Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
October 2010 - Ukraine Special Weapons News
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- Russia ready to discuss training Ukrainian astronauts RIA Novosti 28 Oct 2010 -- Russia is ready to consider training Ukrainian astronauts as soon as it gets an official request from Kiev.
- Russia, Ukraine sign agreement on nuclear fuel plant construction RIA Novosti 28 Oct 2010 -- Russian fuel company TVEL and Ukrainian state concern Nuclear Fuel signed an agreement on the construction of a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine.
- Russia may grant Ukraine access to Glonass for military use RIA Novosti 27 Oct 2010 -- Russia is ready to consider giving Ukraine access to high-precision targeting signals provided by the Glonass system.
- Russia, Ukraine sign agreement on nuclear fuel plant construction RIA Novosti 27 Oct 2010 -- Russian fuel company TVEL and Ukrainian state concern Nuclear Fuel signed an agreement on the construction of a nuclear fuel plant.
- Russia, Ukraine to sign deal on aircraft, nuclear power RIA Novosti 25 Oct 2010 -- Russia and Ukraine will sign agreements on aircraft construction and nuclear power joint ventures.
- EU Serves Warning To Ukraine Over Democracy RFE/RL 21 Oct 2010 -- The EU has ratcheted up pressure on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to reverse what appears to be an intensifying crackdown against independent media and opposition ahead of local elections on October 31.
- Russia, Ukraine to regulate size of the Black Sea Fleet RIA Novosti 20 Oct 2010 -- Moscow and Kiev will soon sign an agreement regulating the upcoming overhaul of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the Russian defense minister said on Wednesday.
- Belarus, Ukraine to hold joint peacekeeping drills RIA Novosti 19 Oct 2010 -- Belarus and Ukraine will hold joint tactical drills on October 19-22 at Yavorovo Range in western Ukraine, the Belarusian Defense Ministry reported.
- Tymoshenko vows to stop Russian gaining official status in Ukraine RIA Novosti 17 Oct 2010 -- Ukraine’s former premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, said on Sunday that her opposition fraction would do everything it could do to stop the Russian language gaining official status in the former Soviet state.
- International Auditors Say Former Ukrainian Government Misused Funds RFE/RL 14 Oct 2010 -- An international audit alleges that the government of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko misappropriated more than $400 million.
- Ex-U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine Says Democratic 'Space May Be Shrinking' RFE/RL 13 Oct 2010 -- A recent public opinion poll by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) found that a majority of Ukrainians are either concerned or alarmed about reversals of democratic rights and freedoms under President Viktor Yanukovych. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service director, Irena Chalupa, spoke to Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 1998-2000, about the state of Ukrainian democracy.
- Ukrainian parliament votes for equal presidential, lawmaker terms RIA Novosti 08 Oct 2010 -- Ukraine's parliament has voted to amend the country's constitution to make the presidential term of office the same as the amount of time a deputy is elected for - 5 years.
- Russia, Ukraine to set up uranium enrichment JV - Rosatom RIA Novosti 08 Oct 2010 -- Moscow and Kiev intend to establish a Russia-based joint venture on uranium enrichment, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Friday.
- Ukraine parliament backs 2004 reform reversal RIA Novosti 06 Oct 2010 -- Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday voted to support a recent decision to reverse a 2004 reform that curbed presidential powers.
- Ukraine's Antonov aircraft producer to compete for multi-billion U.S. tanker tender RIA Novosti 04 Oct 2010 -- Ukraine's state-run Antonov aircraft producer will compete with U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Europe's EADS in a multi-billion tender to supply almost 180 airborne refueling tankers to the United States Air Force (USAF), Antonov's President and General Designer Dmitry Kiva said on Monday.
- Ukrainian opposition demands dismissal of entire Constitutional Court RIA Novosti 04 Oct 2010 -- The Ukrainian opposition has demanded the dismissal of all judges in the country's constitutional court, a spokesman for the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc told journalists on Monday.
- Ukraine's top court scraps law cutting president's powers RIA Novosti 01 Oct 2010 -- The Ukrainian Constitutional Court has ruled that the 2004 constitutional reform was adopted in breach of the constitution.
- Ukraine Court Bolsters Presidential Powers RFE/RL 01 Oct 2010 -- Constitutional Court handed President Yanukovych a major victory, ruling that parliament violated the constitution at the height of the Orange Revolution.
