Decentralization, special status, and federalism. These terms are three different things, although they are often mistakenly substituted one for another, and some people think one term means another in Ukraine today.The decentralization debate is heating up again as Ukraine faces a legal deadline to pass a constitutional amendment that gives the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic “special status” as the Minsk 2 Agreement stipulates.The amendment is quite controversial, and President Petro Poroshenko currently doesn’t have the necessary 300 votes in parliament to pass the measure. In large part, the reason for both of these things is …read more
Source: Atlantic Council
