Ukraine

Ukraine Will Not Join CSTO

By Interfax

From Interfax: Ukraine does not plan to become a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko told the 2000 newspaper. Ukraine has not and cannot be invited to join the CSTO because it ‘has made it absolutely clear that it is opposed to membership in any blocs,’ Hryshchenko said. […]

Ukraine Drops NATO Membership Aim

By Reuters

From Reuters: Ukraine Thursday formally buried pursuit of NATO membership as an aim, its foreign minister declaring the issue had been taken off the policy agenda. It was the most clear-cut statement by the new leadership of President Viktor Yanukovich that the issue was a dead letter in Ukraine for the conceivable future. "Ukraine will […]

Ukraine to Build Up Cooperation with NATO to Reform Armed Forces

By RIA Novosti

Russia and Ukraine Sign Protocol Resuming Russian Intelligence Presence in the Crimea

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russia and Ukraine signed on Wednesday a protocol regulating the presence of Russian security officers at the Black Sea Fleet facilities in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said. "The protocol stipulates the exchange of information and coordinated efforts to prevent illegal activities against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet that pose a threat […]

Ukraine: Containing the Con

By Alexander Motyl

For five years Viktor Yanukovych claimed to be a democratic, moderate, and unifier—everything that the Orange elites presumably were not. In the two months that he has occupied the president’s seat, Yanukovych has shown that he is an authoritarian, radical, and disunifier—everything that the Orange revolutionaries had accused him of being in 2004.

Russia’s Strategic Gains at Ukraine’s and Europe’s Expense

By Stephen Blank, the Jamestown Foundation

From Stephen Blank, the Jamestown Foundation: Russia’s new deal with Ukraine on the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) and gas prices has profound bilateral significance, as well as for the CIS and even Europe. It ratifies long-term Russian gains at the expense of all the other players and continues to solidify Moscow’s claim to possess a […]

Ukraine to Continue Developing Relations with NATO

By Interfax

From Interfax: Ukraine will continue promoting cooperation with NATO, Ukrainian First Deputy Defense Minister Hryhoriy Pedchenko said at a meeting with the alliance’s delegation led by head of NATO’s Defense Policy Planning Directorate Frank Boland in Kyiv on April 27. We will continue developing our relations with NATO within the Annual National Program, the Ukraine-NATO […]