Business New Europe: Ukraine’s game of high-stakes poker
Did Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych just outfox Russian President Vladimir Putin and make a complete fool out of the entire European Union?
A string of events over the last week suggest that Yanukovych never had any intention of signing off on the free trade and association agreement at an EU summit in Vilnius at the end of November and always intended to join the rival Russia-led Customs Union trade club instead.