Hardtalk: hryhoriy nemyria

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In a HARDtalk interview first broadcast on 28 February 2008, Stephen Sackur talks to Hryhoriy Nemyria, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine responsible for European integration.

Ukraine is one of Europe's largest countries and it presents NATO and EU leaders with a diplomatic dilemma.

The government in Kiev wants to join the NATO alliance and eventually the European Union.

But Russia says the consequences for regional stability could be, to quote President Putin, "terrifying".

Stephen Sackur talks to Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister responsible for European integration.

How realistic are Ukraine's ambitions?