Editor’s note: US Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt gave remarks at the “Conference on Legal and Governance Reform,” sponsored by the US-Ukraine Business Council and Kyiv School of Economics on October 30, 2015 in Kyiv. Pyatt’s remarks have been shortened below. The full version is available here.What a difference a year makes.When we gathered here last year, the Kremlin-backed war in the East was in full force. The battle for Donetsk Airport was in its third week. Political leaders were campaigning for parliamentary elections—elections that voted in the most reformist government in Ukraine’s history.Today, the guns are quieter. We are seeing …read more
Source: Atlantic Council