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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06BUCHAREST629 |
ROMANIA: DAS KRAMER, AMBASSADOR HODGES - [...] (C) Summary: DAS David Kramer and Ambassador to Moldova Heather Hodges shared views with leading Romanian interlocutors on recent developments involving Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia during a visit to Bucharest on April 3-4. Although Romanian interlocutors described growing strains in [...] |
2006-04-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MD RS BO UP KDEM PHUM RO |
| 06KIEV1022 |
UKRAINE: PARTY OF REGIONS ELECTION STRATEGY: A NEW [...] (C) Summary: Ukrainians and outside observers are currently contemplating the increasing possibility that Party of Regions, led by Viktor Yanukovych, may return to power as part of a coalition emerging from the March 26 elections in which Regions will by all accounts win a plurality (an estim [...] |
2006-03-15 17:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM |
| 06KIEV1055 |
UKRAINE: ZAPORIZHZHYA PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In 2004, the abuse of administrative resources by a coordinated "Blue" power "vertikal" and an extra 100,000 dead souls voting in the city of Melitopol delivered 70 percent of Zaporizhzhya oblast to Viktor Yanukovych. In 2006, the absence of administrative pressure from an "Or [...] |
2006-03-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1108 |
UKRAINE: POSSIBLE ELECTION DAY AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) With Ukraine's pivotal March 26 parliamentary (and local) election day drawing closer, claims by all sides continue that their opponents are abusing or plan to abuse administrative resources to influence election results at various levels. NGOs and international election observation missi [...] |
2006-03-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 06KIEV1154 |
UKRAINE: MARCH 26 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS -- CAN [...] (C) Summary: The March 26 parliamentary elections are lining up to be judged free and fair, despite flaws. The campaign was marred by none (or very, very few) of the Kuchma government behavior that seriously eroded confidence in how the fall 2004 presidential elections would be conducted. Ad [...] |
2006-03-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD |
| 06KIEV1247 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION SNAPSHOT OF SEVERODONETSK, HOST [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in the city of Severodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, site of the infamous November 28, 2004 separatist rally held at the height of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, at which then-PM Yanukovych, many Party of Regions backers from e [...] |
2006-03-29 16:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1639 |
UKRAINE: DNSA CROUCH'S NATO-THEMED DINNER INCLUDES [...] (C) At an April 19 NATO-themed dinner in honor of Deputy National Security Adviser Crouch, Defense Minister Hrytsenko and Foreign Minister Tarasyuk politely disagreed over the attitudes toward NATO of PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko, the Socialist Party, and Party of Regions. They also disagreed [...] |
2006-04-26 08:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1992 |
UKRAINE: FAREWELL CALL ON PM-HOPEFUL TYMOSHENKO ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid his farewell call on PM-aspirant Yuliya Tymoshenko May 24, the day prior to the opening of the new parliament (Rada) May 25. Tymoshenko said she and her team had stayed up "all night" analyzing the completely new coalition proposal Our Ukraine (OU) had sprung on [...] |
2006-05-24 14:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV2651 |
UKRAINE: MOROZ AS SPEAKER; [...] (SBU) Summary: In a maneuver which stunned Our Ukraine (OU) and Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) only hours after they had reached agreement with Party of Regions on a division of responsibilities between the majority and opposition forces in the Rada (parliament) to end Regions' 10-day blockade of the [...] |
2006-07-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2678 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE OPTIONS IN THE WAKE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Presidential Chief of Staff Rybachuk, former PM Tymoshenko, Our Ukraine (OU) Party leaders Roman Bezsmertny and Roman Zvarych, and OU Political Council member and former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh July 8 and Acting Foreign M [...] |
2006-07-10 17:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV2962 |
UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine's relations with NATO in the context of ongoing domestic political roundtable discussions and fading chances for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) invitation at the Riga Summit were discussed in EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) David Kramer's July 28 meetings with Actin [...] |
2006-07-31 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3129 |
UKRAINE: FIRST DEPUTY PM AZAROV COMMITTED TO WTO [...] (C) Summary: First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Azarov told the Ambassador that by the end of 2006, Ukraine would join the WTO. He pledged that the government would have a careful and well-balanced policy in place to deal with Ukraine's large negative trade balance. On the energy situati [...] |
2006-08-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON EFIN MCC UP |
| 06KIEV3130 |
UKRAINE: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE? "ORANGE" MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary. Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, who repeatedly vowed publicly in July that he would never serve under Viktor Yanukovych, revealed his continuing ambivalence in an August 11 press conference to explain why he had remained Interior Minister in Yanukovych's government, stating that [...] |
2006-08-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3425 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE VS BLUE CASE STUDY: THE STRUGGLE [...] (C) Summary. The political struggle between Orange and Blue to define policy and make decisions in a government of uneasy cohabitation will unfold in the coming weeks and months on an issue by issue basis, particularly in areas and ministries currently controlled by "Orange" Ministers loyal t [...] |
2006-09-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3463 |
UKRAINE: A/S FRIED AND PM YANUKOVYCH DISCUSS NATO, [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Fried highlighted USG willingness to work with PM Yanukovych's government and our belief that Ukraine needed to move at a speed it sets towards NATO membership. Fried also stressed the importance of Ukraine developing as an open, democratic, prosperous societ [...] |
