Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Prosecutor General’s Office obtains carte blanche to raid anti-corruption NGO
The ever-obliging Pechersky Court in Kyiv has allowed the Prosecutor General’s Office to search and remove documents, etc. from the Anti-Corruption Action Centre. This, we are to understand, is how the illustrious investigators want to find US money allocated for reforming the prosecutor’s office …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Why murder the lawyer of captured Russian military intelligence officers?
The brutal murder of Yury Hrabovsky, the lawyer representing one of two believed Russian GRU officers captured in 2015 in Donbas, came at a time when the men’s exchange for Ukrainians held prisoner in Russia was being openly discussed. While it is widely assumed that his murder is linked with the case, it is less clear who is behind it....
IS where to start?
…Who can become IS fighter? Anyone – an unemployed, a career officer, fanatic unclear orientation. The main thing – to find these, and seduce someone with money who are “celestial houris”, who – career. And, of course, the main help is to promote, without IS – nothing. If you carefully read the Russian press, it appears that the IS – “main force”...
Critical lawmakers to be expelled from parliament after exposing corruption
The decision on stripping them of mandates follows large-scale corruption accusations by Firsov against Oleksandr Hranovsky, a high-ranking Poroshenko Bloc lawmaker, and his key ally Ihor Kononenko. Some critics even argue that the decision reflects the Poroshenko Bloc’s transformation into something worse than disgraced ex-President Viktor...
The Jaresko manifesto for Ukraine
Ukraine’s US-born finance minister, Natalie Jaresko, released a statement in the evening of March 22 that amounts to both a political manifesto and a direct challenge to President Petro Poroshenko to act decisively and give her the job of PM. IN: The Jaresko manifesto for Ukraine …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Arrest of an ‘Oligarch’ in Belarus
On March 11, Yury Chyzh, one of Belarus’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, was arrested. Chyzh heads Triple, a conglomerate with 5,000 employees and assets in various businesses, including the oil trade, construction, the import of alcoholic beverages, the hotel industry and other sectors. By the standards of Russia or Ukraine, Chyzh is no...
Russian Opposition Meets Abroad, Calls for Greater Democratization and Federalism at Home
The first ever meeting of the Forum of Free Russia took place on March 9–10, in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was a unique public event, featuring a direct dialogue between Russian political emigrants and oppositional activists still residing in Russia. Such a conference would be impossible to hold in present-day Russia. And indeed, many of its exile...
Ukraine is Turning into Liberia
Earlier this month while delivering a public lecture in Kiev, “The Challenges of an Ever-Changing World,” former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an inspiring remark for anyone who might have been thinking that life in Ukraine was bad: “You should go to Liberia where the standard of living is much lower, and then you will be thankful.”...
Ukraine Parliament Speaker a Possible Yatsenyuk Successor
Volodymyr Groysman emerges as front-runner to replace unpopular premier. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Polityka gospodarcza a rozwój makroekonomiczny Węgier
Language Polish Na pierwszy rzut oka sytuacja gospodarcza na Węgrzech poprawiła się w ostatnich latach zdecydowanie. Wzrost gospodarczy osiągnął poziom prawie 4 proc. w 2014 roku, jeden z najwyższych w całej UE. Ale czy wskaźniki ekonomiczne są rzeczywiście tak dobre, jak twierdzi rząd Orbana? Gabor Oblath, Senior Research Fellow w Instytucie...
