Tymoshenko triggers committee to protest against Yanukovych's policy

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Tymoshenko triggers committee to protest against Yanukovych's policy

May 04 at 17:54 | Ukrainian News

Bloc leader Yulia Tymoshenko wants creation of committees protecting Ukraine in all regions of the country to demonstrate the disagreement of public with the policy of President Viktor Yanukovych and to press for early elections to the Verkhovna Rada. She gave her position in an interview with the Fifth Channel on May 1.

In the opinion of the former prime minister of Ukraine, the current parliament is incapable of protecting the national interests of Ukraine. Consequently, the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada can be the only solution to the challenge, said Tymoshenko.

Tymoshenko said it is impossible to employ the resignation of 150 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada as the legal ground for disbanding the parliament, as this legal norm has been changed after 2007.

EUobserver / EU has no objections to Gazprom-Naftogaz takeover

EUobserver / EU has no objections to Gazprom-Naftogaz takeover

EU has no objections to Gazprom-Naftogaz takeover

ANDREW RETTMAN

06.05.2010 @ 17:42 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has no objections to Russia's proposed takeover of Ukraine's national gas company, despite warnings that it would harm EU interests.
"The decision has to come between Kiev and Moscow and not in Brussels," EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger told journalists in Brussels on Thursday (6 April) after meeting Ukrainian energy minister Yuriy Boyko.

Mr Oettinger (r): 'Today there is no reason for any activity of the European Commission' (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Journalists protest against censorship :: khpg.org

Journalists protest against censorship :: khpg.org

Journalists protest against censorship

06.05.10 | www.pravda.com.ua

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Journalists have issued an open letter in which they assert that censorship is being imposed on Television Channel 1 + 1. The journalists from TSN which is the news service of the same media outlet write:

“As journalists from TSN, we wish to state that censorship is being imposed on the television channel 1 + 1.

We are prohibited from covering certain subjects on air. Our reports containing criticism of the current regime are for political considerations taken off air. The final decision regarding whether material is broadcast is taken not by the editor of the programme, not even by the Chief Editor of TSN, but by the General Director of 1 + 1”.

Українська діаспора у США протестує проти

Українська діаспора у США протестує
[05.05.2010 11:26]

Українська діаспора у США протестує

Акцію протесту проти продовження перебування російського флоту в Криму провела українська громада у США.
Протест відбувся під час дводенного візиту Міністра закордонних справ України Костянтина Грищенка до США.

Як передає власний кореспондент УНІАН, кілька сотень протестантів зібрались перед будинком Постійного представництва України при ООН, де у Грищенка повинна була відбутися зустріч із представниками української громади.

Ukrainian Civil Society creates Public Committee for Salvation of Ukraine

Громадськість створює комітет порятунку України | Українська правда
Join on http://www.opir.net.ua

Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 15:51

On Wednesday in Kiev, the action group meeting with a Public  Committee for Salvation of Ukraine.
This is the Description of reference.
 
Group intends to hold a meeting in the Writers' Union of Ukraine, which will discuss issues concerning the early formation of the Committee.

Natural gas: An unconventional glut | The Economist

Natural gas: An unconventional glut | The Economist

Natural gas

An unconventional glut

Newly economic, widely distributed sources are shifting the balance of power in the world’s gas markets

Mar 11th 2010 | HOUSTON | From The Economist print edition

SOME time in 2014 natural gas will be condensed into liquid and loaded onto a tanker docked in Kitimat, on Canada’s Pacific coast, about 650km (400 miles) north-west of Vancouver. The ship will probably take its cargo to Asia. This proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, to be built by Apache Corporation, an American energy company, will not be North America’s first. Gas has been shipped from Alaska to Japan since 1969. But if it makes it past the planning stages, Kitimat LNG will be one of the continent’s most significant energy developments in decades.

EUobserver / [Comment] The end of Ukraine's EU integration?

