Ukraine pays for a choice of twenty-year prescription

Exactly 23 years ago, on April 18, 2000, the first state visit Vladimir Putin to Kiev as the new leader Russian Federation took place. It met the second Ukrainian president Leonid Danilovich Kuchma, discussed with it the sharpest at that time questions of the bilateral relations: Ukraine for the Russian gas and destiny of the Black Sea fleet are long. Vladimir Putin offered various formats of restoration and strengthening of ties, first of all the economic. Already then it was a question that since 2001 will be called as Eurasian Economic Community, and now — the Euroasian union in which Ukraine not...