KIEV, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The absence...
In an August 11 open letter to Yushchenko, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he was holding off sending Russia"s new ambassador to Ukraine over Kiev"s anti-Russian policies.
"The absence of the [Russian] ambassador means a freeze in relations," the Ukrainian leader said in an interview with Rzeczpospolita.
However, he said Ukraine was seeking "to maintain good cooperation with Russia" and that it was "against quarrels between Ukrainians and Russians."
Back in August, Medvedev blamed Kiev for the deterioration in relations between the two former Soviet republics, strained in recent years by gas disputes, Ukraine"s desire to join NATO, and interpretations of the Soviet-era famine in Ukraine
During his two-day visit to Poland, a former Soviet-bloc country that has backed Ukraine"s bid to join NATO and the EU, Yushchenko met with his Polish counterpart, Lech Kaczynski, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk.