Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Who Will Identify Ukraine’s Dead?
With the body count in Ukraine rising and the government overwhelmed, a volunteer group is working to make sure families learn the fate of their loved ones. …read more Source: Open Society...
Why Do Ukraine’s Reform Ministers Keep Quitting?
February 3, Ukraine’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius announced his resignation at a press briefing with a big bang that may unleash a political crisis and shake the country’s fragile finances.Abromavicius, a 40-year-old investment banker of Lithuanian origin, who has lived in Kyiv for many years as a...
Only Presidential Leadership Can Avert Ukraine’s Perfect Storm
The February 3 resignation of Ukraine’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius is a signal that the country’s efforts to dramatically reduce corruption and rent-seeking are meeting with serious resistance.The resignation also exposes how Ukraine’s political system works. Just as in established democracies, technocrats and experts...
Russian Propaganda in Ukraine: Fighting Phantoms
For Ukrainians, the war in eastern Ukraine has become an everyday reality. Only two years ago, though, no one in the country believed war was possible—and certainly no one expected that propaganda would be one of its main weapons.Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, little attention was paid to building a system that would ensure the...
Ukraine Warns of Rising Risk of War with Russia
February 3, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukrainian Minister Labels Poroshenko Ally Corruption Mastermind
Aivaras Abromavicius quits, accusing president’s man of trying to implant shady officials at the Economy Ministry. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Egypt Seeks Russian Investment, Restart of Tourism
Relations hit bottom after the Metrojet catastrophe over Sinai killed 224 people, mostly Russian holidaymakers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A new way to approach Europe’s gas security, beyond the usual Russian obsession
This op-ed was originally published in Dienas Bizness (Latvia), (Finland), Sina (China). It will be published in Hospodarske Noviny (Slovakia), El Economista (Spain), Le Temps (Switzerland), Diario Economico (Portugal), and Dziennik Gazeta (Poland). European citizens remain vulnerable to another gas crisis, ten years after Russia cut off gas...
A Common Energy Market in the Eurasian Economic Union
To the east of the European Union a regional energy market is taking shape under the auspices of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Even if the interests of the participating states diverge and the ultimate shape of the market remains unclear, the development is likely to be substantial. On the one hand, it threatens to deepen the fragmentation...
Merkel to Putin: Press Ukrainian Rebels to Stand Down
Kyiv denounces ‘fake’ British media account of proposal to join U.S.-led anti-IS campaign in Syria. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