2006-09-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG PGOV NATO UP |
| 06KIEV3464 |
UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED VISIT: THE FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: While acknowledging PM Yanukovych's inevitable influence in shaping Ukrainian foreign policy, FM Tarasyuk asserted to EUR A/S Fried during their September 6 dinner that President Yushchenko could still maintain his primacy on foreign policy, as established in the Constitution, b [...] |
2006-09-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MD GG PL UP |
| 06KIEV3489 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON A NATO [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko told the Ambassador that NATO membership was an internal question for the country, but that he was working with PM Yanukovych to make a good case for a MAP during his September 14 visit to Brussels. On energy, if Ukraine could liberalize and diversify the s [...] |
2006-09-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON ENRG UP |
| 06KIEV3552 |
UKRAINE: A/S FRIED'S DISCUSSIONS OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Moroz told A/S Fried the parliament (Rada) had begun work on remaining WTO legislation, but notably made no predictions about when it would pass. Opposition leader Tymoshenko, on the other hand, expected Yanukovych's government to significantly slow down th [...] |
2006-09-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ENRG EPET UP |
| 06KIEV3553 |
UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine-NATO relations was a primary theme in EUR Assistant Secretary Fried's meetings September 6-7 with FM Borys Tarasyuk, Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and PM Viktor Yanukovych. Holdover "orange" Ministers Tarasyuk and Hrytsenko have been the two staunchest advocates [...] |
2006-09-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3569 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ADVANCES RELATIONS WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: While media attention had focused on PM Yanukovych's comments regarding a NATO Membership Action Plan during his September 14 visit to Brussels, MFA European Union Department acting director Dir argued that Yanukovych had made significant statements and substantial progress on EU [...] |
2006-09-18 14:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD EPET EUN UP |
| 06KIEV3570 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO MIFFED ON MAP? KIEV'S REACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the positive dynamics of PM Yanukovych's September 14 visit to NATO HQ (ref A), Yanukovych's declaration that Ukraine was not ready for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) drew swift public complaints from FM Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko September 15, followed by [...] |
2006-09-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3674 |
UKRAINE: NEW PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF READY TO [...] (C) Summary: Newly-appointed head of the Presidential Administration Viktor Baloha told the Ambassador September 19 that he was ready to engage with the U.S. to ensure that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Anti-Corruption Project was a success and was eager to get started [...] |
2006-09-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV3755 |
UKRAINE: ENGAGING THE NEW UKRAINIAN REALITY AFTER [...] (SBU) Note: In preparation for senior-level consideration of our Ukraine policy, this cable assesses the political and economic developments under the new government. 2. (C) Summary. 50 days after Viktor Yanukovych returned to the premiership he vacated in December 2004 in the wake of the [...] |
2006-09-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV3862 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH -- DEFENDER OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych stressed with EUR DAS Kramer and Ambassador October 4 that constitutional reform had created a new governing framework in which Parliament (Rada) established government policy, and President Yushchenko together with Yanukovych and the cabinet of mi [...] |
2006-10-05 07:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06KIEV3866 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE MOVES INTO OPPOSITION - OR NOT [...] (C) Summary: After months of negotiations over whether or not to enter the governing coalition, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine coalition announced October 4 that it would not join the coalition, but would formally join the opposition in parliament. OU's Roman Bezsmertniy told the press [...] |
2006-10-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3905 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH PROMISES CONTINUITY ON WTO, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych assured EUR DAS Kramer and Ambassador October 4 that he would continue to make progress on WTO membership and European and Euro-Atlantic integration. Funding for a NATO information campaign was part of the 2007 draft budget. With the support of t [...] |
2006-10-10 16:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ETRD ENRG EPET OVIP PREL PINR PL |
| 06KIEV3923 |
UKRAINE: WHAT IF FOREIGN MINISTER TARASYUK GOES? [...] (C) Summary: With rumors rife that Foreign Minister Tarasyuk will leave the Cabinet -- either by resigning with his Our Ukraine colleagues or being voted out of his job by the Rada, pundits tout current Presidential Secretariat Deputy Chief of Staff for foreign policy Oleksandr Chaliy as the l [...] |
2006-10-12 14:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO PINR UP |
| 06KIEV400 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SEES POSSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, Presidential Security Policy Adviser and National Security Institute Chairman Volodymyr Horbulin said the electoral list of ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions, [...] |
2006-01-31 16:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV459 |
UKRAINE: EX-ORANGE COALITION TALKING DEAL, BUT [...] (C) Summary: In a February 1 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department head and ex-Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych indicated that President Yushchenko's party was doing increasingly well in the polls, which were showing 20-percent support for Our Ukraine, as opposed to 12-13 per [...] |
2006-02-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV473 |
UKRAINE: EXTREME MAKEOVER FOR THE PARTY OF REGIONS? [...] (C) As part of an effort to transform itself its image into that of a democratic political force, Ukraine's Party of Regions -- long a haven for Donetsk-based mobsters and oligarchs -- is in the midst of an "extreme makeover." The effort enlists the help and advice of veteran K Street politic [...] |
2006-02-03 12:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV579 |
