KIEV, Aug. 10 – Ukrainian political scientists have named both political and economic reasons for a transfer of a meeting between Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin for the fall 2007 after parliamentary elections in Ukraine, a source in Moscow has told Interfax.
"I think that this is Moscow's initiative, as the Ukrainian president was interested in showing stable, pragmatic and friendly relations with Russia and Putin before the elections and to snatch an initiative in relations with Russia from the premier. If there was Moscow's refusal from this meeting, and it's likely that Moscow was the initiator of this refusal, this is in favor of the Regions Party and Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yanukovych," Vadym Karasev, director of Global Strategy Institute.
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