foreign notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
An interesting interview with Viktor Yanukovych in the current "Russian Newsweek" I've translated some portions below: Are you for Ukraine being included into the European Union? At the first congress of PoR in 1997 we decided that integration into Europe would be the main objective of our program. For eleven years we not only have not changed this position, but are even more convinced...
Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Situations Modeling Agency’s director Vitalii Bala, if they try to nominate Pliusch for the post of the Ukrainian speaker, the conflict inside the Our Ukraine People's Self-Defense Bloc faction will toughen showing the deputies’ distrust in the actions of President Viktor Yuschenko.
Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
... said Wednesday that Kiev is satisfied with NATO's decision.Oppositional pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych, who heads the Party of Regions, said NATO's refusal to take Ukraine into MAP means that NATO members respect the Ukrainian people's opinion.Nationwide surveys have found that over half of the country's citizens are against Ukraine joining the alliance, while about a third...
Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | yesterday
... said. He denied reports claiming that Tymoshenko met with the Party of the Regions’ leader Viktor Yanukovych. Turchynov stressed that the position of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc on election of the speaker of the parliament remains unchanged. «A speaker cannot be elected without a coalition. There is only one way out: a) a coalition; b) a speaker of the parliament; c) working together...
Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... to say whether the Communist Party would support the candidacy of the Party of the Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovych if he was nominated for the post of Parliament Speaker. He stressed that Yanukovych's candidacy has not been submitted to the parliament for consideration. As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Deputy Parliament Speaker Mykola Tomenko, who is one of the leaders...