UKRAINE: SOCIALIST LEADER MOROZ ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In a February 13 meeting with Ambassador, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz opined that new Constitutional Court judges would not be selected until after the March 26 parliamentary elections because of concerns that the court would otherwise revisit constitutional reform. Mo [...] |
2006-02-13 15:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV589 |
UKRAINE: PRE-ELECTION PROVINCIAL SNAPSHOT: [...] (SBU) Summary: The north-central province of Chernihiv offers a snapshot of the changed Ukraine and of the fluid political dynamics between the 2004 Presidential contest and the upcoming March parliamentary (Rada) and local elections. In 2004, Chernihiv witnessed heavy administrative resource [...] |
2006-02-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV |
| 06KIEV713 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH STILL BITTER ABOUT THE [...] (C) As of December 2005, Yanukovych still expressed bitterness about what he saw as the December 2004 "putsch" denying him the Presidency, according to Lithuanian Embassy Political Counselor Darius Vitkauskas. Vitkauskas told us February 21 that when the Lithuanian Ambassador saw Yanukovych i [...] |
2006-02-21 14:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06KYIV4063 |
UKRAINE: PREPARATIONS ON TRACK FOR EU SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With just a week to go, the EU and Ukraine are still working to finalize a key document to be initialed at the October 27 Ukraine-EU summit in Helsinki -- a visa facilitation agreement and an associated readmission agreement. Ukrainians are insisting that the provisions of the r [...] |
2006-10-20 16:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD CVIS EUN UP |
| 06KYIV4175 |
UKRAINE: TARASYUK ON COORDINATING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. A tired FM Borys Tarasyuk saw Ambassador late October 31 after returning from Estonia and Finland. He diagrammed the current players in Ukrainian foreign policy formulation, stating that his role as the fulcrum was to prevent encroachment by PM Yanukovych's team onto Presidenti [...] |
2006-11-03 14:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4187 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ON COOPERATION OR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with a confident PM Viktor Yanukovych Nov. 2 to discuss Yanukovych's planned trip to Washington in December and the current domestic political situation. Yanukovych centered the conversation around two options going forward vis-a-vis President Yushchenko - cooper [...] |
2006-11-03 17:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4295 |
UKRAINE: EMBATTLED FM SUPPORTS ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: "Orange" and embattled Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told visiting EUR A/S Fried that the U.S. approach to PM Yanukovych and the Party of Regions coalition was correct, arguing that Yanukovych had changed for the better. He noted that the PM's upcoming U.S. visit, and his des [...] |
2006-11-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4298 |
UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO ON YUSHCHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Hrytsenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that President Yushchenko's remote style interfered with his effectiveness, that PM Yanukovych was the most reasonable of the Regions' team in office and that the U.S. was right to seek to work with [...] |
2006-11-17 15:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4299 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a 40-minute meeting November 17, President Yushchenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried that he was optimistic about making cohabitation work and his ability to move his relationship with PM Yushchenko and his team from coexistence to cooperation. He expressed concern about several [...] |
2006-11-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4302 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH TELLS A/S FRIED: UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that he was determined to bring Ukraine to Europe, meaning the WTO soon, and eventually into the EU and NATO. The latter would take time, both to change currently ambivalent public opinion and also to strengthe [...] |
2006-11-17 16:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4304 |
11/17 WTO UPDATE: UKRAINE MAKES GREAT STRIDES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament made remarkable progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, and has now adopted 12 out of 21 required laws. GOU leaders clearly had given orders to move forward on the legislation, likely in order to help smooth the way for PM Yanukovych's [...] |
2006-11-17 16:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4315 |
EXPLAINING UKRAINE'S BURST OF ENERGY ON WTO [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's recent progress on WTO-related legislation does not mark a shift in GOU policy, but rather demonstrates that fears of the GOU's lack of commitment to prompt WTO accession were overblown. A fortuitous alignment of several political factors may have accelerated the proces [...] |
2006-11-20 15:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4407 |
UKRAINE/POLAND: PM KACZYNSKI'S VISIT SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: Both the Ukrainian and Polish sides hailed the November 15 visit of Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski to Kyiv as a solid sign of continuity in Poland's working relationship with the government of Ukrainian PM Yanukovych. During his one-day visit, Kaczynski met with Yanukovych, Preside [...] |
2006-11-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG PL UP |
| 06KYIV4414 |
UKRAINE: THE HOLODOMOR AND THE POLITICS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In the aftermath of moving commemorations November 25 of the 73rd anniversary of the holodomor ("Great Famine"), Stalin's man-made famine 1932-33 that led to the death of an estimated 5-10 million Ukrainians in Ukraine and the Russian Kuban region, the Rada passed in a single rea [...] |
2006-11-30 16:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4415 |
11/30 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament continued its progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, adopting five additional laws, four of which related to the agricultural sector. Parliament has now adopted 17 out of the 21 required laws. On the eve of PM Yanukovych's [...] |
2006-11-30 16:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4425 |
UKRAINE/RUSSIA: DEFENDING NATIONAL INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary/comment: PM Yanukovych came to office on a campaign promise to improve relations with Russia, but, although he has toned down the rhetoric towards Russia, like his predecessors, he must find the right balance between close ties to Moscow and protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. While [...] |
