Viktor Yanukovych promises Ukraine will embrace Russia

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 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
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. left, shakes hands with Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich, right, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/ Natalia Kolosnikova, pool) 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...

Ukraine's president heads to Moscow to talk gas
Moscow (AP) - 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Russia's Olympic flop sparks Soviet nostalgia
Moscow (AP) - Anger and Soviet nostalgia are sweeping Russia after its dismal showing at the Vancouver Olympics, triggering a purge of sporting officials in an effort to prevent another humiliation when the nation hosts the Winter Games in Sochi in 2014. President Dmitry Medvedev quickly revived Soviet-era methods this week by firing top sporting chiefs and demanding assurances that the debacle will not be repeated on home soil. In calling for “those responsible” to resign,...

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.    ...

Rhetorical Question Much? Russia's NATO envoy offers $1 million to anyone who will prove him wrong, bro
Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Russia’s fire-mouthed envoy to NATO has offered , via his increasingly insane Twitter feed, $1 million dollars to anyone “who will prove that NATO is not pursuing Military planning against Russia.” Hilariously, Ria Novosti, one of the state news wires, ran with the story, saying , “He did not say, however, how he would hand the money to the winner, or even if he possessed such a sum.” Conveniently, it doesn’t matter...

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...

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...