Viktor Zamiatin

By Viktor Zamiatin, The Day Perhaps I will not exaggerate if I say that politicians’ statements about Ukraine being “doomed” to serve as a buffer between the West and the East, and that its policy must be balanced accordingly, have been run into the ground. In our inimitable Ukrainian way...

NEW FOREIGN MINISTER MAY SAVE UKRAINE’S FACE By Viktor Zamiatin, international observer of The Day Replacement of the Foreign Minister is an event of great importance for any given country and its neighbors. In the case with Ukraine, its...

“A French heart beats faster than words are spoken,” commented Serge Vincon, president of the French Senate’s Commission for International Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces, to Ukrainian journalists on the results of a survey conducted by TNS this year in a number of European countries. The poll...

Last week seemed to confirm that the Orange Revolution has borne its first fruits, as far as European integration is concerned. First the British daily The Guardian and then official Kyiv published the sensational results of a public opinion poll conducted in France, Germany, the UK, Poland, Italy...

Instead of speaking about full or associate EU membership, concentrate on negotiations about signing the Action Plan next year. This was the leitmotif of the meetings European Commissioner for Enlargement Guenter Verheugen (in the photo) held with the Ukrainian leadership — President Leonid Kuchma...

President Leonid Kuchma visited Warsaw where he spoke to Aleksander Kwasniewski and the Secretary General of the European Union Council Javier Solana on completion of the international conference, Ukraine in Europe. His visit gave Ukraine an opportunity, above all, to save face in the eyes of the...

Viktor Zamiatin, The Day Last Friday the Board of the Foreign Ministry saw off ex-Minister Hennady Udovenko to take his seat in Parliament and greeted his successor, Borys Tarasiuk. Mr. Udovenko was thanked for his effective performance by President Kuchma and was awarded the order of...

By Viktor Zamiatin, The Day There was a peculiar coincidence between (a) Richard Morningstar, US Coordinator of Aid to the Newly Independent States, and Carlos Pascuale, NSC Deputy Secretary, visiting Kyiv; (b) several US companies in Ukraine complaining on the impossibility of doing...