2006-12-01 14:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4478 |
UKRAINE: STAND BY YOUR MEN: YUSHCHENKO RAISES THE [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko raised the stakes in the accelerating power struggle between his circle and that of PM Yanukovych December 5 by issuing a decree reinforcing Tarasyuk's status as Foreign Minister, notwithstanding the December 1 vote by the Rada to dismiss Tarasyuk. For its [...] |
2006-12-06 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4489 |
UKRAINE: THE RUSSIA FACTOR IN CRIMEA - UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. Discussions with a wide range of contacts in Crimea November 20-22 and officials in Kyiv discounted recent speculation that a return of pro-Russian separatism in Crimea, which posed a real threat to Ukrainian territorial integrity in 1994-95, could be in the cards. However, nearl [...] |
2006-12-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RU UP |
| 06KYIV4491 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK'S LEGAL LIMBO [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Tarasyuk called in EU and NATO ambassadors and charges December 7 to confirm his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He reported that he had filed a suit to block the Rada's move to dismiss him on the basis of three procedural errors. The court would hold [...] |
2006-12-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KYIV4660 |
UKRAINE: MR. PUTIN COMES TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a compressed one-day visit to Kyiv December 22, his first since March 2005 and the second since Ukraine's November-December 2004 Orange Revolution. Putin and Yushchenko met for two-and-a-half hours alone, without notetakers. After the for [...] |
2006-12-27 16:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
| 06KYIV4679 |
UKRAINE: FIGHT OVER NATO/SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE [...] (C) Summary. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on December 29 that more than four million valid signatures had been collected in support of a proposed nationwide referendum on NATO membership and the Single Economic Space (SES), as a result of aggressive pushing from referendum [...] |
2006-12-29 13:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06PARIS2252 |
A/S FRIED DISCUSSES NATO AND FORMER SOVIET SPACE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/S Fried met with French MFA officials to discuss NATO partnerships, Georgia, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Belarus, Russia and Darfur. Fried pressed French officials to remain open to offering Georgia a NATO Membership Action Plan, and noted that French and U.S. analy [...] |
2006-04-06 10:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR RU BE MO |
| 06PRAGUE1524 |
CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. VIEWS ON SECURITY, DEMOCRACY, [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky traveled to Prague December 5-6 to address security issues at the Global Futures Forum. In addition, Dobriansky met with Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar to thank the Czechs for their cooperation with the United [...] |
2006-12-18 08:54:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM HR EZ |
| 06TALLINN1114 |
UKRANIAN PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO VISITS ESTONIA [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Estonia, Ukrainian President Yushchenko emphasized his country's interest in NATO and EU membership, and asked the GOE to send senior officials to Ukraine to explain the benefits of integration. Yushchenko said that a rift between Belarusian President Lukashenk [...] |
2006-12-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP BO EN |
| 06WARSAW2008 |
POLAND'S PKN ORLEN DISCUSSES MAZEIKIU NAFTA, [...] (C) PKN Orlen's (PKNO) Deputy President Cezary Filipowicz requested information from the USG on whether Yukos International is considering a proposal to put the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) refinery shares into escrow to further protect them from Yukos Finance. Poland is attempting to gain support fr [...] |
2006-09-15 14:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ETRD PL AJ KZ RS ES LG LH PREL |
| 07KYIV1027 |
UKRAINE: LITTLE POLITICAL OR LEGAL PROGRESS, BOTH [...] (C) Summary. With President Yushchenko on a one-day trip to Poland April 27 and the ruling coalition trying to decide on its strategy in the face of the new decree ordering Rada elections for June 24, little progress was made on April 27 toward resolving the political crisis. The Constitutiona [...] |
2007-04-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1108 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR DIA DIRECTOR LTG MAPLES [...] (S/REL UP) General Maples: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv at a time of political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictions in a newly-amended constitution [...] |
2007-05-10 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP |
| 07KYIV1133 |
UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS IN THE WIND? HAYDUK [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych resumed meetings to resolve the political impasse May 12 after Yanukovych returned to Ukraine from his Spanish knee surgery; Yushchenko said afterwards that the two would meet again May 16 to agree on the date for early elections. Presidentia [...] |
2007-05-15 03:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV123 |
UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...] |
2007-01-19 05:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP |
| 07KYIV124 |
UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...] |
2007-01-19 05:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1243 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SEGA [...] (SBU) Undersecretary Sega: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. For more than seven weeks Ukraine has been in political turmoil and paralysis as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resol [...] |
2007-05-24 14:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV1244 |
UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Visiting DAS Kramer met with all the key players in the Ukrainian political crisis May 23-24: President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, opposition leaders Yuliya Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko; National Security and Defense Council Secretary Plyushch; and FM Yatsenyuk. Amidst backgrou [...] |
2007-05-25 03:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1300 |
