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- Putin Clears New Baltic Pipeline to Cut Oil Transit
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed on Monday a decree ordering the construction of a new oil pipeline to the Baltic Sea, designed to further cut exports of Russian crude via Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. The government said on its website Putin
- Germany rejects US plans over Georgia, Ukraine NATO membership
The German government rejected American plans to accelerate the NATO membership process of Georgia and Ukraine ahead of this week's meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. Addressing the press in Berlin on Monday, German Foreign Ministry spokesman
- NATO allies struggle for solution to Ukraine, Georgia accession
BRUSSELS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- How to proceed with Ukraine's and Georgia's accession to NATO will dominate the agenda of a two-day NATO foreign ministers' meeting after it became clear that a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for the two countries is out of the
- Orga Systems Chosen By Ukraine's Astelit
TMCnet Contributing Editor Datelined ?Paderborn, Germany/ Kiev, Ukraine? comes the news that Ukrainian operator Astelit has selected Orga Systems? (News - Alert) charging and billing system, OPSC Gold. The Orga system was chosen by the Astelitians
- U.S. to press NATO for Georgia, Ukraine boost
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States will urge NATO on Tuesday to encourage Georgia and Ukraine to join the military alliance after European nations derailed President George W. Bush's bid to put them on the track to membership. Bush, who hands over to
- Long road
Nato is not ready to take in Ukraine and post-war Georgia
- Outsourcing to Ukraine
Ukraine, an Eastern European country, has been an attractive emerging market for foreign investors. Despite domestic financial crisis, the country has seen $6.9 billion FDI in the first half of 2008, which is comparatively 170 percent more than the
- Crisis in South Asia May Overshadow NATO Talks
Concerns over the crisis caused by the terrorist attacks in India may overshadow NATO talks this week on drawing Georgia and Ukraine closer to the alliance, officials said Monday. NATO nations are worried that rising tensions between India and Pakistan,
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Richly endowed in natural resources, Ukraine has been fought over and subjugated for centuries; its 20th-century struggle for liberty is not yet complete. A short-lived independence from Russia (1917-1920) was followed by brutal Soviet rule that engineered two artificial famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died, and World War II, in which German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 million more deaths. Although independence was attained in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, true freedom remains elusive as many of the former Soviet elite remain entrenched, stalling efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civic liberties.
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