Russian Federation
By Justus Leicht and Peter Schwarz, January 31, 2005
Following his January 23 inauguration as Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko travelled to Moscow for his first official visit and assured his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that Russia would ...
Russia: wave of protests against welfare cuts
By Stanislav Smolin and Vladimir Volkov, January 27, 2005
Since the beginning of January, a growing wave of protests has developed in Russia against the so-called monetarisation of social security benefits.
Abkhazian elite come to settlement with Kremlin
By Simon Whelan, January 27, 2005
After a debacle lasting three months, a new government has finally been established in Abkhazia. Georgian authorities, including President Mikhail Saakashvili, denounced the elections as unlawful, but...
Oil giant Yukos and the struggle for Russian energy sources
By Ulrich Rippert, January 10, 2005
On December 23, the American government renewed its sharp criticism of the action taken by Russian authorities to break up the oil company Yukos. Adam Ereli, US State Department deputy spokesperson, t...
US client Yushchenko to assume Ukraine presidency
By Justus Leicht, January 6, 2005
Nothing now stands in the way of a change of power in Ukraine following decisions by both the Ukrainian Supreme Court and central electoral committee rejecting objections raised to the result of the r...
A revealing commentary by a German newspaper
The price of Ukrainian democracy
By Peter Schwarz, December 31, 2004
“Triumph for democracy” was the title of a recent commentary in the German Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper dealing with the results of the Ukrainian presidential elections. The author of th...
Ukraine election: on-the-spot report from Kiev
A fight between millionaires and billionaires
By Patrick Richter, December 29, 2004
Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko has been declared the winner in the third round of the Ukrainian presidential election. He received 52 percent of the vote, while his opponent, Prime Minister Vi...
Yushchenko claims victory in Ukraine presidential election
By Justus Leicht and Peter Schwarz, December 28, 2004
In all probability, Viktor Yushchenko will be the new president of Ukraine. In the repeat election held December 26, the opposition candidate, who ran with the vocal political support and financial ba...
The power struggle in Ukraine and America’s strategy for global supremacy
By Peter Schwarz, December 23, 2004
In 1997, former US security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski published a book entitled The Grand Chessboard that attracted considerable attention and treated America’s strategy for global supremacy. ...
Ukraine power struggle: constitutional settlement favors opposition leader Yushchenko
By Peter Schwarz, December 10, 2004
Under strong international pressure, the Ukrainian parliament on December 8 enacted a new election law and a change in the constitution that largely met the demands of the opposition movement led by V...
What US-backed “democracy movements” have produced in Serbia and Georgia
By Justus Leicht, December 9, 2004
A change of regime is being carried out in Ukraine along the same lines as those carried out in Serbia (2000) and Georgia (2003). So-called “democracy movements,” which enjoy substantial f...
Power struggle in Ukraine continues
By Peter Schwarz, December 8, 2004
Conflicts continue between the opposing camps following the decision by the Ukraine Supreme Court to annul the disputed result of the presidential election of November 21 and order a revote on Decembe...
