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In-Depth Ukrainian News, Analysis and Commentary Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World By Roman Kupchinsky, Investigative Journalist and Analyst Tom Warner in Kiev, Financial Times, London, UK, Thu, Jan 26 2006 Vilnius, Lithuania, in Lithuanian Thu, 19 Jan 06 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Jan 25, 2006
This would not bode well for further reforms. The Donetsk based party is backed by oligarchs, such as the Chief of Staff of the old Kuchma regime, Viktor Medvedchuk, and the ex-President's son-in-law, Viktor Rinat Akhmetov, owner of System Capital Management and reportedly Ukraine's richest man, will join the party as a prospective member of the Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party trails in third place with 11 per cent. These figures are unlikely to change dramatically.
That would leave no party with On these figures, the Party of the Regions will gain some 175 seats in the Rada while Tymoshenko will receive 95 seats and Our Ukraine 79. Socialists, the ultra left Vitrenko bloc, the Popular Party and the Communists should Her party would not support such a move. Ideological differences aside, slot.
Their recent unity on the No Confidence vote was a short lived that he needs her to push through his policies. For Yanukovych it was a Many of its members would defect to an opposition led by Tymoshenko. Our However, to obtain some form of political legitimacy and muscle Yushchenko's This is not impossible.
Tymoshenko was wounded by her dismissal in September 2005, but will feel honour was satisfied by her dismissal of the positions do not seriously diverge. Both believe broadly in the direction of reforms. Tymoshenko has said she will regard the Party of the Regions as her main opponents.
She still regards herself as being on Yushchenko's side. nous. This has not been a feature of his administration so far.
He approached reform as a technocrat, not a politician. He needs advisers successful change. So far, he has achieved little, save the squandering of months, and in no way represented a long term solution to this vexed issue.
No one knows better than Tymoshenko, a former energy billionaire, the Simply, Yushchenko must swallow his pride in March and ensure that his His choices are limited, but, if he fails to form such a coalition, there is Should the parties fail to reach agreement in the spring, the country's new Ukraine's new moment of truth is approaching by the week. -30- By Roman Kupchinsky, Investigative Journalist and Analyst
Does it own any gas fields in Russia or Central Asia, or any pipelines
RosUkrEnergo does not own any property except a few bank accounts,
In Central Asian countries, gas fields are owned by those countries. None
It transverses Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia to the
RUE does not have any technicians, any repair men or technicians to operate the compressor stations. . Q.
How is RUE paid for signing these documents and paying bills? A. The payment details for RUE were NOT included in the copy of the
contractual obligations by either side. It is an expression of intent and The original contracts between RUE and Gazprom and Naftohaz Ukraine,
RUE will make a profit of close to $2 billion by reselling the gas. Since RUE is registered in a Swiss Canton, it will only pay an agreed upon amount of taxes to the Canton. The Russian treasury will not see a penny in Q.
Why did Russia give RUE exclusive rights to be the sole supplier of gas to the Ukrainian border? Was there a tender? A.
There was no tender when RUE, or its predecessor, Eural Trans Gas,
In the Eural Trans Gas contract there was no mention of any fee paid to Gazprom for
A. Yes, that is the main point of contention. Of course Gazprom could have done this without RUE as well as Naftohaz Ukraine.
There was no need to outside of Budapest, owned by an unemployed Romanian actress and a young in Tel Aviv who represented Semyon Mogilevich to be the owner of the
A. None. All it does is act as a transmission belt for huge sums of money and a tax shelter for Russia's finest.
Its main assets are its bank accounts and close contacts to the Russian elite. RUE in reality is the alter ego of
Tom Warner in Kiev, Financial Times, London, UK, Thu, Jan 26 2006 RosUkrEnergo, the Swiss-registered company that would become sole contracts and agreements that would finalise the deal, after Ukraine's Ukraine's prime minister, Yuri Yekhanurov, and Russia's deputy prime minister for energy, Viktor Khristenko, both described the problem as a minor hitch and said they were working on a solution. But others close to Alex Danilyuk, an adviser to Mr Yekhanurov working on the gas deal, said the pressure was growing with each delay, and he felt it would be better to slow We have a framework deal and it's working," he said.venture with the state oil and gas company Naftogaz. But that part of the deal cannot go ahead without clearance from the anti-monopoly committee, which is headed by Olexy Kostusyev, who is running in March parliamentary Bohdan Yakymyuk, a spokesman for the committee, said its specialists were the company had not delivered the documents needed to clarify who, or which organisations, controlled RosUkrEnergo and what connections they had, if any, to other participants in Ukraine's gas market. whether we get the documents required by law," Mr Yakymyuk said.
