Exactly seven years ago, Ukraine was convulsed by crisis. Dozens of protesters had been fatally shot by police and the president had reportedly fled the country. The events came to be known as the Euromaidan revolution and they set Ukraine on a bumpy path towards integration with the West. To take a closer look at where Ukraine now stands along this road, Armen Georgian is joined by the country's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who's a career diplomat and a specialist in strategic communications and digital diplomacy.
It's a long-running and highly contentious project: the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that is designed to transport gas directly from Russia to Germany, across the Baltic Sea and bypassing Eastern Europe.Now Ukraine's government is hoping that the arrival of Joe Biden in the White House could help put the brakes on Nord Stream 2, as Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told FRANCE 24: "Nord Stream 2 is a big problem. Not only for Ukraine, but for Europe. It reshapes the energy balance. It deviates from the strategy of diversifying supplies. We are satisfied with the messages that the Biden administration is sending, which have confirmed that Nord Stream 2 is a bad project. But we should give the administration more time to take specific actions to make an impact on the construction of the pipeline.”Kuleba also called on French President Emmanuel Macron to "make another push" in the effort to resolve the ongoing conflict with separatists in eastern Ukraine: "France is a leader of Europe; it has all the opportunities to demonstrate its leadership. The settlement of the conflict – caused by the Russian aggression against my country – is an excellent field to play the role of leader."He added: "The recent positive dyn... Go on reading on our web site.
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