The EU is expected to approve vise-free regime with Ukraine from the second half of 2016
Kyiv is now awaiting the EU Commission’s final report on the results of Ukraine’s visa liberalization action plan. The report, which is expected to be released in December, then has to be followed by a political decision by the EU on whether to rescind visas requirements for Ukrainian citizens for short-term travel to the EU, writes...
Kerry in Moscow to Push for Cooperation in Syrian Conflict
Trip comes as Syrian rebel group denies receiving Russian support. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Food Bans Hitting Russians Where It Hurts
Food producers warn of further price rises unless a new truck tax is scrapped. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
“Mamushka. Recipes from Ukraine and Beyond” New book by Olia Hercules. A talk with the author. 17 December, 2015, 7pm
“Green borshch, bursting with the malachite hue of wilted sorrel” and “enciting smells of warm poppy seed cakes”. Welcome into the world of Olia Hercules, aka “Mamushka” who introduced a whole different Ukraine to the Brits, the land of sunflower fields, sun-drenched tomatoes, with an amazing mix of cultures and flavors thrown in. Watch...
Peace Through Economic Connectivity?
Can trade and energy cooperation promote peace? On December 14, an IPI Vienna meeting discussed the possibilities and limitations of peace and economic connectivity between Europe and Asia; the European Union (EU) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU); and across unrecognized boundaries, for example within states where there have been “frozen”...
Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at Twenty-Five-A Baseline Assessment
Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, all of the countries of Eurasia remain in the midst of difficult transitions and face unpredictable futures. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russia Fires Warning Shot, Verbal Salvos at Turkey
Incident in the Aegean latest ‘provocation’ over operations in Syria, Russian military says. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Fragile Status Quo
All the major players in the conflict in eastern Ukraine have achieved roughly what they can realistically expect to achieve. All except the Ukrainians themselves. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine’s Parliament Stages Championship Fight, Reminding World It’s Still Ukraine
Bang-up job, guys. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, reached a new achievement in dysfunction yesterday by descending into a literal brawl. Oleh Barna, a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s eponymously-titled political party (the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc,” a naming convention sadly too common here, though they added back in...
Unlike many EU politicians, Biden objectively assessed the situation in Donbas
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk says that the most serious and not very pleasant message for the Ukrainian politics given by Joe Biden is obvious concern about the level of corruption in Ukraine and the lack of progress in the fight against it, informs the website...
