http://www.rferl.org/archive/Ukraine/latest/652/670.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Ukraine http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Ukraine/latest/652/670.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:43:38 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko says that Ukraine will support Georgia's territorial integrity and not recognize its breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Yushchenko_Says_Ukraine_Supports_Georgias_Territorial_Integrity/1884796.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Yushchenko_Says_Ukraine_Supports_Georgias_Territorial_Integrity/1884796.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:50 +0000 From Our Bureaus Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on November 19 that existing gas deals with Ukraine were a guarantee of stable energy supplies to Europe and he hoped for a New Year without any gas "shocks." http://www.rferl.org/content/Russias_Putin_Wants_New_Year_Without_Gas_Shocks/1883024.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russias_Putin_Wants_New_Year_Without_Gas_Shocks/1883024.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:37:35 +0000 News Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko today told Russia's Vladimir Putin that Ukraine would scrupulously fulfill its obligations on the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe. http://www.rferl.org/content/Tymoshenko_Pledges_To_Fulfill_Gas_Transit_Deal/1882873.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Tymoshenko_Pledges_To_Fulfill_Gas_Transit_Deal/1882873.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:44:16 +0000 News Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to change an agreement on supplies of Russian natural gas whose terms he said were too onerous for the Ukrainian economy. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_President_Asks_Kremlin_To_Amend_Gas_Agreement/1882108.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_President_Asks_Kremlin_To_Amend_Gas_Agreement/1882108.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:16:30 +0000 News Adam Michnik, the editor in chief of Poland's "Gazeta Wyborcza" and a leading member of the Polish democratic opposition from 1968 to 1989, was in Prague this week to attend a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. He spoke to Irina Lagunina of RFE/RL's Russian Service about Russia, the West, and the post-Soviet letdown felt in the former Eastern bloc countries. http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_After_Communisms_Fall_Polish_Dissident_Says_Life_Probably_Not_A_Paradise_But_Its_Not_Hell_Anymore/1877551.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_After_Communisms_Fall_Polish_Dissident_Says_Life_Probably_Not_A_Paradise_But_Its_Not_Hell_Anymore/1877551.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:58:06 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_After_Communisms_Fall_Polish_Dissident_Says_Life_Probably_Not_A_Paradise_But_Its_Not_Hell_Anymore/1877551.html#relatedInfoContainer The 18 candidates who have been registered for Ukraine's presidential election in January can be divided into three tiers. It's interesting to take a look at the domestic- and foreign-policy programs of the first- and second-tier candidates. The platforms reveal many similarities, particularly in the realm of populist social initiatives, while a few bear distinct hallmarks of Soviet nostalgia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraines_Presidential_Hopefuls_Lay_Out_Their_Programs/1877436.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraines_Presidential_Hopefuls_Lay_Out_Their_Programs/1877436.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:39 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraines_Presidential_Hopefuls_Lay_Out_Their_Programs/1877436.html#relatedInfoContainer The World Health Organization (WHO) says antiviral medicines like Tamiflu should be used much earlier by doctors in order to prevent deaths from swine flu. The UN agency also says it is sending more supplies of antivirals to developing countries most affected by swine flu. Those countries include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:01 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html#relatedInfoContainer Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer Fitch has cut Ukraine's credit rating and said a delay in IMF funding coupled with a huge budget gap would lead to more instability, a warning underscored by another state firm seeking to restructure its debts. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Credit_Rating_Sinks_State_Firm_Seeks_Debt_Help/1876413.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Credit_Rating_Sinks_State_Firm_Seeks_Debt_Help/1876413.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:03 +0000 News The rights watchdog Amnesty International is demanding that authorities in Ukraine "immediately and unconditionally" release Belarusian activist Ihar Koktysh. http://www.rferl.org/content/Amnesty_Urges_Ukraine_To_Release_Belarusian_Prisoner_Of_Conscience/1876213.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Amnesty_Urges_Ukraine_To_Release_Belarusian_Prisoner_Of_Conscience/1876213.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:01:47 +0000 Watchdog http://www.rferl.org/content/Amnesty_Urges_Ukraine_To_Release_Belarusian_Prisoner_Of_Conscience/1876213.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukraine's president and prime minister have hurled angry accusations at each other over ways of fighting an influenza epidemic, now a major factor in campaigning for a January election in which they are rivals. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_PM_Accuses_President_Over_Swine_Flu/1875509.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_PM_Accuses_President_Over_Swine_Flu/1875509.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:55 +0000 News Russia will cut natural-gas deliveries to Europe if Ukraine siphons off supplies crossing its territory, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said, in a warning that raises the specter of another gas dispute. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Warns_Ukraine_Not_To_Take_Transit_Gas/1875194.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Warns_Ukraine_Not_To_Take_Transit_Gas/1875194.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:06:10 +0000 News Registration for the Ukrainian presidential election has ended, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1875126.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1875126.