UKRAINE:SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, U.S. ARMY [...] (SBU) General MacKiernan: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. The past couple of months have been marked by political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictio [...] |
2007-05-25 15:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP |
| 07KYIV1305 |
UKRAINE: DEAL FOR SEPTEMBER 30 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After all night discussions, President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz emerged after 4 a.m. May 27 to issue a seven-point joint statement that set early elections for September 30 and aimed to resolve the ongoing political crisis. Reactions ranged from relief [...] |
2007-05-29 10:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1326 |
UKRAINE: RADA CONTINUES TO DRAG HEELS WHILE [...] (C) Summary. Despite frequent meetings between President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, Speaker Moroz, and opposition leader Tymoshenko, the Rada has so far failed to approve the legislation needed to enable early elections on September 30, as agreed to in the May 27 compromise. Many MPs attribut [...] |
2007-05-31 14:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1354 |
UKRAINE: JUNE 4 UPDATE - KYIV QUIET AS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Actions by key political players June 1-2 gave greater cause for optimism that the political compromise announced May 27 is being implemented, although public statements from Prime Minister Yanukovych and Speaker Moroz on June 3-4 suggested that progress may continue to be slow [...] |
2007-06-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1396 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREE FOR SEPT 30 ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko issued a June 5 decree which established pre-term elections September 30 in accordance with the May 27 joint statement between Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Speaker Moroz. Yushchenko delivered a 55-minute address to the diplomatic corps June 6 summarizing [...] |
2007-06-06 13:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV1418 |
UKRAINE: CRIMEA UPDATE - LESS TENSE THAN IN 2006; [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's May 29-30 visit to Simferopol, Crimea and an earlier poloff visit May 17-18, all of our interlocutors agreed that the situation in Crimea appears less tense than it did six months ago (reftels). The primary issues in play remain control/ownership of land; the [...] |
2007-06-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1425 |
UKRAINE: MILITARY EXERCISE LEGISLATION PASSES, SEA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: President Yushchenko signed the annual military exercise authorization bill June 6 and Rada (parliament) passage on May 29. Despite support from PM Yanukovych and most of the Party of Regions (the Rada's largest faction), Socialist and Communist party opposition remai [...] |
2007-06-08 11:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1458 |
UKRAINE: ELECTIONS PROCESS STILL BUMPY [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yanukovych and Party of Regions members are now openly talking about their election preparations and have told us that June 15 will be the last day the Rada is in session. The Rada must still acknowledge the resignations of at least another 72 members of the oppos [...] |
2007-06-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1515 |
UKRAINE: RADA SPUTTERS TO A CLOSE AS ATTENTION [...] (C) Summary. Speaker Moroz closed the Rada's aimless plenary sessions on June 19, clearly under some pressure by Party of Regions leaders and despite earlier vows by Socialists and Communists to continue sessions into July. Moroz read a letter to the Rada written by PM Yanukovych in which the [...] |
2007-06-21 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1522 |
Ukraine: GOU Imposes New Grain Export Limits [...] (U) Summary: As foreshadowed by recent official statements (reftel), Deputy Prime Minister Victor Slauta announced June 20 that the Cabinet of Ministers has made a decision to limit exports of grain, beginning July 1, in order to form a state grain reserve and limit growth in bread prices. Po [...] |
2007-06-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1563 |
UKRAINE: JUNE 27 DOMESTIC POLITICAL SCENE UPDATE - [...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of the long (June 28 Constitution Day) weekend, Ukraine's political scene sputtered slowly forward towards summer holidays and election campaigns. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych spent significant time out of Kyiv, meeting twice at Boryspil airport to discuss [...] |
2007-06-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV196 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS GRAFFY'S FEB 7-12 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes at a time when the struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation passed by Yanukovych's majority in the Rada (p [...] |
2007-01-26 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1968 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH, OTHERS ANALYZE PRE- AND [...] (C) Summary: Key GoU leaders varied on their assessment of the upcoming pre-term elections in their August 1-2 meetings with EUR DAS Kramer but all acknowledged the importance of free and fair elections and the need to resolve tensions that have dominated the domestic political scene since A [...] |
2007-08-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2001 |
UKRAINE: TEN YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ten years after the signing of the NATO-Ukraine Charter and two and a half years after the Orange Revolution, many policy makers and experts in Ukraine and in the West hoped that Ukraine would jump on a fast track to NATO membership. However, today public support for NATO members [...] |
2007-08-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV211 |
UKRAINE: NATO REFERENDUM ON HOLD AFTER [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko's January 26 decision to refer two constitutional articles on holding a referendum to the Constitutional Court for clarification effectively pushes down the road the need to decide whether there will be a referendum on membership in NATO and the Single Economi [...] |
2007-01-29 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO UP |
| 07KYIV223 |
UKRAINE: TARASYUK RESIGNS AS FOREIGN MINISTER, [...] (SBU) Summary. Borys Tarasyuk ended two months of uncertainty and political confrontation over his lame-duck tenure as Ukraine's Foreign Minister by offering his resignation to President Yushchenko January 30, after a district court deferred a decision on his legal challenge to the Rada's Dec [...] |
2007-01-31 16:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
| 07KYIV2290 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE DISCOURAGED FROM THE TOP DOWN [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, and members of the bloc's regional headquarters show a political movement struggling to keep pace with the more aggressive Tymoshenko Bloc. Lutsenko and Mrs. Yushc [...] |
