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The discussion is likely to be followed by forecasts of Ukraine"s further progress toward NATO membership. Advocates of Ukraine"s accession to the European Union are likely to resurge as well, as this prospect has allegedly become more probable since the European Parliament resolution adopted on the day Yanukovych was sworn in.

In fact, Ukraine"s new president did not say anything new in Brussels. A drift toward NATO was announced as Ukraine"s official strategy by President Leonid Kuchma. True, it was not approved by a national referendum, but by the parliament, which was as usual engaged in an on-going process of creating all sorts of coalitions. At that point, the "Donetsk" party decided to support the "Westerners." Later, after the "orange revolution," the Donetsk party based a whole political campaign on fighting the arrival of NATO warships in the Crimea. Consider the statement about the policy that is "to remain unchanged," when it looks more like a weather vane turning

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