Moscow presented to the new Ukrainian leader, Viktor Yanukovich, a number of categorical demands, which are required for the resumption of friendly relations between the two countries, the weekly Vlast (Power), as well as some Ukrainian sources, report.
The head of the administration of the formal Kremlin ringleader, Sergei Naryshkin, who conducted 6-hour talks with Yanukovich, visited Kiev a day before, the newspaper reminds.
Citing a source in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the magazine writes that "Russia prepared a list of specific steps that the new government in Kiev should accept as a sign of renewed friendship between the former fraternal nations".
"Moscow would like the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to abandon the practice of using the services of CIA consultants ... It is enough to mention that in summer of 2008 diplomas to the graduates of the Academy of Security Service of Ukraine given presented by the then US ambassador in Kiev, a professional intelligence officer, William Taylor", the weekly cites an unnamed Ukrainian diplomat.
He also said that Russia raised a question of resumption of activities of the Russian FSB in the Russian Black Sea Fleet (the FSB officers were ordered to leave Crimea at the end of last year).
Finally, according to the Ukrainian diplomat, Moscow made it clear that it expects from President Yanukovich to stop all military cooperation with Georgia, which flourished under his predecessor.
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