\u201cBecause of\u201d the clashes outside the Ukrainian parliament, analytics from NSDC point out they attention of Western media towards Ukraine has arisen. \u0432\u0430\u0433\u0430 \u0437\u0430\u0445\u0456\u0434\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u043c\u0435\u0434\u0456\u0430 \u0434\u043e \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438 \u0437\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0443 \u0437\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0430, \u0437\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0442\u0430\u044e\u0442\u044c \u0443\u0432\u0430\u0433\u0443 \u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0456\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0438 Lots of articles about the protest near the Verkhovna Rada underlined it wasn\u2019t similar to Maidan protest as it did not have political demands. Meanwhile, the information about the protests in the western media (especially in European) eclipsed the information that the parliament had adopted laws on anticorruption reforms.<\/p>\n
Another Ukraine\u2019s topics in foreign newspapers:<\/p>\n
– confirming general Stepan Poltorak as a defence minister (media writes, quoting NSDC analysts, about the full support of the general from the parliament)<\/p>\n
– Putin-Poroshenko talks in Milan. Key points: a) Kyiv may be proposed to lose some territories in favor of a compromise; b) Putin is not ready to accept a compromise \u2013 \u201cEconomic growth is not a priority for Mr.Putin,\u201d economist Guryev explains. \u201cIf Putin is to choose between the growth and the Crimea, he\u2019ll choose the Crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Poroshenko\u2019s request of a \u20ac2 billion loan package from EU <\/p>\n
CLASHES OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT<\/p>\n
Thousands of protestors called for adopting the law on recognition of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. When the law wasn\u2019t passed, the clashes erupted near the building of the Verkhovna Rada.<\/p>\n
The Guardian, Sky News, Reuters:<\/p>\n
In the morning the parliament confirmed Stepan Poltorak, a former National Guard chief, as the country’s new defence minister instead of Valeriy Heletey. Moreover, the parliament adopted a series of important laws on prosecution, the principles of state anticorruption policy. Deputies also voted for presidential law on creating an \u201canticorruption bureau\u201d. On Tuesday, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law on determining ultimate beneficiaries. Also, the parliament adopted the law on preventing corruption.<\/p>\n
www.theguardian.com <\/a><\/p>\n news.sky.com <\/a><\/p>\n uk.reuters.com <\/a><\/p>\n POROSHENKO-PUTIN TALKS<\/p>\n Ukraine and Russia took steps to reduce tensions in this country\u2019s embattled eastern regions as their presidents prepared to meet this week. Officials described most of the fighting as wrangling over boundaries that could become permanent if a cease-fire takes hold. Kiev denies it will make any agreements that involve territorial concession or exchanges with separatists. But senior officials say talks have, in fact, drawn up such contingencies, and that Kiev may abandon or swap some territories with separatists to reach a peace agreement.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n online.wsj.com <\/a><\/p>\n Italy will be a moderator at Putin-Poroshenko talks.<\/p>\n Corriere della Sera:<\/p>\n Italian President Giorgio Napolitano will hold separate talks with Ukrainian and Russian president at the summit in Milan to search the way out of the Ukrainian-Russian crisis, the correspondent of Corriere della Sera writes.<\/p>\n www.corriere.it <\/a><\/p>\n On 16 October, guns, tanks and planes will be back in the city, now the capital of Serbia, for a Liberation Day parade held four days early to accommodate the guest of honour – Russian President Vladimir Putin, en route to a summit in Milan. The decision to change the date of a traditional celebration caused a mixed reaction in the Serbian media.<\/p>\n Global Post, Euractiv:<\/p>\n Media blamed Serbian authorities for trying to change the historical calendar because of the visit of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n POROSHENKO\u2019S PLEDGE FOR EU CREDITS FOR UKRSINE<\/p>\n MILITARY HELP. THE ROLE OF OSCE<\/p>\n The European Union\u2019s executive remains ready to consider additional assistance to Ukraine, a spokeswoman said Friday, but the bloc appears unlikely to accept an additional loan request of \u20ac2 billion ($2.5 billion) that officials say Kiev is seeking.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n Two EU senior officials said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote to Mr. Barroso in the last two weeks requesting a \u20ac2 billion loan package to spend over the next year or so. \u201cThey\u2019re asking for anything they can get\u2026as quickly as possible,\u201d one of the officials said. According to the source, \u201cthe amount was probably much more than the EU\u2019s executive could give from its balance of payments assistance budget next year.