As the presidential electoral race kicked off in Ukraine last week, both frontrunners pledged to revive severed ties with Moscow. While Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko promised a new phase of � ���"equal and honorable� �� � relations with the Kremlin in her opening speech on October 24, Party of the Regions leader Viktor Yanukovich said that renewing � ���"a fully-fledged partnership with Russia� �� � was his foreign policy priority. |
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Andreas Umland, CertTransl (Leipzig), MA (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge).
Visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution (
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