Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine Has Every Right to Play Hardball With Its Creditors
As Ukraine fights Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, the government is simultaneously engaged in a battle with its foreign creditors for the debt relief it desperately needs to prevent a full-scale economic collapse. Ukraine owes $32 billion in foreign currency Eurobonds.To stave off disaster, the International Monetary Fund and other...
The Azerbaijani First Daughter’s Cozy Russian Retreat
Without an invitation, it’s nearly impossible to take a look at Leyla Alieva’s house near Moscow, since privacy is so highly valued by her neighbors. From OCCRP. Without an invitation, it’s nearly impossible to take a look at Leyla Alieva’s house near Moscow, since privacy is so highly valued by her neighbors. From OCCRP....
Ukraine Leaders Look To Summit With Germany, France To Curb Russian ‘Aggression’
August 21, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine Steps Up Efforts to Recover Stolen Assets Abroad
Two Kyiv-based women—a lawyer who heads a state agency created to reclaim stolen assets abroad and a social activist-turned-politician who’s made a career out of exposing official corruption—spoke August 20 in Washington about their efforts to clean up Ukraine.Olena Tyshchenko is director of the Agency for Asset Recovery at Ukraine’s...
Ukraine Crisis Update: August 20, 2015
Download the PDF Russian-backed separatists launched a rare artillery barrage on the northeastern outskirts of the strategic government-held port city of Mariupol on August 16. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote …read more Source: Institute for the Study of...
Russia, Not Ukraine, is the Questionable Partner
In its August 12 editorial, “Shaky Ukraine: Economics and Corruption Complicate Its War,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls Ukraine a “questionable partner” because of “resistance to economic reform and use of Islamist Chechen forces.” Too bad neither charge is true. …read more Source: Atlantic...
Jeremy Corbyn and his sinister friends
Even if they disagree with his politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s parliamentary colleagues, such as Douglas Carswell from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), acknowledge that he is a nice, down-to-earth fellow; certainly not one of his party’s grandees. Unpretentious, rarely seen wearing a suit and a tie, he’s also been one of the most...
The Right Sector Phenomenon: Between Patriotism and Banditry
Nationalist militias are the government side’s best fighters in the Donbas war. On the home front, they could also become its greatest liability. From Slon. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Pitch To Vacationers: Crimea Is For Patriots
August 20, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: August 2015
This memo offers a baseline assessment of the reform process as it stands a year and a half after the Euromaidan protests and the fall of Viktor Yanukovych’s government. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
