Новини. FT: Chernomyrdin to be envoy in Kiev
05/12/2001 | НеДохтор
Чарльз Кловер із Financial Times, котрий вже одного разу серйозно опозорився, подаючи невірну інформацію про Ющенка (http://www.pravda.com.ua/?10424-2-8)
продовжує працювати і висвітлювати події в Україні:
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010511001517&query=Chernomyrdin#docAnchor010511001517
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WORLD NEWS - EUROPE: Chernomyrdin to be envoy in Kiev
Financial Times; May 11, 2001
By CHARLES CLOVER
Victor Chernomyrdin, former Russian prime minister, has been appointed Moscow's ambassador and special presidential representative to Ukraine, in a step expected to strengthen Russian influence in the former Soviet republic.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, announced the appointment yesterday, saying: "The time has come to get serious about our relations with Ukraine, one of Russia's main partners."
In addition to serving as prime minister for five years, Mr Chernomyrdin was creator and is still thought to be a big shareholder in Russia's largest company, Gazprom, the 38 per cent state-owned gas monopoly, which is owed Dollars 1.4bn-Dollars 2bn by Ukraine.
Mr Chernomyrdin will probably take the lead in negotiations over Russia's participation in privatisation of Ukraine's gas pipeline network, which handles all of Russia's gas exports to Europe, and in resolving Ukraine's debt to Gazprom, two issues which Moscow would like to see linked.
Many Ukrainians have sought to distance their country from Moscow's orbit since independence in 1991, but since Mr Putin took over as president last year, Russia has stepped up pressure on its southern neighbour to rebuild ties.
Vladimir Averchev, formerly a member of the Russian lower house of parliament's international relations committee, said that Mr Chernomyrdin's political stature and ties to Gazprom meant that it was likely he would be able to act as a power-broker in Ukraine, whose economy remains 80 per cent dependent on imported oil and natural gas from Russia. "It is clear that he will be regarded not only as an ambassador but as a figure with far more resources and abilities to solve problems."
"Mr Chernomyrdin's appointment means that Russian interests will be much more strongly represented in our country," said Mykola Tomenko, a Kiev political scientist.
Copyright: The Financial Times Limited
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продовжує працювати і висвітлювати події в Україні:
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010511001517&query=Chernomyrdin#docAnchor010511001517
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WORLD NEWS - EUROPE: Chernomyrdin to be envoy in Kiev
Financial Times; May 11, 2001
By CHARLES CLOVER
Victor Chernomyrdin, former Russian prime minister, has been appointed Moscow's ambassador and special presidential representative to Ukraine, in a step expected to strengthen Russian influence in the former Soviet republic.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, announced the appointment yesterday, saying: "The time has come to get serious about our relations with Ukraine, one of Russia's main partners."
In addition to serving as prime minister for five years, Mr Chernomyrdin was creator and is still thought to be a big shareholder in Russia's largest company, Gazprom, the 38 per cent state-owned gas monopoly, which is owed Dollars 1.4bn-Dollars 2bn by Ukraine.
Mr Chernomyrdin will probably take the lead in negotiations over Russia's participation in privatisation of Ukraine's gas pipeline network, which handles all of Russia's gas exports to Europe, and in resolving Ukraine's debt to Gazprom, two issues which Moscow would like to see linked.
Many Ukrainians have sought to distance their country from Moscow's orbit since independence in 1991, but since Mr Putin took over as president last year, Russia has stepped up pressure on its southern neighbour to rebuild ties.
Vladimir Averchev, formerly a member of the Russian lower house of parliament's international relations committee, said that Mr Chernomyrdin's political stature and ties to Gazprom meant that it was likely he would be able to act as a power-broker in Ukraine, whose economy remains 80 per cent dependent on imported oil and natural gas from Russia. "It is clear that he will be regarded not only as an ambassador but as a figure with far more resources and abilities to solve problems."
"Mr Chernomyrdin's appointment means that Russian interests will be much more strongly represented in our country," said Mykola Tomenko, a Kiev political scientist.
Copyright: The Financial Times Limited
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