Ukraine Claims Its Right for Part of USSR's Property

I cannot rule out that someone is pressuring Yanukovych to raise the issue again to get a certain amount of money from Russia. But at the same time I cannot rule out another option. It could be just a loud statement aimed at minimization of the accusation of the state leader by the opposition who accuses him of betrayal of the national interests.

If someone is seriously willing to get money from Russia this way, it may just worsen the Russian-Ukrainian relations. Ukraine has no prospects here because at some point it decided not to pay its share of the USSR’s debt. It cannot be reversed. If Kiev was in the least capable of doing it, the respective claims would have been voiced in Yushchenko’s time.”

Sergey Balmasov
Vadim Trukhachev

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