Russia's Grasp on Ukraine Rising
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Ukraine's main opposition leader, on the eve of a trip to the U.S., warned Saturday that the former Soviet republic is at risk of sliding back under the influence of Russia.Comment
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As Moscow moves to assert the Kremlin s authority in response to the Beslan crisis, it is simultaneously pushing for stronger economic and political ties with the former Soviet republics.
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PRAGUE, Dec 19 (IPS) - With the appointment of Yuliya Timoshenko as Prime  Minister of Ukraine, the pro-Western 'Orange' forces  have been granted a second opportunity to prove that their  political programme is stronger than narrow power ambitions.
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Ukraine's President-elect Viktor Yushchenko says it will take time to rebuild relations with Russia.
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Ukraine's opposition candidate for president said Friday whoever wins this weekend's election will enhance the nation's ties to Russia.
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New moves to pressure Ukraine on gas supplies could be driven by Moscow's political agenda, but they could also signal the Russian gas giant's own supply problems
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia wants Ukraine to be Ukraine strong and prosperous.
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The name Ukraine literally means ``at the edge,'' and the world often treated it just that way - as a distant, vaguely noticed expanse overshadowed by Russia to the east and the dynamically developing former ...
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Outcome could tilt the nation toward Moscow or the West. KIEV, UKRAINE Tens of thousands of supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, who is facing Ukraine's prime minister in a tense presidential poll, thronged Kiev's ...
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&quot;There is a feeling that things are starting to swing in favour of the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, both on the streets of Kiev and in the legal and political processes which are going on behind the scenes.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin stood beside Ukraine's pro-Moscow presidential hopeful to review a Soviet-style military spectacle, just days before a tense vote seen as a choice between closer ties with Russia or the West.
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Russia has offered to work with Ukraine's new Western-leaning leader, in an end to its frosty silence over Viktor Yushchenko's election victory.
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The question used to be &quot;Who lost Russia?&quot; In a few years, it may be &quot;Who rebuilt the Soviet empire?&quot;. Ukraine&#39;s presidential election on Sunday could determine whether Russia remains a national state or begins to resurrect its empire.
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MOSCOW -- There are many ways history may judge last month's presidential elections in Ukraine, but in Russia these days the reverberations are most often described with a single word that sounds the same in Russian as in English: &quot;fiasco.&quot;
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Russian President Vladimir Putin stood  beside Ukraine's pro-Moscow presidential hopeful to review a  Soviet-style military spectacle, just days before a tense vote  seen as a choice between closer ties with Russia or the West.
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Ukraine looked ahead to Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko assuming power after he was declared president-elect, with the withdrawal of Kiev's troops from Iraq and strained relations with Russia topping the agenda.
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Ukrainians are preparing for a presidential election that is being seen as a watershed decision as to whether the country should draw closer to Russia or the West.