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FT: Kiev debt costs rise over Moscow worries
The cost of insuring Ukraine’s debt against restructuring or default rose to its highest since the 2004 Orange Revolution on Tuesday, as investors fretted that the Kremlin’s spat with the west could spill over into a vast country of 46m people that straddles the divide between a resurgent Russia and the European Union. →
New York Times: Europe Wonders if It Can Square Its Need for Russia With a Distaste for Putin
PARIS — As NATO foreign ministers gather Tuesday for an emergency meeting on the Georgian crisis, Europe is divided over how to balance its ties to Russia with concerns over the country’s new aggressiveness. →
New York Times: Europe Wonders if It Can Square Its Need for Russia With a Distaste for Putin
PARIS — As NATO foreign ministers gather Tuesday for an emergency meeting on the Georgian crisis, Europe is divided over how to balance its ties to Russia with concerns over the country’s new aggressiveness.
The European dilemma is clear, said Clifford Kupchan, a director of the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm in Washington. “How do they square their increasing energy dependence on Russia with their increasing political discomfort with Putin?” he said, referring to Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin. “It’s a very hard circle to square.”
Fitch sees worse threats to Ukraine than Russia row
By Peter Apps
LONDON, August 15 (Reuters) - Credit ratings agency Fitch does not yet see rising tension with Russia as a major threat to Ukraine’s creditworthiness, it said on Friday, but remains concerned about a series of stresses in the Ukrainian economy.
The aftermath of conflict between Georgia and Russia has seen a deepening row between Ukraine and its larger neighbour over the use of a Ukrainian port by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, prompting investors to price its debt as riskier.
“It’s not one of our key worries for the rating at this stage,” Fitch director of emerging Europe sovereigns Andrew Colquhoun. “We are more worried about the current account deficit, rising external debt levels and inflation.”
Digest: South Ossetia Conflict Holds Lessons for Kyiv
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS: By Steven Pifer
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 1998-2000.
Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFL-RL)
Washington, D.C., Friday, August 15, 2008
Public Initiative: “Army of Liars”
On Saturday, August 16 2008, from 18 till 19 pm dramatized march “Army of Liars” will take place in the center of Kyiv. Participants aim to attract Ukrainian and international public attention to the problem of disinformation in highlighting of the war in Georgia by Russian mass media. →
Заява: Коментар Прес-служби МЗС України про події в Грузії
This post will probably be in English soon. Now you can read it in Ukrainian - Українська.
Analytics: Russia won informational war in Ukraine
Ukraine is losing ground
More than half of the sources cited by Ukrainian Internet new sites in their coverage of the Georgian conflict are Russian. The situation is similar with very few non-Russian sources in Ukraine television news. TV remains the main news source for most Ukrainians. →
Public Initiative: Ukrainian Help Centre for Georgia
Public Initiative: Civic centre for humanitarian aid for Georgia launched in Kyiv →