Georgia’s Mixed Signals and the Eastern Partnership’s Future
The events of the last five months have brought home the dangers of a blase attitude for Europe. It is something of an open question as to whether that lesson has been learned. Georgia may be putting the question to the test. As everyone has once again learned, Georgia lost control of its two longtime breakaway provinces, South Ossetia and...
Ukraine: Displaced People Need Urgent Help
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Ukrainian authorities have not provided adequate protection and assistance to tens of thousands of Ukrainians who were forced to flee their homes, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Petro Poroshenko. People have fled because of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the ongoing armed conflict...
Compassion to the relatives of MH17 flight passengers and crew
We offer our heartfelt compassion to the relatives of those passengers and crew who will not see their loved ones again. For months we have shed tears over our own dead. We have tears left for the innocent victims of this crime. Ukrainian Institute in London For media assistance, comment and analysis: Andy Hunder, Director of the Ukrainian...
Increasing arms production requires a comprehensive review of the security sector
During the visit to Slovyansk on 8 July 2014, President Petro Poroshenko stated that Ukraine was going to increase the production volumes of its own arms to meet the needs of the military personnel, which, according to him, would result into preparing changes to the state defence order, informs the news agency RBK-Ukrayina. Director of Military...
Briefing Note: Russia Fails to Meet PM’s Conditions – Must Face New Sanctions
See attached latest Ukrainian Institute – Ukraine Briefing Note 5 to Members of Parliament Conditions set for Russia On 5 June 2014 in Brussels on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, Prime Minister David Cameron laid down three clearly articulated conditions regarding de-escalation in Ukraine that Russia must meet or face further...
Ukrainian journalists taking on the Kremlin’s propaganda machine
READ LATEST BRIEFING HERE: JUNE BRIEFING PAPER ******************** Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre co-founder Nataliya Popovych (Photo: Kyiv Post) Ukrainian journalists are taking on the Kremlin’s propaganda machine. One of their projects, stopfake.org, is a fact-checking website set up to expose the misleading, distorted and sometimes...
Ukrainian Lawyers become eligible to be admitted as Solicitors of England and Wales
Ukraine admitted to the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) list of eligible jurisdictions London, Friday 13th June, 2014 The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the regulatory body for solicitors in England and Wales, today announced that it has recognised Ukraine as meeting the requirements to be a recognised jurisdiction of the...
Ukrainian Freedom Fund Launched – New Initiative to Support the Ukrainian Army
The Ukrainian Freedom Fund (UFF) was officially launched at a press conference in Kyiv today, April 29th, to help centrally collect and convert donations into support for military units located on the Ukrainian State Borders. The Fund, set up three weeks ago through a joint initiative of Andrew Bain, President and Owner of Atlantic Group, one of...
Andy Hunder: Putin More Afraid of Banks than Tanks
Ukrainian Institute Director Andy Hunder spoke at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre in Kyiv earlier in April, 2014. “What UK is focusing now is on the role it can play as we understand that Vladimir Putin is more afraid of the banks than tanks”, said Andy Hunder, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, during a briefing at the...
Ukrainian governments’s forces has tried to cut off the rebels’ supply from Russia
Ukraine’s government now faces a choice on how to end the insurgency if it pursues the military option: use more heavy shelling, as in Slovyansk, or engage in an urban guerrilla war in the center of Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, the Aljazeera reports. The Ukrainian government’s antiterrorist operation thus far has tried to...