\u201d The same person explained the journalist \u201ca more realistic amount would be up to \u20ac1 billion and even that would stretch the Commission\u2019s earmarked funding.\u201d \u201cAny package would have to be approved by EU member states, a number of whom have voiced growing concerns about the pace of economic reforms by Mr. Poroshenko\u2019s government,\u201d the author explained.<\/p>\n German-French Plan to send drones to Ukraine also faces problems. “A German-French plan to send military-surveillance drones to monitor the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is running into a thicket of security and legal problems, underscoring the obstacles facing Europe as it tries to tamp down violence in the region,” the article wrote.<\/p>\n online.wsj.com <\/a><\/p>\n online.wsj.com <\/a><\/p>\n SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA<\/p>\n Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil price manipulation\u2019 could sink the Russian economy.<\/p>\n The Business Insider, Reuters:<\/p>\n The vice-president of Russia’s state-owned oil behemoth Rosneft Mikhail Leontyev accused the country of manipulation the oil price for political reasons. The news comes as Reuters reports Saudi officials have been privately admitting to oil market participants that they are comfortable with lower oil prices.<\/p>\n www.businessinsider.com <\/a><\/p>\n www.reuters.com <\/a><\/p>\n A business leader of a country in Central Europe, which today is a EU member, has recently discussed the situation in Ukraine with a Russian businessman, his business partner, Sylvie Kauffmann, the journalist of the French newspaper retells. When the conversation came to the issue of Western sanctions, Russian brandished a vengeful finger to the coffee machine: “You will see, you will eventually pay us back the money we lost out of the sanctions! ”<\/p>\n Le Monde:<\/p>\n The price which Europe pays does not affect Russians, after all. It forces to think whether sanctions are effective, Kauffmann continues. Following the situation with rubles and capital outflows, Russian economy continues to hold well due to its rather primitive structure: it is a great merit of what American researcher Clifford Gaddy called \u201ceconomic cockroach\u201d. It is not in its depression, but in the fact, that this insect, which is very widespread in Moscow, \u201cin the absence of sophistication has the ability to survive in the most diverse and difficult conditions.\u201d Geddy thinks, a \u201csimple, inexpensive, but invincible\u201d Kalashnikov rifle could be a symbol of Russian economy.<\/p>\n abonnes.lemonde.fr <\/a><\/p>\n Western sanctions for Ukraine conflict hurt Russian economy, open up rifts.<\/p>\n The Washington Post:<\/p>\n Deep into the worst conflict between Russia and the West since the Cold War, investors are fleeing, food prices are soaring and there are rumbles from Russia\u2019s Westernized business elite that the nation needs to avoid repeating the economic mismanagement that broke apart the Soviet Union. \u201cWestern sanctions have choked off financing to some of Russia\u2019s economic juggernauts and denied crucial technology to the nation\u2019s energy sector,\u201d journalist Michael Birnbaum explains. But there is little evidence that the mounting economic pressures since the March annexation of Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula will soften Putin\u2019s policies toward Ukraine and other nations in the former Soviet orbit. Putin still enjoys sky-high approval ratings, and ordinary Russians say they are ready to make sacrifices in a battle with the West.<\/p>\n Some analysts say that the new economic realities may force Putin to moderate his stance on Ukraine, the key driving aspect of the broader conflict with the West. \u201cPutin\u2019s rhetoric is becoming softer, much softer than it was three or four months ago,\u201d said Vladimir Ryzhkov, a political analyst who is a former opposition lawmaker. \u201cThe economy, it\u2019s the main thing that\u2019s happening now in Russia. And economic problems are growing very fast.\u201d But others expect that Russia will simply slide into a period of economic malaise that is unpleasant but that does not force fundamental changes in the nation\u2019s basic financial planning. \u201cThere is no scenario for disaster coming up in the next couple years,\u201d said Sergei Guriev, an economist at the Paris university Sciences Po, who left Moscow last year saying that he was at risk of political persecution. He said that Russia\u2019s attractiveness to foreign investors would be permanently damaged. \u201cInvestors have learned that, for Mr. Putin, economic growth is not a priority,\u201d he said. \u201cIf he has to choose between growth and Crimea, he will choose Crimea.\u201d<\/p>\n www.washingtonpost.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"