Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
IMF Boss Issues Stern Warning to Ukraine
Kyiv’s Western partners are stepping up pressure on Kyiv to implement austerity measures, robust action against corruption. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine risks losing IMF support
Ukraine’s key creditor is concerned about Ukraine’s slow progress in improving governance and fighting corruption, and reducing the influence of vested interests in policymaking. Ukraine must enact promised reforms and root out corruption or risk losing the support of the International Monetary Fund, Reuters reported referring to IMF...
Russia and Iran are fighting together – but are they as close as it seems?
After years of isolation, Iran is slowly coming back in from the cold after the deal to curb its nuclear programme. And as it starts to reassert itself more openly in the world order, it’s rekindling a stormy affair with an old flame: Russia. The two countries have discussed opening a joint bank, co-operation in space research, and...
An Update on Ukraine with Nataliya Gumenyuk
What is happening with Ukraine’s reforms? What is the impact of current Western involvement? What is the military situation in Eastern Ukraine? And what role does the media play in all of this? Nataliya Gumenyuk, journalist and commentator, will give an update on the current situation in Ukraine at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary...
Russian Fury Over North Korean Missile Claim
The Kremlin demands an apology from South Korea for accusation it may have provided North Korea with rocket technology. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Minsk agreement: one year of shadow boxing
The conflict is likely to remain in its present, not fully frozen state, with all the negative consequences that entails for the Donbass, the rest of Ukraine, and Russia. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Political instability adversely affects the hryvnia exchange rate
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn encourages not to draw direct parallels between the depreciation of the hryvnia and the words of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine that currently there are no sufficient grounds for the revaluation of the national currency, informs the website Segodnia. “I am not sure...
Everything you need to know about the UN secretary-general race (part 1)
The first part of the series outlines how the race is run, who is agitating, and what their interests are. Part 2 will handicap the field of early secretary-general contenders, from a 39 year-old Montenegrin wunderkind to Australia’s own Kevin Rudd. Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer recently warned about the absence of global leadership,...
Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: The Case of Belarus
On February 1, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Sochi. The meeting was not planned in advance: Lukashenka had reportedly only called his Russian counterpart on January 28 to request this engagement. This puzzled political commentators. After all, the two heads of state met on December 15 and...
Germany Asks Ukraine To Boost Debt Terms After Russia Rebuff
February 10, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