2007-09-13 10:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2479 |
UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER 30 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS A [...] (C) Summary. Ukrainians will go to the polls on September 30 -- for the fifth time in the past three years -- to elect a new parliament, and attempt to end the political deadlock that has gripped this country since President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dissolving the Rada. With the polls show [...] |
2007-09-27 14:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2498 |
UKRAINE: PARTIES LAY OUT CONCERNS, PLANS ON EVE OF [...] (C) Summary. As the campaign comes to a halt September 28 at midnight, all three major parties -- Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense, BYuT, and Party of Regions -- have laid out their final positions, telling international observers that they will abide by any election results that the internat [...] |
2007-09-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2501 |
UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: A NEW ORANGE COALITION COULD [...] (C) Summary: A renewed "orange coalition" could potentially capture enough Rada seats to form the new government, according to several nationwide exit polls. As of noon October 1, counting continues and the Central Election Commission (CEC) has posted about 54% of the results, although there [...] |
2007-10-01 07:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2508 |
UKRAINE: ALL SIDES WAIT WHILE ELECTIONS SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. As votes continued to trickle into the Central Election Commission on October 2, parties remained for the most part constrained, holding off on both court challenges and coalition negotiations until the final count is announced. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted by 5 [...] |
2007-10-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2517 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CALLS FOR PARTIES TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. With less than one half of one percent of the vote still uncounted, the political parties are starting to slowly extend feelers on various coalition formations. President Yushchenko made the biggest stir of the day by holding a press conference in which he called on all the parti [...] |
2007-10-03 13:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2522 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH SUGGESTS REGIONS WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) Summary: PM Yanukovych told the Ambassador October 3 that Regions had the right to form the government as the party with the most votes and was willing to negotiate with all of the parties to form a coalition, but that it could not accept an orange coalition and government. According to Y [...] |
2007-10-04 13:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2546 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR QUICK COALITION [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko has tried to jump start negotiations on forming a new governing coalition by calling all five political forces represented in the new Rada to a meeting October 8 and instructing them to submit proposals on the prime minister and coalition within five days. He [...] |
2007-10-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2634 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT AND OU-PSD [...] (C) Summary. Leader of Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc Yuriy Lutsenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Roman Bezsmertniy told the Ambassador in separate SIPDIS meetings October 16 that OU-PSD and President Yushchenko would support an orange coalition and Tymoshenko to [...] |
2007-10-17 12:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2713 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND TYMOSHENKO WAIT FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Yanukovych and his potential successor, Yuliya Tymoshenko, met separately October 24-26 with Colin Powell and Richard Holbrooke, both of whom were in Kyiv to deliver speeches at the invitation of the Pinchuk Foundation, established by businessman and Kuchma son-in-la [...] |
2007-10-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2744 |
UKRAINE: RADA PREPARATIONS SLOWLY ADVANCING [...] (C) Summary. The process of preparing to seat the new Rada is moving forward slowly, while fissures in the orange coalition continue to appear even before it has officially become a coalition. As required by law, the Central Election Commission is now registering MPs and all five factions h [...] |
2007-11-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV283 |
UKRAINE: OLD FACES, PRACTICES RETURN TO MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary. Since the ouster of outspoken "orange" Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko December 1 and the appointment of compliant Vasyl Tsushko in his place, some old faces and practices from the pre-Orange Revolution era have returned to the Ministry and police. Of note were the appointments [...] |
2007-02-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV2833 |
UKRAINE: ODDS MOUNTING AGAINST A TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) Summary: After visiting EUR DAS Kramer's series of meetings with top Ukrainian political figures, it is clear that the path to the premiership for Yuliya Tymoshenko will be difficult and is still far from certain. Presidential Administration head Baloha said that he was "101%" certain tha [...] |
2007-11-16 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2858 |
UKRAINE: PREPARING FOR THE NATO BUCHAREST SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. We need to engage now with Ukraine to craft a role for this important partner at the April 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest even as Ukrainian political forces are focused on building a coalition and forming a new government. While President Yushchenko, FM Yatsenyuk, and Minister of [...] |
2007-11-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2892 |
UKRAINE: DNIPROENERGO - AN EXAMPLE OF INTRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and a key financial sponsor of the Party of Regions, recently acquired 40 percent ownership in financially troubled Dniproenergo, a large power generation company, through a controversial share issuance. Most observers believe that Akhmetov [...] |
2007-11-26 13:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON UP |
| 07KYIV2967 |
