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By breaking the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Russia, Kyiv gave Moscow a free hand. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik expressed this opinion on the NewsOne channel, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. “We gave a pass to Russia. Now she has in her hands a torn Great Treaty, on which many other treaties of socio-economic, legal and any other nature are based; these are industry...
Having torn up the Great Treaty with Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko exchanged the issue of recognition of state borders for the Euro-Atlantic course in the Ukrainian Constitution. Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov stated this on Channel One, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, this Great Treaty was beneficial, first of all, to Ukraine. That is why it was perceived so painfully in Russia in the 90s, of course...
After Ukraine broke the treaty of friendship and cooperation, Russia received the full right to recognize the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics. Bogdan Bezpalko, a member of the Council on Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “How can this agreement be respected when the Ukrainian parliament recognized our side as the “aggressor” several years ago? When…
The Verkhovna Rada officially terminated the agreement “On Friendship and Cooperation with the Russian Federation” - the so-called “Big Treaty”, by signing which in the late 1990s, Russia agreed to the Ukrainian status of Crimea in exchange for the neutral status of Ukraine and respect for the rights of the Russian-speaking population, the correspondent reports “ PolitNavigator". Presenting the bill, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Sergei Kislitsa said that the continuation of the Treaty “On Friendship...
Ukraine should not terminate the treaty with Russia, which defines Azov as an internal sea of both countries. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Elena Zerkal and representative of the Soros Renaissance Foundation Taras Kachka write about this today in the Kiev publication “Zerkalo Nedeli”. “A hasty rupture of agreements with Russia may rather create problems than stop the violation of Ukraine’s sovereign rights. It's like...
The prospect of breaking the Great Treaty between Ukraine and the Russian Federation looks like a mediocre adventure by President Petro Poroshenko with catastrophic consequences. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Zhuravko spoke about this on the News-Font channel, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “[The termination of the Great Treaty will create] very big problems in Ukraine. From borders to defining what Ukraine really is. If he [Poroshenko]...
By refusing to extend the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, Ukraine will only help Russia by relieving it of the burden of responsibility. This opinion was expressed on the Rossiya-1 channel by Bogdan Bezpalko, a member of the Council on Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Refusal to prolong or denounce it does not matter. Its term (Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between...
President Petro Poroshenko plans to convene a meeting of the Security Council in the near future to inform Russia by September 30 about the termination of the treaty of friendship and cooperation. Poroshenko announced this today during a meeting with the leaders of parliamentary factions and groups on the eve of the start of the new political season in the Verkhovna Rada. Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between the Russian Federation...
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is already preparing a package of documents necessary to begin the process of terminating the so-called Grand Treaty, that is, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Petro Poroshenko announced this at today’s meeting with Ukrainian diplomats. “Today we have come sufficiently prepared and legally protected to...
Often making mutually exclusive and paradoxical decisions, the current Kiev government is stalling the situation, trying to maintain the current status quo. Spiridon Kilinkarov, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of previous convocations from the Communist Party, stated this on the air of the talk show “Meeting Place” on the Russian NTV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On the one hand, recognize the country as an “aggressor”, and on the other, say that we will not...
If Ukraine breaks the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with the Russian Federation, then Kyiv needs to be prepared to lose not only Crimea, but also Transcarpathia and, possibly, other territories that are not considered historically Ukrainian. International political scientist Oleg Voloshin stated this on TV channel 112, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the borders of post-Soviet Ukraine are determined only by this...
After the termination of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Russia and Ukraine, the latter will lose recognition of its borders and all neighboring states can take advantage of this to make territorial claims against it. This was stated on TV channel 112 by ex-Kyiv City Council deputy and media tycoon Dmitry Gordon, who in the past actively supported Euromaidan, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. According to him, after...
Deputies of the Lviv Regional Council adopted an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the President with a proposal to denounce the so-called. “Great Treaty” on friendship and cooperation with Russia. The corresponding decision was made at the session on Tuesday. Subscribe to the PolitNavigator-Kyiv news on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The decision of the Lviv deputies was sharply criticized by the Kiev lawyer Ivan Makar, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. “And after that someone will say that there...
