Yushchenko expected to lose plans his departure and move to America

Yushchenko to transfer assets in the United States. It turns out that Viktor Yushchenko has already figured in the summer of their future. That’s when the American vice-president Joe Biden brought the news that Obama, unlike the previous administration, it has not seen the president of Ukraine. After that Yushchenko would not only put paid to the revival of “Our Ukraine” to create a campaign headquarters. He began to pack suitcases in the literal sense of the word.

Obama’s smart strategic move on target

U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a planned anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic on Sept. 17 was a bold gesture that may help improve relations between the United States and Russia. It will also have positive repercussions for European peace and security. Many Western European governments, which had been cool from the outset to a unilateral U.S. project they regarded as gratuitiously provocative towards Russia, greeted the American decision with relief.

Allies desert Yushchenko; new movements emerge

President lost control of his faction in parliament, a portentous development as more of his allies are fleeing his camp to back Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko

Yushchenko’s Son Spends $500,000 Dollars On His New Girlfriend

KIEV, Ukraine — Andrei Yushchenko, the son of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, has found himself in the middle of another scandal again. Ukrainians continue to discuss a very expensive taste of both the presidential son and his new girlfriend Elizaveta Efrosinina

Holodomor: Tragedy, Politics, and Memory

Let’s just get this one thing out in the open right away:

I hate the way both the Ukrainians and Russians have politicized Holodomor. On one hand, in Kiev, I walk past tacky posters proclaiming that “We are remembering/ The world is learning.” There’s even a little design on them – which looks suspiciously like fireworks (someone in some PR department has seriously messed up, in my opinion).

Nato allies divided over Ukraine and Georgia

Washington and several of its European allies were divided last night over how to respond to Georgia’s and Ukraine’s bids to join Nato and over whether to resume high-level Nato-Russia contacts frozen because of the Russian invasion of Georgia in August.

KYIV: Yanukovych: Ukrainian parliament negotiating possible govt reconfiguration

Political groups in the Ukrainian parliament are negotiating not only a candidate for speaker but also a possible reconfiguration of the government, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych told the media in Moscow on Thursday

U.S. hopes to soften Moscow missile stance

Officials in Moscow are considering new proposals received from Washington on the U.S. missile defence system in Eastern Europe. Discussions on these offerings, which include access for Russian monitors to the bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, are expected to take place in the next two weeks.

New York Times report questions Georgia’s role in Ossetian war

The New York Times has published an article which questions Georgia’s account of the conflict in South Ossetia in August this year. Based on the observations of OSCE monitors, it reports that Georgia was not acting defensively, but started the shelling of civilians in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinval.

Thousands demand Saakashvili resignation

Several thousand protesters have turned out in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi to voice their discontent with the current leadership and to demand early presidential and parliamentary elections. They picketed the national parliament and the presidential residence to commemorate the events of last year, when a similar rally was violently dispersed by police.