Ukraine-EU Trade Deal Angers Russia
A free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU came into effect on Friday, angering Russia in the process. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New year, new leaf? What to watch in Turkey in 2016
The Turkey of a decade ago was at a very different crossroads. That Turkey had met the European Union’s “Copenhagen political criteria,” a set of democracy- and governance-related requirements that EU candidates had to meet, and had started accession negotiations. That Turkey’s economy was just beginning to take off. For the first...
Dutch to Assess Alleged Russian Troop Role in MH17 Crash
A citizens’ journalist group passes on information to the Dutch prosecutors which allegedly identifies Russian soldiers responsible for bringing down the airliner. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New publication: Quo vadis, Ukraine? Is there a chance for success? | mBank–CASE Seminar Proceedings No. 139
Language English If I were to say just one thing about Ukraine, I think I would have to stress it is the most underperforming country of all the countries I know.” said Ivan Mikloš, co-founder and president of think-tank MESA10 and a member of the International Advisory Board of National Reform Council of Ukraine, and a keynote speaker...
Lilia Ukrainets: There are countries that have managed to establish efficient economy under conditions of armed conflict, but it should be recognized that such cases are rather exceptions from the rule
Free Voice Information Analysis Center offers our readers an interview with the candidate of economic sciences, assistant professor of international economic relations of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Ukrainets Lilia Anatoliivna about current trends in the development of Ukraine’s economy and related international economic...
Russia and Ukraine, Joined at the Hip No More
By Leonid Bershidsky Russia and Ukraine have spent most of their post-Soviet history as Siamese twins, but for the last two years they’ve been undergoing political and economic separation surgery. It will probably be more or less complete in 2016, and though both twins are in for a grim period, the weaker one, Ukraine, has […] …read...
Future War of the Worlds.
Media focused now the war on “Islamic state”, but the global military giants are preparing their armies in a conflict incomparably larger scale. 01.01.2016 BY Andrzej Talaga The current clash with IS, previous Western operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Russian invasion in Georgia and in Ukraine – it is only an anticipation of what the...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier expresses hope that holiday ceasefire in eastern Ukraine will be followed by additional progress
Berlin, 1 January 2016 – Speaking on New Year’s Day, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed satisfaction with the recent lull in violence in eastern Ukraine. “I am pleased that, based on the observations of the OSCE, the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine has been holding again for...
Strengthening dialogue, trust and security in the OSCE region at the heart of German Chairmanship in 2016
BERLIN, 1 January 2016 – As it takes over the rotating OSCE chairmanship in 2016, Germany’s top priorities will be rebuilding trust among participating States and maintaining efforts for achieving a political solution to the conflict in and around Ukraine, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today. The...
OSCE Chief Monitor in Ukraine: “The people of Ukraine seek peace and normalization”
KYIV, 31 December 2015 – The Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, expressed today strong hope that the coming year will be pivotal in de-escalating the violence and taking concrete steps towards a comprehensive solution to the conflict in Ukraine. “The people of Ukraine seek peace and...
