Ukraine's balanced moves towards EU but not NATO

Having narrowly won Ukraine's presidential election in February, former opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich has now been sworn in. He chose Brussels for his first foreign visit as new head of state. It came a few days  before he headed to Moscow. Euronews's Denis Loktev interviewed him in the European capital.
 
Denis Loktev, Euronews: Mr President, you're regarded as a pro-Russian politician, compared to your more pro-Western opponents... Why chose Brussels and not Moscow for this first international visit?
 
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[Ukraine871]

Our President

been in prison 3 times!

just fucking

[xMaXiMuSx]

@AncutaMerkel

well actually Ukraine looked like Zimbabwe when it was ruled by the two NATO crackpots Timoshenko and ushenko lol..

[RaphaelVaughan]

I hope one day Ukraine and Poland will be like really close and Ukraine will fully use Polish struggles to introduce Ukraine to the Western Europe (EU and NATO).

Poland's been there, Ukrainian brothers. But we fought Russian influence and became a completly independed state. You can do it ;-).

[AncutaMerkel]

Yanukovich is a Russian Soviet fucker. We don't want this dick near the EU. As long as Ukraine is on this current road of dismantling democratic institutions etc, Ukraine will look more and more like Zimbabwe, but Soviet style

[etiennealive]

@islandcaptain I totaly agree with you. I was in Russia ones and, than I asked myself the question why europe and Russia, (and presumably other countrys to), weren't working together. The goals and interests aren't that big at all. No bigger than the distances between, for instance, The Netherlands and France. So what is this bullying of countrys about, anyway ?

[vadimmart]

He said North Osetia instead South Osetia and confused Kosovo with Serbia and Montenegro! He did such things before, when confused the famous russian authoress Anna Akhmatova with ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov! At least once at month all Ukraine laughing from he's speeches.

:))))

[BoykoSV]

Russia never interested in strong Ukraine and never will. At least while putin-mevedev stay in the Kremlin. So now we got that pro-russian president. That's no good for all Europe.

[islandcaptain]

Europe and Russia must ultimately come together and find a normalization of relations, but this can only happen once Russia has bridged the gap with the peoples of Central Europe among whom it has spent centuries building mistrust. Rapprochement is needed far beyond the Ukraine. But it must begin with the Ukraine and Poland. When that day comes, the world will be a safer place. One can only hope this is a beginning. But Russia has long proven remarkably unchanging.