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24 September 2011
Viktor’s dilemma. A country caught precariously between east and west
“I FEEL the weight of history,” said Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, at the Yalta European Strategy forum (set up by Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch). The conference took place in the Livadia palace, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin decided the fate of Europe in February 1945.
23 September 2011
Южный Давос
This article is available only in Russian
23 September 2011
Volatility high as Yanukovych heads to Moscow for more tense talks on gas
YALTA - President Viktor Yanukovych flies to Moscow on Sept. 24 for pivotal talks with his Moscow counterpart in the hopes of securing cheaper natural gas prices for an ailing domestic economy that is heavily fueled by Russian imports.
23 September 2011
Kiev se fâche avec les Russes et les Vingt-Sept (in French)
Le président Viktor Ianoukovitch vient de perdre simultanément la bataille du gaz avec Moscou et le soutien de l’Union européenne à cause notamment de l’incarcération de l’ex-première ministre Ioulia Timochenko. Le pays s’isole de plus en plus
23 September 2011
Экономист №1
This article is available only in Russian
22 September 2011
The Advent of a Global Intelligence
YALTA, UKRAINE — Get ready for the global brain. That was the grand finale of a presentation on the next generation of the Internet I heard last week from Yuri Milner. G-8 leaders had a preview of Mr. Milner’s predictions a few months earlier, when he was among the technology savants invited to brief the world’s most powerful politicians in Deauville, France.
«Culture is an important marker of the war itself. It is a marker which is more important than its institutions and distances. Russian politicians want to destroy the very notion of what Ukraine is and what it actually means. This is a war of values. We have to win this.»