Roman Kupchinsky

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• April 18, 2005

  East: Ukraine, Russia Spar Over Turkmen Gas

  18 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- A number of unpublished agreements purportedly signed between the governments of Ukraine and Turkmenistan for the purchase of natural gas have inflamed the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow over natural-gas deliveries from Turkmenistan.

• April 04, 2005

  Ukraine: Kyiv Eyes Iran's Gas For Use, Transit to Europe

  The government of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is interested in Iranian gas Prague, 4 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- In early February, Interfax announced that Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will make an official visit to Iran in the "first half of the year." The topics to be discussed during the visit were listed as bilateral relations and joint projects in the energy sector.

• April 02, 2005

  CIS: Monitoring The Election Monitors

  The CIS monitors were kicked out by Moldovan officials The Ukrainian government announced earlier in March that it has suspended its participation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Election Monitoring Organization, a group that has gained notoriety by often proclaiming elections in former Soviet republics to be free and fair, in contrast to other monitoring groups that find the same elections to be flawed.

• March 22, 2005

  Analysis: Talking Gas In Turkmenistan

  Gas will be on Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's mind on 22 March when he arrives in Ashgabat to meet with Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov.

• March 14, 2005

  Analysis: Accepting Hizballah As A Legitimate Political Entity

  Hizballah is a big supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Once the poster child for Mideast terrorism, Hizballah (Party of God) is rapidly emerging from the slums of Beirut and the economically depressed southern part of Lebanon to flex its muscles and possibly become a major player in the region and, inter alia, in the war on terrorism.

• March 11, 2005

  Analysis: International Security After Al-Qaeda

  Madrid, 11 March 2004 Al-Qaeda is on the decline. Porter J. Goss, the former chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was quoted by "The Washington Post" on 16 March 2003 as saying "I believe the tide has turned in terms of Al-Qaeda."

• March 07, 2005

  Analysis: Kuchma Returns To Ukraine And Possible Arrest

  Leonid Kuchma (file photo) Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma returned to Kyiv on 5 March after cutting short his vacation in the spa resort of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. He arrived the same day that some members of parliament were calling for his arrest in the investigation of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze's abduction and killing in 2000, and a suicide note by former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko was revealed in which he blames his suicide on "political intrigues" by "Kuchma and his supporters."

• March 03, 2005

  Analysis: Gongadze Case Could Open Pandora's Box In Ukraine

  Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun (file photo) (epa) Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun's press conference in Kyiv on 2 March revealed a number of new developments in the rapidly widening investigation of the slaying of online journalist Heorhiy Gongadze.

• March 02, 2005

  Police Officers Arrested In Gongadze Case

  Heorhiy Gongadze in 2000 Prague, 2 March 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's prosecutor-general says two senior police officers were arrested in connection with the 2000 murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze.

• March 01, 2005

  Analysis: The Threat Of Bioterrorism

  A British soldier wearing a nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare suit "To seek to possess weapons that could counter those of the infidels is a religious duty." -- Osama bin Laden, speaking in 1998.

• February 14, 2005

  Analysis: Counterterrorism Conference Signals That Saudi Kingdom Is Preparing For Stormy Future

  Saudi security troops preparing for this year's hajj, which went off without any major violence By most media accounts, the Riyadh conference on counterterrorism on 5-8 February was a qualified success. The conference brought together representatives from more than 50 Arab, Asian, and European countries, excluding Israel, which was not invited.

• February 09, 2005

  Analysis: Problems In Ukraine's Coal Industry Run Deep

  Reforming Ukraine's coal industry is one of the major problems facing President Viktor Yushchenko and the government of newly appointed Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko knows the power of coal from personal experience. She tried to reform the industry while she was deputy prime minister from 1999 to 2001. She was abruptly removed from office in January 2001 by former President Leonid Kuchma, charged with fraud and money laundering, and jailed for several weeks. The charges against her were eventually dismissed.

• February 02, 2005

  Analysis: Kuchma's Ukraine Cruises Back Into The Spotlight

  An ongoing investigation by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has revealed that in 2002, officials of the SBU, along with high-ranking members of the Ukrainian military and the state arms-sales company UkrSpetzExport, sold at least six cruise missiles each to Iran and China.

• January 05, 2005

  Analysis: Russia, China, And The Politics Of Energy

  Is Russia positioning itself to become China's major supplier of oil and gas in the near future? This frequently asked question took on new significance on 21 December when President Vladimir Putin -- explaining the "perfectly normal" procedures implemented during the auction of Yukos's main production unit, Yuganskneftegaz -- told reporters in Schleswig, Germany, that China's National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) would participate in some unnamed fashion in "working with Yuganskneftegaz assets."

• December 17, 2004

  Analysis: Saudi Security Versus 'Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula'

  Osama bin Laden (file photo) An Arabic-language website broadcast on 17 December taped message purportedly from Osama bin Laden in which the Al-Qaeda leader commented on the recent attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah.

• November 26, 2004

  Analysis: Russia's New Imperialism

  Russian President Vladimir Putin with his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma "Russian democracy ends on the border with Ukraine" is an oft-repeated maxim among the Ukrainian political elite. It was reputedly coined by Volodymyr Vynnychenko, one of the leaders of the 1918 Ukrainian national revolution, after Lenin sent the Red Army to reconquer Ukraine after the fall of the Tsarist Russian empire.

• November 24, 2004

  Analysis: What Might A 'Yanukovych Presidency' In Ukraine Bring?

  Could a 'President Yanukovych' paper over his differences with opponents at home and abroad? If rapidly unfolding events in Kyiv do not reverse Viktor Yanukovych's seemingly insurmountable lead in official figures that have emerged in the wake of the Ukrainian presidential runoff on 21 November, his official triumph will not have been totally unexpected.

• November 18, 2004

  Analysis: Enter Gazpromneft

  "There is no greater nonsense than the separation of internal from external policy." Vladimir Lenin

• November 16, 2004

  Analysis: New Proposals On The Russian Antiterrorism Front

  After the initial shock and confusion of the Beslan hostage tragedy faded, Russian law enforcement agencies began in mid-October and early November to provide background information to the press about possible new measures to be used in the war on terrorism.

• November 01, 2004

  Analysis: A Strange Message From Osama Bin Laden

  After a year's silence, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden once again made his views known in a videotaped message, parts of which were aired on the Al-Jazeera satellite-television network on 29 October.

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