Ukraine president in Moscow for talks with Russian leadership

Ukraine's new president heads to Moscow in hopes of getting a new deal on natural gas
Moscow — Ukraine's new president is meeting with his Russian counterpart to talk Gas. The Kremlin says Viktor Yanukovych will hold talks with Dmitry Medvedev Thursday afternoon. Yanukovych, who was sworn in last week, is anxious to get lower prices for Natural Gas Russia supplies to Ukraine. During his election campaign, the Kremlin-friendly hopeful said he would offer Russia a role in managing Ukraine's pipeline system in return for lower prices. Russia's Gas monopolist Gazprom said...

Ukraine president in Moscow for talks with Russian leadership
  AFP - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who came to power on pledges of resetting ties with Russia, was expected in Moscow Friday amid efforts to defuse years of tensions between the two neighbors.     Arriving for the first Russian visit by a Ukrainian head of state in two years, Yanukovych, who took office last week, was scheduled to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, considered to be the country's paramount leader.    ...

Viktor Yanukovych promises Ukraine will embrace Russia
Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president, drinks tea with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, at the Kremlin in Moscow. Photograph: Vladimir Rodionov/Ria Novosti/EPA The new president of Ukraine , Viktor Yanukovych , has promised a dramatic improvement in relations with Russia during his first official visit to Moscow. Speaking after a meeting with his counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev , Yanukovych said he would perform a sharp U-turn on the polices pursued by his predecessor, Viktor...

Yanukovich Visits Russia and Promises Better Relations
Moscow — Ukraine ’s newly inaugurated president, Viktor F. Yanukovich , arrived in Moscow on Friday promising a “sharp turn” in his country’s relations with Russia , five years after the Orange Revolution chilled formerly close ties between the two neighbors. “The new government in Ukraine will change relations with Russia, so that they will never again be like they were for the last five years,” Mr. Yanukovich said in a meeting with Russian...

Russia, Ukraine hope to revive ties
AFP Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who came to power on pledges of improving ties with Russia, on Friday arrived in Moscow amid efforts to defuse years of tensions between the two neighbours. Arriving for the first Russian visit by a Ukrainian head of state in two years, Yanukovych, who took office last week, was scheduled to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, widely seen as the country's paramount leader. Natural Gas is set to be among top issues...

Ukraine and Russia vow 'new page' in ties
Moscow — Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week. "This five-year period has given us the opportunity to open a new page in our relations," Yanukovych said, referring to his five-year term, following talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev said Moscow and Kiev would work to resolve irritants that had accumulated under Yanukovych's...

Viktor Yanukovych promises Ukraine will embrace Russia
Source: Guardian Viktor Yanukovych promises Ukraine will embrace Russia New president's inaugural Moscow visit appears to Usher in new era between countries Luke Harding in Moscow guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 March 2010 17.43 GMT The new president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, has promised a dramatic improvement in relations with Russia during his first official visit to Moscow. Speaking after a meeting with his counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, Yanukovych said he would perform a sharp U-turn on...

Ukraine's Parliament Seals Prime Minister's Ouster
Moscow — The Parliament in Ukraine passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko on Wednesday, ousting the last of the Orange Revolution leaders from power but almost certainly not from politics. Related The no-confidence vote was expected after Ms. Tymoshenko lost the Presidential Election last month, and after the Parliament speaker said Tuesday that the coalition that appointed her prime minister had broken up. Before the vote, she had unexpectedly told...

Ukraine and Russia vow 'new page' in ties
Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week. "This five-year period has given us the opportunity to open a new page in our relations," Yanukovych said, referring to his five-year term, following talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev said Moscow and Kiev would work to resolve irritants that had accumulated under Yanukovych's predecessor,...

Ukraine and Russia vow 'new page' in ties
Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week. "This five-year period has given us the opportunity to open a new page in our relations," he said, referring to his five-year term, following talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev said Moscow and Kiev would resume work on resolving irritants that made little progress under Yanukovych's...

Ukraine and Russia vow 'new page' in ties
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in Moscow Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first visit to Moscow since taking office last week. "This five-year period has given us the opportunity to open a new page in our relations," Yanukovych said, referring to his five-year term, following talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev said Moscow...

