Ukraine
Moldova-Ukraine relations assessed as positive
February 04, 2012Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat had a meeting with the Ukrainian speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn. The counterparts reviewed the Moldovan-Ukrainian relations. The sides expressed the willingness of both states to further deepen cooperation ties and settle...
Economic crisis behind ‘winds of change’ in post-Soviet states
January 24, 2012The leaders of the post-Soviet state and in particular those who have successfully constructed “administered democracies” no longer fear “orange” revolutions, but they are being pushed toward “reforms” of one kind or...
Moldova wants to strengthen relations with its neighbor Ukraine
January 23, 2012Moldovan-Ukrainian co-operation was on the Moldovan premier’s agenda today. Prime-minister Vlad Filat had an official meeting with Mr. Serghei Pirojcov, the Ambassador of Ukraine in the Republic of Moldova. At the meeting the counterparts made...
Ukraine to re-establish relations between Chisinau and Tiraspol
January 21, 2012Ukraine wants a better approach between Chisinau and Tiraspol. Next week, in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, will take place an official meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Republic of Moldova and the Transnistrian side, informs the...
EU dilemma: Must Ukraine remain a no man’s land?
December 19, 2011By Michael Leigh/ GMF/ Brussels -- After reaching an agreement on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization on Thursday, European Union leaders are set to meet Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev today. Although the EU-Ukraine...
Moldova fails again to choose a new president
December 16, 2011Deutsche Welle/ Chisinau -- With Ukraine moving away from the EU, Moldova could become eastern Europe's new golden child. But the Moldovan parliament has failed once again to select a new president. Moldova's parliament failed to select a new president...
Ukraine is still searching for an identity
December 12, 2011By Olga Shumylo-Tapiola/ Carnegie/ Brussels -- Ukrainians had a number of reasons to celebrate this year. They commemorated the twentieth anniversary of their country’s independence—declared by parliament in August 1991—and its first...
Like Moldova, Ukraine wants both ways - free trade agreement with EU and CIS
November 03, 2011By Pavel Korduban/ Eurasia Daily Monitor/ Washington, DC -- Ukraine has signed a free trade agreement with the CIS and completed its free trade talks with the EU. Unlike membership of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan), which Moscow keeps...
East goes back towards authoritarianism, South goes left
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October 28, 2011By Michael Emerson/ Brussels / -- The most striking and indeed astonishing feature of this autumn’s political landscape in the European neighbourhood is the contradictory trend as between East and South. East Europe is reverting back towards authoritarianism...
Russia’s Putin Proposes a “Eurasian Union” — But it’s all about Gas
October 07, 2011By Alina Inayeh/ BUCHAREST -- In an article published on Tuesday in the Russian newspaper Izvestia, Russia’s prime minister and presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin announced his major foreign policy goal: the creation of a “Eurasian Union...