UKRAINE: GETTING TO GOVERNMENT - ORANGE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: After a day of parliamentary maneuvering, the orange coalition parties of Yuliya Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko mustered a slim-227 majority vote to elect 33-year old Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the Speaker of the Rada. The successful vote showed that the coalition i [...] |
2007-12-05 13:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV3086 |
UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO ELECTED AS PM; NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: After several weeks of debate and uncertainty, the orange coalition came together and confirmed Yuliya Tymoshenko as the new prime minister of Ukraine on December 18. Tymoshenko was confirmed with 226 votes, the minimum number of votes necessary in the 450-member Rada. Only MPs f [...] |
2007-12-18 13:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV315 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Gates, your meeting with President Yushchenko at Wehrkunde next week comes at a time when the struggle between Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation [...] |
2007-02-07 15:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR UP |
| 07KYIV3157 |
UKRAINE: SHAPING OUR MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Prime Minister Tymoshenko's government has begun delineating its internal setup/workflow and the structures and processes for interacting with the President's team and parliamentary opposition. In turn, President Yushchenko is pushing forward his own initiatives aime [...] |
2007-12-27 11:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UP |
| 07KYIV331 |
2/9 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: KYRGYZ BILAT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine must sign one more bilateral Market Access Agreement, with Kyrgyzstan, as part of its accession to the WTO. Erkin Mamkulov, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Ukraine, told us that resolution of USD 27 million worth of debt, owed by Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan, is the critical remaining issue [...] |
2007-02-09 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP KG |
| 07KYIV332 |
UKRAINE: EU TROIKA MEETING LAUNCHES ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: A February 6 EU Troika meeting in Kyiv marked the launch of a new enhanced Partnership and Cooperative Agreement intended to strengthen economic and political ties - responding to a Ukrainian push for a new kind of partnership and closer ties to the EU. The first meeting of a Wor [...] |
2007-02-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV452 |
UKRAINE: RADA REJECTS FM/SBU NOMINEES IN ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Party of Regions-led Rada majority on February 22 rejected presidential nominees for Foreign Minister and Security Service (SBU) Chief in what appears to be the latest skirmish between the President and Prime Minister in the long-running struggle for power. Presidential Secre [...] |
2007-02-22 16:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV467 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko arrives in the U.S. at a time when the feuding and deal-making between Ukraine's three major political forces is hamstringing policy-making and legislating. The struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance an [...] |
2007-02-23 15:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV540 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH LOBBIES EUROPE VIA BERLIN [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to gain public support from Germany for his government's goal of promoting Ukraine's integration with Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych made a one-day working visit February 28 to Berlin, meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and addressing a group of German [...] |
2007-03-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN GM UP |
| 07KYIV546 |
UKRAINE: ENGAGING UKRAINE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: We passed reftel points and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director LTG Obering's powerpoint presentation to MOD and MFA officials February 26-28. Ambassador's February 21 conversation with Presidential adviser, preeminent Ukrainian strategic thinker, and former rocket scientist Vo [...] |
2007-03-07 09:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL EZ UP |
| 07KYIV642 |
UKRAINE: LUTSENKO RAIDED, INTERROGATED BY [...] (SBU) Summary: On a busy political day that heralded a potential tectonic shift in the basic blue-orange divide in Ukrainian politics, which has existed since the November-December 2004 Orange Revolution (septel), a Prosecutor General Office (PGO) investigative team launched a seven- hour se [...] |
2007-03-20 17:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV643 |
UKRAINE: ALLIANCE SHIFTS - BROAD COALITION IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Internal friction inside both the opposition and the majority coalition came to a head March 20 with the latest failed vote to approve a foreign minister seeming to spark a realignment of political forces in Ukrainian politics. The morning began with parts of the coalition seemin [...] |
2007-03-20 17:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV687 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH DECRIES OPPOSITION'S [...] (C) Summary. Although disappointed by President Yushchenko's continued rebuffs to his invitations to work together, PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, NSC Director Adam Sterling and the Ambassador that he remained open to a broad coalition in parliament and cooperation. Yanu [...] |
2007-03-23 15:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV757 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT-PM NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE; [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych's late-night March 29 meeting ended without agreement, with the PM's team pushing for a "gentleman's agreement" and the President's advisors arguing for a written, negotiated "rules of the game" to resolve the political conflict over the c [...] |
2007-03-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV784 |
UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER RADA DISMISSAL [...] (C) Summary: Justifying his April 2 decree dismissing the Rada (parliament) and calling pre-term elections for May 27, President Yushchenko told G-7 ambassadors April 3 that new elections were a democratic instrument to resolve a political crisis that stemmed from a parliamentary crisis. The [...] |
2007-04-03 13:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR UP |
| 07KYIV789 |
UKRAINE: INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION: NO CLEAR [...] Summary and Comment. As Ukraine's political crisis proceeds, both sides argue that they have the constitutional and legal upperhand and are acting in support of democracy and the rule of law. President Yushchenko has dismissed the Rada, and his team maintains the Rada's powers have been curt [...] |
