Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Today there are very few people in Ukraine who are expecting positive changes
Ukrainians turn out to be among the world’s saddest nations, according to results of the latest United Nations World Happiness Report. Over the last three years, Ukrainians’ happiness level plummeted as their country moved down 36 positions in the survey, the Kyiv Post newspaper writes. But Andriy Bychenko, the director of the...
Economic policy and macroenomic developments in Hungary
Language English At first sight, the economic situation in Hungary has been getting better in recent years, with economic growth reaching nearly 4 per cent in 2014, the fastest rate in the EU. But are these numbers really as good as the Orban government claims? Gabor Oblath, senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian...
To counter terrorism, the public should be informed about the threat of terrorist attacks
The tragic events in Brussels showed that Ukraine and the EU member states should thoroughly prepare to counter such terrorist threats, and check all the scenarios in the investigation of the terrorist attacks. This opinion was expressed by Joint Director of Foreign Policy Programmes and International Security of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy...
Russian Prosecution Cites “Bellingcat Methodology” in Savchenko Trial
As part of the case against the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, the Russian prosecution used the methods previously utilized by Bellingcat in proving that the Russian military, from its own territory, carried out artillery attacks against Ukrainian army positions. These methods were included in the expert testimony of Aleksandr Bobkov, the Head...
Slovyansk Recovers from Russian Occupation
The fast train travels the nearly 700 kilometers from Kyiv to Slovyansk in just under six hours. It stops a few times before arriving at the train station in the suburbs of Slovyansk, the small city of 125,000 that Moscow’s agents seized and held for nearly three months shortly after its hybrid war in Ukraine’s east began in early...