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:13:43 +0000 From Our Bureaus The number of people in Ukraine who have died from flu and respiratory diseases has reached 174, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Reports_More_Flu_Deaths_Infections/1874816.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Reports_More_Flu_Deaths_Infections/1874816.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:13:13 +0000 From Our Bureaus As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said after meeting with a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation in Kyiv that the country's flu epidemic is stabilizing, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_Leaders_Say_Swine_Flu_Under_Control/1874122.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_Leaders_Say_Swine_Flu_Under_Control/1874122.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:01:32 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Ukrainian women's group, FEMEN, took to the streets of Kyiv on November 9 to protest what they see as swine-flu hysteria. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_Women_Protest_Flu_Panic_Wearing_Only_Surgical_Masks/1873921.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_Women_Protest_Flu_Panic_Wearing_Only_Surgical_Masks/1873921.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:51 +0000 Transmission Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko has dismissed the idea a January election should be delayed because of flu fears and appeared to accept there would be no more IMF funds forthcoming until after the vote. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_President_Sees_No_Reason_To_Delay_Vote_Over_Flu/1872925.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_President_Sees_No_Reason_To_Delay_Vote_Over_Flu/1872925.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:56:45 +0000 News Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is considering postponing the country's presidential election scheduled for January due to the spread of swine flu in the country. http://www.rferl.org/content/Official_Ukrainian_Election_May_Be_Postponed_Due_To_Swine_Flu/1871510.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Official_Ukrainian_Election_May_Be_Postponed_Due_To_Swine_Flu/1871510.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:17 +0000 News Ukraine has paid Russia for October gas supplies on time, despite European Union fears that bills would not be settled but the process had proved "extremely difficult," Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_PM_Says_Difficult_Russian_Bill_Settled/1871361.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_PM_Says_Difficult_Russian_Bill_Settled/1871361.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:32 +0000 News Ukraine has told the European Commission that it has 25 billion cubic meters of gas in storage, which should be enough to prevent disruptions to flows to Europe this winter, a spokesman has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Says_Has_Enough_Gas_For_Winter_Flows/1871083.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Says_Has_Enough_Gas_For_Winter_Flows/1871083.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:49:37 +0000 News Four more Ukrainians have been confirmed to have died of swine flu, with more than 70 other respiratory deaths still being investigated, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Death_Toll_Rises_In_Ukraine/1870018.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Death_Toll_Rises_In_Ukraine/1870018.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:06:59 +0000 From Our Bureaus As concerns over massive outbreaks of swine flu rise in many countries with the onset of the influenza season, doctors say much is misunderstood about how people contract the disease. We speak to experts to learn more, and whether there is any cause for panic. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:28:25 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html#relatedInfoContainer Not that we needed another reminder of the dismal state of Ukrainian politics, but an individual called Protyvsikh ("Against all" in Ukrainian) has registered as a candidate in the country's upcoming presidential election. http://www.rferl.org/content/Againstall_To_Run_For_Ukraines_Presidency__/1869505.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Againstall_To_Run_For_Ukraines_Presidency__/1869505.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:16:22 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/Againstall_To_Run_For_Ukraines_Presidency__/1869505.html#relatedInfoContainer Public fears of a major outbreak of swine flu are growing in countries from Ukraine to Afghanistan. The fears are fed by real cases of people falling ill with the flu. But what is not clear is how many of the cases are ordinary flu, and how many are swine flu, and whether fears of an imminent pandemic are justified. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Fears_Spread_From_Ukraine_to_Afghanistan/1869479.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Fears_Spread_From_Ukraine_to_Afghanistan/1869479.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:50:05 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Fears_Spread_From_Ukraine_to_Afghanistan/1869479.html#relatedInfoContainer A recent exchange of barbs between Russia and Ukraine is raising worries in Kyiv over a possible new natural-gas crisis this winter. Moscow's shutoff last winter left millions of Europeans without heat in the bitter cold, but observers say they doubt there will be a repeat this year. http://www.rferl.org/content/Experts_Downplay_Fears_Over_UkraineRussia_Gas_Crisis_/1869197.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Experts_Downplay_Fears_Over_UkraineRussia_Gas_Crisis_/1869197.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:45:24 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Experts_Downplay_Fears_Over_UkraineRussia_Gas_Crisis_/1869197.html#relatedInfoContainer Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called on the European Union to help neighboring Ukraine fight a swine-flu epidemic, saying its further spread is threatening the wider bloc. http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Must_Help_Ukraine_Fight_Swine_Flu_Poland_Says/1868458.html http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Must_Help_Ukraine_Fight_Swine_Flu_Poland_Says/1868458.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:27:59 +0000 News Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people in countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain have mixed feelings about the changes democracy and capitalism have brought to their lives. A new survey finds general satisfaction but also disappointment. http://www.rferl.org/content/Poll_Finds_Generational_Split_In_View_Of_Postcommunist_Reforms/1868199.