Ukraine

Protests as Ukraine Approves Russian Base Extension

By  Reuters

From Reuters:  Opposition lawmakers hurled eggs and smoke bombs inside Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday as the chamber approved an agreement allowing the Russian Navy to extend its stay in a Ukrainian port until 2042. … "Today will go down as a black page in the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian parliament,’ opposition leader and former […]

Russia Base Won’t Affect Ukraine NATO Prospect-NATO

By Reuters

Russia to Pay Ukraine Annually $98 Million in Cash for Naval Base Rent

By Interfax

From Interfax: Russia, which has granted a discount on gas payments to Ukraine, will start paying about $98 million in cash annually to rent the Black Sea Fleet’s base in Sevastopol starting in 2019, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said at a press conference on Thursday. A 1997 Russian-Ukrainian treaty on the Black Sea Fleet’s stationing […]

Russia Black Sea Fleet Presence in Ukraine Extended for 25 More Years

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Ukraine has agreed to extend the term of Russian Black Sea Fleet presence in the country’s Crimea for 25 more years, the Russian president said on Wednesday. The new agreement, signed after talks between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, also stipulates the extension for an additional five […]

Ukraine’s Energy Reform Opportunity

By Alexandros Petersen

The 2010 Ukrainian elections have been consigned to history books.  The election season and the winter passed without a major Ukrainian natural gas crisis, and a major gas cutoff, such as occurred in 2009, was avoided

Ukraine Vows to Get Rid of its Enriched Uranium

By the Financial Times

From the Financial Times: Ukraine pledged yesterday to get rid of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make several nuclear weapons, within two years – a good omen for President Barack Obama as he opened a nuclear security summit in Washington. The agreement between Mr Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, his Ukrainian counterpart, will […]

Yanukovich Kills Ukraine’s Bid to Join NATO

By the Christian Science Monitor

From the Christian Science Monitor:  Ukraine’s once deeply controversial bid to join NATO appears to have died a little-noticed bureaucratic death this week, as incoming President Viktor Yanukovich moved to abolish a commission that had been overseeing the country’s preparations for eventual entry into the Western military alliance. Monday’s presidential decree scrapping the commission came […]