Tag Archive 'Yushchenko'

Buying Tymoshenko

Lee on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page

As the European Union commendably attempts to pull Ukraine closer into the safety of the West, Russia has reportedly earmarked $1 billion to fund suddenly pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, against heroically pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko in the 2010 presidential election.

One billion. If true, it seems Russia is ready to make an enormous commitment to the subversion of democracy in her neighbor…and it’s a frighteningly expensive investment to allow to fail.

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Russian Nuclear Threat Against Ukraine

Lee on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

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Russia’s fears of NATO expansion reaching right to her western border with Ukraine, have provoked a new round of saber rattling from the Kremlin. Here’s Putin’s ominous quote, after he had just met with Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko: “It’s frightening not just to talk about, but even to think about, that in response to such deployment, the possibility of such deployments – and one can’t theoretically exclude these deployments – that Russia will have to point its warheads at Ukrainian territory.”

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