Parliament voted Tuesday to approve guidelines for drafting Ukraine’s 2013 budget, stipulating that it must be based on President Viktor Yanukovych’s initiatives and the government’s five-year economic reform program.

  CHICAGO, USA -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), at a summit in Chicago, expressed concern about selective justice and politically motivated prosecutions in Ukraine, sending a strong message to President Viktor Yanukovych.

The European integration of Ukraine was one of the key issues discussed during the meetings of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at the NATO summit in Chicago.

  Bankova Street’s hopes to manipulate the EU have crashed. Europe has let Ukraine know that it cannot integrate with its current government, but the issue of an efficient alternative remains open It is becoming increasingly clear that Bankova Street's[1] hopes to turn the Euro 2012 championship into proof of its “European character” and a trump card for its election campaign are going to fail. Europe will do everything possible to clearly and unambiguously show Ukrainians that their current government is what is driving the country into isolation. 

Hats off to the Regionnaires for pulling off the impossible! The Euro 2012 soccer games in Ukraine and Poland seemed like a sure bet. Infrastructure would be built, tourists would come, and Ukraine’s economy—and image—would get a boost. True, it was likely that the democratic opposition would take advantage of the games to publicize its plight, but that seemed like a potentially minor disruption of a public relations coup for President Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions regime.