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phenomenon of Ukraine”.
January, 17 The elections of the President of Ukraine
2010 took place. Out of 18 candidates, V.
Yanukovych (35.3%) and Y. Tymoshenko
(25%) entered the second round. On
January, 25 the Central Electoral
Commission adopted the resolution about
conduction of the repeated voting on
February, 7, 2010.
January, 23 Ukraine lost its last opportunity to its part of
2010 the USSR assets (after downfall of the USSR
the debt of the USSR to Western countries
was equal to 81 billion dollars. But the
USSR assets were considerable enough.
There were 270 tons of golden bullions in
the State Depository. The property abroad,
by assessment of experts, was worth more
than 5 billion dollars. After signing the
union treaty in Bielovezhskaya Pushcha
(December, 8, 1991), a share of Ukraine in
all-union assets was equal to 16,37%, that is
13,5 billion dollars and 42,1 tons of gold and
real estate abroad, which was worth 600
million roubles. But in December, 1994, the
Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitaliy Masol
signed the document, which was called “a
zero variant”. The idea belonged to the
present Head of European Central Bank Jean
Claude Trishe. He headed a French bank
then. As a result, Russia accepted liability to
pay a part of Ukraine’s external debt,
Ukraine, in its turn, passed a part of its assets
of the former USSR to Russia. On January,

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