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26/11/2009 - Bloc-Notes
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L’Ukraine se dirige vers des élections présidentielles particulièrement délicates, en janvier 2010. Actuellement, les trois principaux candidats sont crédités d’intentions de vote significatives: 4-5% d'intentions de vote pour le président Ioutchenko, 20-25% pour la première ministre Timochenko et 28-41% pour le dirigeant de l’opposition, le pro-russse Viktor Ianoukovitch. L’antagonisme entre les deux “héros” de la “Révolution Orange” de 2004, Ioutchenko et Timochenko, est à son comble.
Hier 25 novembre 2009, Simon
Tisdall
• La position de Timochenko vis-à-vis de la Russie est décrite comme “onctueuse” par Tysdall: «After late-night talks with Tymoshenko in the Crimean resort of Yalta last week, Putin said he had agreed to waive various penalties and amend Russia's natural gas supply contract with Ukraine to avoid a repeat of last January's dispute, which led to serious gas shortages in eastern and central Europe. “It would be very good to meet the new year without any shocks,” Putin said, adding that transit fees next year would rise by 60% – a change potentially worth billions of dollars to Ukraine. Tymoshenko's response was unctuous. “You, as a strong country, are meeting us halfway,” she said. The deal was seen as both a none-too-subtle attempt to show that she, unlike Yushchenko, could do business with Moscow, and as blatant electoral interference by Putin.»
• Tisdall rapporte l’humeur particulièrement furieuse de la Commission (Barroso) devant certaines manipulations qui ont abouti à la suspension de son prêt à l’Ukraine par le FMI: «All this is watched with trepidation in Brussels, where José Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, recently telephoned Yushchenko to reportedly express concern over the way the IMF bailout and Europe's gas supplies have become political footballs. According to euobserver.com, commission plans to offer €500m in economic aid are under review “because of Kiev's unwillingness to curb public spending or to clean up waste and corruption at its national gas company, Naftogaz”. About 80% of EU natural gas supplies from Russia transit Ukraine.»
• L’intervention US dans le débat ukrainien, qui fut si patente et idéologique par le biais de diverses organisations en 2004, semble se résumer au business as usual, avec l’arrivée massive et massivement rétribuées de consultants politiques pour les élections, pour les trois candidats, selon Politico.com du 18 novembre 2009: «The firm headed by Hillary Clinton’s former chief strategist, Mark Penn, is helping run incumbent President Victor Yushchenko’s campaign. Meanwhile Paul Manafort, whose firm worked on Republican John McCain’s losing effort, and Tad Devine, a top strategist on the Democratic presidential campaigns of Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, are consulting for Victor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian frontrunner in the polls. For Penn, Manafort and Devine, foreign elections have been a lucrative source of business for years. But for the Chicago-based media consulting firm AKPD, the contract to help guide Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s campaign is part of a new, growth area of business that presented itself after the firm helped Barack Obama win the White House last fall.»
• Tysdall conclut tristement qu’il semble bien que Poutine ait gagné… «Given the much reduced appetite for further EU enlargement, it seems certain that the high watermark of EU-Ukraine ties has already passed. It's no consolation for Yushchenko that much the same applies to Georgia, Belarus and Turkey. And for many in Europe who hoped for better, braver things along the EU's post-Soviet eastern frontier, it's galling to conclude that, in a sense, Putin has won.»
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