2007-04-04 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV790 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S CALL FOR MAY 27 PRE-TERM [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, after several days of tense negotiations and peaceful street demonstrations, President Yushchenko announced his intention to dissolve the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and set May 27 as the date for new elections; his decree was officially promulgated April 3. On Ap [...] |
2007-04-04 16:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV823 |
UKRAINE: RADA PASSES ANNUAL MILITARY EXERCISE [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian parliament (Rada) passed the annual exercise authorization legislation April 6, two days after rejecting it. Two U.S. exercises -- Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze -- are included in the authorization, as is one Ukrainian-Russian exercise. Yushchenko now has 15 days to sign [...] |
2007-04-06 14:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MASS PREL UP |
| 07KYIV853 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND YUSHCHENKO AGREE EU [...] (C) Summary: During his March 27 visit to Brussels, PM Yanukovych said he wanted Ukraine to adopt a long-term strategy for EU membership and thanked his interlocutors for their help so far. Echoing President Yushchenko's earlier comments, Yanukovych urged the incorporation of a reference to U [...] |
2007-04-11 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN UP |
| 07KYIV89 |
UKRAINE: POWER PLAY - PM YANUKOVYCH DROPS [...] (C) Summary. After a pleasant January 10 meeting between President Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz aimed at starting 2007 on a more cooperative note, Ukraine's political dynamics took another unexpected turn January 12, with Regions abandoning cooperation with Yu [...] |
2007-01-12 16:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV929 |
UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PROCEEDINGS RESUME [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional Court deliberations of the constitutionality of President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections resumed April 18 after a brief delay caused by opposition efforts to impede access to the court. Opposition leaders Tymoshenko, Ky [...] |
2007-04-18 14:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV960 |
UKRAINE: POLITICAL COMPROMISE SOUGHT AS COURT [...] (C) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych appeared to inch closer to a political compromise, proceedings in the Constitutional Court (CC) April 20-23 indicated that the hearings will probably continue right up to the May 1 holiday. Following a lengthy closed-door Apri [...] |
2007-04-23 14:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV975 |
UKRAINE: COURT CASE MOVING ALONG SLOWLY, KYIV QUIET [...] (C) Summary. Major political forces in Kyiv were relatively quiet on April 24 with all eyes still on the Constitutional Court where the Cabinet of Ministers representative Nimchenko continued to present the coalition's case. Echoing the presentation of Rada representatives, Nimchenko argued t [...] |
2007-04-24 15:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV988 |
UKRAINE: COURT WRAPPING UP OPEN HEARINGS AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court moved into the closed deliberation phase late on April 25, amid rumors that a judgment was expected by the end of Friday April 27 (although others predict a later decision after the May 1-9 holidays). Court deliberations April 24 had concluded late in [...] |
2007-04-25 14:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07VIENNA919 |
UKRAINIAN PM YANUKOVYCH ASKS AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR [...] (U) Austrian media has prominently reported on Ukrainian Prime Minister Yanukovych's April 5 news conference, in which he announced that he had asked Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer to mediate the political crisis in Ukraine. Austrian press reports quoted Yanukovych as pointing to Austr [...] |
2007-04-06 11:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UP |
| 08KYIV1300 |
UKRAINE: YATSENYUK, RISING POLITICIAN [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk has become one of the most interesting senior politicians in Ukraine to watch. Only 34 years old, Yatsenyuk has already served not only as chair of the parliament, but Foreign Minister, Minister of Economy, and Acting Governor of the National Bank. [...] |
2008-07-03 14:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 08KYIV1510 |
UKRAINE: VISIT OF PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW SPURS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodoxy, arrived in Ukraine on July 24 for a five day visit to celebrate the 1,020th anniversary of the christianization of the Kyivan Rus. Although he has no jurisdiction over other Orthodox patria [...] |
2008-08-04 14:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UP |
| 08KYIV756 |
UKRAINE: NO SPLIT IN PARTY OF REGIONS EXPECTED - [...] (C) Summary. Although tensions exist between the Akhmetov and Yanukovych wings of the Party of Regions, the party shows no immediate signs of splitting. Moreover, by taking a stand against a NATO MAP for Ukraine at the Bucharest Summit and playing on rumors of possible Rada elections in late [...] |
2008-04-15 07:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 08KYIV874 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO/TYMOSHENKO RIVALRY HITS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU's ambitious privatization plans have fallen victim to the political rivalry between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko (Refs A and B). Following the latest iteration of their drawn out privatization battle characterized by dueling decrees, court rulings [...] |
2008-05-08 08:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD EIND UP |
| 08KYIV954 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO GETS HIS CABMIN LAW [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko won a tactical victory on May 16, when Prime Minister Tymoshenko's faction in the parliament backed down after a week's stand-off and agreed to vote for the new law on the Cabinet of Ministers, which the President has been pushing for since December. Yushchen [...] |
2008-05-20 11:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 09KYIV692 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Your April 26-28 visit to Kyiv comes in the midst of Ukraine's unfolding economic and financial crisis. The IMF has recently concluded its mission review, recommending disbursement of a second loan tranche that had been delayed for two months. The agreement with the IMF is a major acc [...] |
2009-04-22 13:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV ECON PREL UP |