Spy, Tycoon, LUKoil Stir Up Polish Politics
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Poland's security service has published notes about a secret meeting between the country's richest man, Jan Kulczyk, and a former Russian spy, in which Kulczyk suggested he had the support of President ...
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From left, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Ukraine&#39;s opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana meet in Kiev, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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The mysterious auctioning off of part of Russia's Yukos oil giant dominates many editorials today. Some papers even point the finger at Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
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WARSAW, Poland Â Poles began voting Sunday in elections pitting the prime minister's nationalists against a pro-business party that wants to bring the country's 900 troops home from Iraq and get more in return for hosting a U.S. missile defense base.
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If Russian businesses are helping fund the election campaign of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s favored candidate in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election at the Kremlin&#39;s behest, as some political analysts suspect, those businesses may be better off betting on the
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OVER the years, Slovakia's presidential elections have surprised analysts by thwarting favoured candidates and catapulting unlikely ones into power.
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KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 27 -- The Orange Revolution, strangely, has been kindest to the man who played the villain to the waves of protesters who rolled onto the streets of  this capital two years ago. Viktor Yanukovych, once cast as the bluff hack who tried to steal Ukraine's presidential election, is...
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PRAGUE, Jan 31 (IPS) - The upcoming visit of newly elected Polish Prime  Minister Donald Tusk to Russia signals a new sense of pragmatism  in Poland's policies.
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Viktor Uspaskich, a Russian-born millionaire who is a new force in Lithuanian politics, makes no secret of his old ties to Russian energy giant Gazprom, which supplies all of Lithuania's gas, but says he has ...
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Speculation over the possible sale of Latvia's strategic oil port to a Russian investor has picked up in recent weeks, with several analysts guessing the likely identity of the buyer.
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As Ukraine's ex-President Leonid Kuchma settles into a comfortable retirement, his future is in the hands of some of his fiercest political enemies, who accuse him of misdeeds ranging from corruption to ordering the murder of a journalist.
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Poland on Friday held out the  possibility it could drop its threat to veto talks on a new  European Union treaty next week, saying compromise was closer  after lobbying by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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PRAGUE, Oct 25 (IPS) - The change of government in Poland heralds a new  era in its cooperation with the European Union, and changes are  also expected in Warsaw's policies towards both Russia and  the United States.
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It is attended by Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine, Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland, Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, OSCE ...
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Misha Kolodiy dyed his hair carrot orange and plastered his black leather jacket with orange stickers - the colour of Ukraine's political opposition.
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Their ties with Kremlin-backed Gazprom are vexing EU efforts to create an energy security policy that would lessen dependence on Russia.
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Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-backed candidate in Ukraine's presidential elections, rose to prominence as governor of the eastern Donetsk coal-mining and industrial region before President Leonid Kuchma ...