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IS YUSHCHENKO BACKTRACKING ON THE NOTORIOUS GAS DEAL?
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko finally has noticed the internal and international critique of the January 4 and February 2 gas deals with Moscow that he authorized and has been praising. Signaling a possible turnabout, Yushchenko's press service announced on February 14, "The President said that... MORE
UKRGASENERGO: A NEW RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN VENTURE TO DOMINATE UKRAINE’S GAS MARKET
A not-so-silent majority in Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, forces ranging from core Orange constituencies to the Party of Regions and groups as diverse as the liberal press and industrial interests, are waging rear-guard actions against the agreement signed on February 2 by Prime Minister Yuriy... MORE
…and Set Course of Action Against Denmark
The following day, the mujahid strategy emerged in even more detail. Under the title "What now after the Denmark events?—A Plan of Action," an individual named Abu Maria al-Qurashi set out nine specific action points: • Intensify the boycott by appealing to the idea of... MORE
Mujahideen Consider Cartoon Crisis a Moment to Re-Define Islam…
The Danish debacle continues to generate a deluge of material on the jihadi forums. While most of these (when not a matter of personal expressions of outrage and calls for revenge) relate to the growing boycott campaign of Danish goods, at least one "official" statement... MORE
RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN DELEGATION IN MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA SHORT-CIRCUITS THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS
In his state-of-the-nation address to parliament on February 9, President Viktor Yushchenko claimed for Ukraine the role of "regional leader," one "serv[ing] as the basis for integration processes in the region of Central and Eastern Europe." By way of substantiating that claim, Yushchenko went on,... MORE
GSPC in Italy: The Forward Base of Jihad in Europe
Italy has evolved from a logistics base for Islamic militants to a de facto base of operations for Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) targeting Italy, other European countries and the United States. While the GSPC continues to engage in and support terrorist... MORE
OUR UKRAINE, PARTY OF REGIONS LOOK FOR COALITION ALLIES, MAY FIND EACH OTHER
Just a year ago, the idea of a union between president-elect Viktor Yushchenko and his arch-rival Viktor Yanukovych, defeated and disgraced by vote-rigging accusations, would have been bizarre. But current realities make quite possible a coalition between Yushchenko's Our Ukraine and Yanukovych's Party of Regions... MORE
ENERGY DILEMMA FOR BELARUS
On January 24, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenka met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Constantine Palace near St Petersburg prior to a session of the Russian-Belarusian Supreme State Council. Lukashenka remarked that the integration process between the two states had taken on an irreversible... MORE
The Terrorist Threat to the Turin Olympic Games
After Rome's decision to take part in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Italy has been repeatedly threatened by Islamist terrorist networks. In an effort to single out the terrorists' most likely targets and to effectively organize counter-terrorist strategies and pre-emptive actions, analysts and senior Italian authorities have... MORE
MOSCOW, KYIV DISRUPTING NEGOTIATIONS ON TRANSNISTRIA
On January 26-27, negotiations on the Transnistria conflict in the enlarged format of 5+2 (Russia, Ukraine, OSCE, Moldova, and the Tiraspol authorities as full participants, plus the United States and European Union as observers) concluded the third failed round of talks in the three months... MORE