 11. Kiev offered thegas turbine-driven T-84, while Moscow demonstrated... MORE
UKRAINE WILL PAY GAZPROM WITH STATE BONDS.
Gazprom spokesmen told Moscow television May 10 that Ukraine will pay its bills to the Russian energy concern by issuing new state bonds. This step--announced... MORE
UKRAINE SEEN JOINING COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN 1995.
The chairman of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly said in Kiev that Ukraine would almost certainly become a member of the Council this fall,... MORE
MERI BACKS UKRAINE, MOLDOVA FOR COUNCIL OF EUROPE.
In a speech to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly April 15, Estonian President Lennart Meri said that Ukraine and Moldova should soon be able... MORE