The end of Ukraine's EU integration?

VOLODOMYR YERMOLENKO

Today @ 13:17 CET

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - The first two months of office of Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych look like the unfolding of the worst possible post-election scenario for the country.
The new President has prolonged the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea until 2042, which cancels any chances of joining Nato for the next 30 years and also puts in doubt the country's EU membership prospects for decades to come.

Squashed oranges: the Orange Revolution of 2004 did not deliver promised reforms (Photo: mattlemmon)

He seems poised to accept a takeover of Ukraine's highly-advanced aviation and nuclear industries by Russian companies, and is ready to "examine" the Kremlin-proposed merger, or takeover, of Ukraine's key strategic asset, the state-owned gas and oil monopoly Naftogaz, by Russia's Gazprom.
On top of all this, he has stood up and denied in the Council of Europe that the great famine of 1932-1933, which was caused by Stalin and claimed up to 7 million Ukrainian lives, should not be called "genocide." There is talk he may recognise the independence of Georgia's Russia-backed rebel regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Russia extends its reach | The Japan Times Online

Russia extends its reach | The Japan Times Online

Russia has considered states on its periphery as part of its sphere of influence. Frequently, however, those neighbors have had ideas of their own and their domestic politics have been defined by the struggle between pro- and anti-Russian factions.

This fight was played out most recently in Ukraine, where the election of Viktor Yanukovych earlier this year signaled the resurgence of pro-Moscow forces in the country. Last week, the two countries signed a gas-for-bases deal that consolidates Russia's presence and influence.

While Yanukovych is no less nationalist than his rivals, his sympathies lie more with Moscow than did those of his predecessor, Viktor Yushchenko. Indeed, Yushchenko's pro-Western inclinations created considerable tension with Moscow. He sought Ukraine's membership in NATO and the European Union, halted the formation of a consortium with Russia that would have modernized Ukraine's gas pipeline network, and had pledged to to expel the Russian fleet from its Black Sea base in Sevastopol in 2017, when its current lease expires.

What Russia gets from the Ukraine gas deal

MOSCOW, Russia — Just two months after the inauguration of a friendly president in neighboring Ukraine, Russia has moved swiftly to solidify its influence in the country, making Kiev’s flirtation with the West look like a brief post-Soviet blip.
Today, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed into law a deal extending Russia’s lease of a naval base in Crimea, Ukraine’s autonomous Black Sea region. The contentious deal ensures a Russian naval presence on Ukrainian territory through 2042.

The European Council on Foreign Relations | What are the Ukrainians playing at?

What are the Ukrainians playing at?

By Andrew Wilson - 30 Apr 10

Ukrainian MPs often fight in parliament. On 27 April they threw eggs and let off smoke bombs, as opposition MPs accused Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych of selling out the country to Russia for a few pieces of silver.
Ukraine is back to playing the game it knows best: the balancing act between East and West.
Yanukovych initially seemed to be making overtures to the West. His first foreign visit was to Brussels on 1 March, where he made all the right noises. In Washington on 12-13 April Yanukovych helpfully provided Obama with the headlines he needed at an otherwise fruitless non-proliferation summit by agreeing to give up Ukraine's stockpile of enriched uranium.

No discount on gas after "Kharkov arrangements"

No discount on gas after "Kharkov arrangements"
May 1, 2010
‘The Russian fuel will cost for Ukraine as much as for European countries”, - said the MP from PSD Taras Stetskiv at the "Ukraine" TV channel
If you look at the economic aspects, there is a myth, not a discount on gas. We pay the average European price minus transportation costs, - the deputy said.
They applied absolutely headstrong approach, taking the price of Russian gas at the border with Italy and cutting the costs of transportation.
This is not discount, this is a real price paid by Europe, - he concluded.
Earlier, a similar position was expressed by the experts. According to them, the assertion that the price of Russian gas for Ukraine is the cheapest in Europe, is a myth, says Liga.net