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11/01/2008
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Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has accused Russia of artificial aggravation of the language issue in Ukraine.
“Over the past several months we have been witnessing Russia’s attempts to artificially aggravate the language issue in our country,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
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26/12/2007
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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said Wednesday she supports all the appointments made by President Viktor Yushchenko.
She said it at a news conference when she was asked to comment on the appointment of Raissa Bogatyryova, one of the leaders of the opposition Regions Party to the post of Security Council Secretary.
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22/12/2007
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Ukraine does not see itself as a neighbour of Europe, Foreign Minister Vladimir Ogryzko said on Friday.
“We are not neighbours. We are a part of Europe. We see our future as European and not as that of neighbours,” he told a meeting with diplomatic corps representatives in Ukraine.
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Programs
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Ukrainian Foreign Policy Program
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The Ukrainian Foreign Policy Program is the primary source of information, analysis, and commentary on Ukrainian foreign policy for politicians, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business, economists, the military, journalists, academics, and the informed public. The UFPP analyzes the costs and benefits of Ukraine's actions on the international arena. By combining research, publications, conferences, and expert networks, it seeks to tackle critical foreign policy problems facing the nation and offer effective solutions to the emerging challenges and risks.
Policy Recommendation Initiative
The primary mission of CIRS's Policy Recommendation Initiative is to assist the Ukrainian government with developing a more efficient and coherent foreign policy. Being a natural extension of the Center’s research and analysis, the Initiative complements CIRS's efforts in making policy impact in the fields of international relations, regional and global security, and Ukrainian foreign policy.
The main product of the Initiative is a set of policy memos that are regularly produced and delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, the Parliament, and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
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Lessons of Ukrainian Peacemaking
Participation of Ukrainian peacekeeping forces in the settlement of current international conflicts has gone beyond the limits of internal political problem. In the modern world the choice of froms and methods of foreign policy becomes an international problem. At the same time any forms and methods require conceptual analyses and answers for at least two questions: what for? and what will be the results? [available only in Russian]
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Ukraine in foreign media
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14/02/2008
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Agence France Presse
NATO member nations will decide who joins the military alliance, a spokesman said Thursday, after Russia said it could turn missiles on NATO-hopeful Ukraine to protect national security.
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13/02/2008
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Wall Street Journal
In a deal that could mean greater security for Russian gas supplies to the European Union, Russia agreed to eliminate a murky middleman company from its gas trade with Ukraine in exchange for a 50% share of Ukraine's domestic gas market.
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08/02/2008
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Financial Times
Russia's Gazprom threatened yesterday to cut off a quarter of Ukraine's gas supplies within days over non-payment of debts, as another possible energy stand-off between the nations loomed.
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Resources
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This report is based on material from the conference ‘European Security: Comparing Experiences from the Baltic Sea and Black Sea Regions, which was organised by the Swedish-Ukrainian Security Forum in Kyiv April 2007.
The Swedish-Ukrainian Security Forum is a joint cooperation network led by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOl) and the Center for International Studies (CIRS), which activities have been sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Sweden.
The report discusses these two regions’ security along three different aspects: Regional Security, energy security and Euro-Atlantic integration. Structurally, the report covers both theoretical and practical aspects of regional security laying conceptual foundations and providing some real life applications.
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In April 2007, the Swedish-Ukrainian Security Forum is preparing for a bigger conference under the theme “European Security: Comparing experiences from the Baltic Sea and Black Sea Regions”. This event will be held in Kyiv and will mark the culmination of the project in its current form.
The Swedish-Ukrainian Security Forum, conducted since 2005, is a joint Swedish-Ukrainian research project. Its purpose is to serve as a bilateral forum for researchers representing different fields of security policy studies, where ideas and views on different security problems can be exchanged. The participants represent a wide spectrum of fields of research as well as institutional affiliations.
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