Liberals rap Kremlin as Stalin is worshipped
Moscow (Reuters) - Russian communists paid homage on Friday to Soviet leader Josef Stalin, while Liberals accused the Kremlin of conniving to whitewash the dictator. World   |   Russia Communist Party chiefs led a procession of largely elderly people across Red Square on the 57th anniversary of Stalin's death, laying flowers at his grave by the Kremlin wall. The solemn visit is an annual tradition for communists steeped in nostalgia for the Soviet era. But this year, it...

Russian court extends pretrial detention of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev
Multimedia A Moscow court ordered on Friday that Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev spend another three months in harsh pretrial detention rather than return to regular jail. Khodorkovsky, 45, and Lebedev, 42, are already serving eight-year Prison terms for Tax Evasion and fraud issued by a Moscow court in 2005 after a highly politicized trial seen by many in the West as part of a Kremlin drive to subdue politically ambitious business tycoons. Both were...

Putin SCOLDS Russian Athletes For Olympics Flop
Moscow — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took Russian sports officials to task Friday over the nation's dismal showing at the Vancouver Games, despite what he described as generous state funding. Putin told a government meeting that Russian sports federations must have broader power and specific responsibilities, more sports facilities need to be built and wages of coaches must be increased to prevent a similar humiliation when Russia hosts the 2014 Games in Sochi. "I already hear some say...

Dissident Turned Technocrat: Medvedev Takes On Putin with Governor Appointment
Russian President Dimitri Medvedev has named a former opposition leader as the governor of the region of Kirov Oblast. The appointment is a test of whether Medvedev can assert himself against his powerful prime minister, Vladimir Putin. Nikita Belykh has a difficult relationship with the armed forces. But on Defender of the Motherland Day, Belykh, who is governor of Kirov Oblast, located some 800 kilometers northeast of Moscow, attended a ceremony honoring the country's war veterans.

Ukraine's Black Sea Fleet 'shift'
The newly elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych has suggested he would allow Russia's Black Sea Fleet to remain in his country beyond 2017. Mr Yanukovych, during his first visit to Moscow since his election last month, said he would open a "new page" in relations with Russia.

Olympics may be over, but the heads are just starting to roll. Kinda
Watching the unfurling, confused hysteria at the highest levels of the Kremlin over Russia’s disappointing medal count in Vancouver, you’d think Russia had lost the latest world war. On Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev denounced unnamed “fat cats” and demanded those felines responsible for the debacle at the Winter Games step down. “Those responsible for the preparations for the Olympics should bear responsibility,” he

Letters: On Ukraine, health care, financial risk, Texas, the euro, computers
SIR – Your leader on Ukraine characterised the demise of the orange coalition as a case study in how to “entrench” and to “squander” the gains from a revolution (“ Bloodless orange ”, February 13th). I could not agree more, but perhaps not in the way you described. “Revolution” was never the best term to depict the historic events of 2004. Ukraine did not undergo a transformation of state or society, as it did when an imperialist Russia was...

Russia says still room for diplomacy with Iran
PARIS (Reuters) – Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday there was still room for Diplomacy rather than Sanctions to produce a solution to the dispute with Iran over its nuclear program. "We will concentrate all efforts on finding political and diplomatic solutions. These efforts have not yet been exhausted," Lavrov told journalists during a trip to Paris. Lavrov said his comments were in line with a statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev , who on...

Russia open to Iran sanctions
© Reuters Medvedev says appeals to Iran's leaders have not 'provided any results' Russia has said it is ready to consider new Sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme as the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog says he cannot verify that all of Tehran's atomic activities are peaceful. Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, said on Monday that Sanctions should only be used if diplomatic efforts fail and even then, only "smart" Sanctions that avoid targeting Iran's population as a...

Winning the Human Lottery: The Russian-American Battle over Chatroulette
Late last year, only 500 people were using the Web site that Andrey Ternovskiy launched. Now Chatroulette gets around 1.5 million visitors daily. With Russian billionaires offering him cash and Google on the other line, the Moscow teenager has to make a decision: America or Russia? A car with dark tinted windows rolls up to an ordinary-looking, lanky teenager in an ordinary neighborhood in northern Moscow. A man in a black suit opens the door of the limousine. "Are you ready, Andrey?" he...