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Poll_Finds_Generational_Split_In_View_Of_Postcommunist_Reforms/1868199.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:52:01 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Poll_Finds_Generational_Split_In_View_Of_Postcommunist_Reforms/1868199.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukrainian hospitals will start distributing Tamiflu among the population this week in an effort to help people who have the flu, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_Hospitals_To_Distribute_Tamiflu_For_Free/1867682.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_Hospitals_To_Distribute_Tamiflu_For_Free/1867682.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:01:27 +0000 From Our Bureaus Russia has warned EU President Sweden of possible disruption to natural gas supplies to European consumers because of problems with main transit nation Ukraine over energy payments, Interfax news agency reported. http://www.rferl.org/content/Putin_Warns_EU_Of_Possible_Gas_Disruption/1866795.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Putin_Warns_EU_Of_Possible_Gas_Disruption/1866795.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:06:29 +0000 News The Interfax news agency quotes Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko as saying that 48 people have died of swine flu in the country. http://www.rferl.org/content/President_48_Die_Of_Swine_Flu_In_Ukraine/1866075.html http://www.rferl.org/content/President_48_Die_Of_Swine_Flu_In_Ukraine/1866075.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:47:54 +0000 News As every good Slavic studies student knows, it's "Ukraine," without the definite article. But Dick Cheney and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko are reportedly at odds. Slate has more: http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Vs_The_Ukraine/1865351.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Vs_The_Ukraine/1865351.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:37:01 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Vs_The_Ukraine/1865351.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukraine has closed schools, banned public events, and is restricting internal travel for three weeks following the country's first death from H1N1 swine flu. There are worries the tough measures could affect the country's presidential election in January. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Shuts_Schools_Cancels_Public_Events_Due_H1N1/1865135.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Shuts_Schools_Cancels_Public_Events_Due_H1N1/1865135.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:45:17 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Shuts_Schools_Cancels_Public_Events_Due_H1N1/1865135.html#relatedInfoContainer Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev says he believes Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is behind a special operation to assassinate him, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Crimean_Tatar_Leader_Claims_FSB_Behind_Murder_Plan/1864556.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Crimean_Tatar_Leader_Claims_FSB_Behind_Murder_Plan/1864556.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:09:22 +0000 From Our Bureaus Seven people in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil have died from an unknown flu virus, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Unknown_Influenza_Kills_Seven_In_Ukraine/1864356.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Unknown_Influenza_Kills_Seven_In_Ukraine/1864356.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:13:12 +0000 From Our Bureaus From Kyiv to Tbilisi and from Warsaw to Prague, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been playing the role of "comforter in chief," insisting that Washington stands by its friends in the former Socialist bloc -- even as it seeks better relations with Moscow. So how's he doing? http://www.rferl.org/content/Biden_Working_To_Make_It_All_Quiet_On_The_Eastern_Front/1862620.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Biden_Working_To_Make_It_All_Quiet_On_The_Eastern_Front/1862620.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:44:49 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Biden_Working_To_Make_It_All_Quiet_On_The_Eastern_Front/1862620.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko says members of a radical Islamic movement arrested on October 26 planned to kill the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Says_Islamists_Planned_To_Assassinate_Crimean_Tatar_Leader/1862432.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Says_Islamists_Planned_To_Assassinate_Crimean_Tatar_Leader/1862432.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:25 +0000 From Our Bureaus What's your idea of the best place in which to live? Many people would probably answer that palm trees and a gleaming beach would be a good start to their idea of earthly paradise. But in real life, the country which scores best on a whole range of economic and quality-of-life issues is a good deal colder. It's Finland. That's what the 2009 Prosperity Index issued by the British-based think tank the Legatum Institute finds. http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:40 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html#relatedInfoContainer The International Monetary Fund said economic and financial conditions in Ukraine had stabilized but said it needs assurances that wage increases approved by the country's parliament will be vetoed before any further collaboration. http://www.rferl.org/content/IMF_Tells_Ukraine_Wage_Increases_Must_Be_Vetoed/1860659.html http://www.rferl.org/content/IMF_Tells_Ukraine_Wage_Increases_Must_Be_Vetoed/1860659.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:55:38 +0000 News Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has formally joined the race to become Ukraine's next president, pledging to move Ukraine closer to Europe. Tymoshenko's party nominated her as its candidate at a rally October 24 attended by thousands of supporters. http://www.rferl.org/content/Tymoshenko_Opens_Populist_Drive_For_Ukrainian_President/1860431.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Tymoshenko_Opens_Populist_Drive_For_Ukrainian_President/1860431.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:01:00 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Tymoshenko_Opens_Populist_Drive_For_Ukrainian_President/1860431.html#relatedInfoContainer