However, Mr Danilyuk said RosUkrEnergo could retain the more important
The major principle to follow here is that we must The old system has exhausted itself, and no European country today has such energy-intensive industrial and private sectors as Ukraine. Gas prices is wasted. In fact, heating plants are not heating buildings so much as the Back in 1999 I proposed a project for Vinnytsia, which could significantly improve the situation.
The project boiled down to building rooftop boilers to which several multistory buildings could be connected. This approach public utilities sector. Given the continuing technological progress, today's boilers are much more efficient than six years ago, which is why
If a private company builds a rooftop boiler, its payback period will be government). At the same time, the quality of service will increase significantly. Consequently, this approach has a big future, which is why it The government's project to install plastic windows is praiseworthy.
After all, it takes six to eight times less energy to heat one square meter in a ordinary building. This task is up to the government because state utilities As for alternative energy sources, unfortunately, Ukraine is still at square For example, Austria, Germany, and many other European nations effectively use wind power plants to generate energy. Ukraine has ample space to build However, such a project would require appropriate government funding.
Therefore, we simply must find investors environmentally friendly way. Some 60% of agricultural lands in Vinnytsia oblast are overgrown with weeds. Meanwhile, growing rapeseed on these lands would benefit both the industrial and agrarian sectors.
-30- The Day Weekly Digest in English #1, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, 24 Jan 2006 have?) become a sacred symbol of the unity of our political nation from Donetsk to Uzhhorod, from Chernihiv to Symferopol. This was Union Day, which will always be a reminder to contemporaries and their descendants of Jan.
22, 1919, when Kyiv's St. Sophia Square brethren in eastern Ukraine - Symon Petliura, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and one. Two weeks later, on Feb.
5, 1919, Kyiv was captured by Bolshevik troops, who understood the unity of Ukraine as a purely nationalistic slogan not been attained in many respects. (We must admit this honestly and frankly because illusions, no matter how "rosy" they may be, lead to a dead end.) To answer this question, it is necessary to determine why the Ukrainian In spite of different views, most historians agree that the fatal role in the Ukrainian liberation movement was played by disunity, a maniacal (primarily, foreign ones) as among themselves for the coveted "mace," the symbol of power, and also by their inability to wisely and harmoniously resolve ethnic and social problems, which are the Scylla and Charybdis Dear reader, does this remind you in some way of contemporary developments?
The answer is all too obvious. For us Union Day is not a Moreover, it is a very pressing problem to find the principles that could unite western and eastern Ukrainians. (We must admit that here things have not improved much, to put it mildly, during the year in which the Orange government has been in power.
) absolutely all individuals no matter where they reside, whether in Donetsk or Lviv, and no matter what offices they hold (Immanuel Kant said that one narrow circle of individuals close to "the No. 1 person" makes all the period of time, and the people will inevitably proclaim a just verdict (for a lot (as a minimum) depends on me in our (not "this") country, because my children, grandchildren, and I have to live here. In my opinion, these are the principles that could bring together the Ukrainian political nation.
Readers can probably name quite a few others. This is the beginning of a very pressing and crucial dialogue. -30- His photo shows a street child in Odessa, Ukraine.
Yana made her way from Moldova, the poorest country in Eastern Europe, to the Ukrainian city. She died last Christmas addicted to drugs and infected with the HI virus. She was only 13 years old.
adolescents in many Eastern European countries. In no other region of the Approximately one per cent of the population is addicted to hard drugs. 1.
4 million have already contracted HIV, primarily young people are affected: 80 catastrophe in Eastern Europe. It is an appeal for our compassion.
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