Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
And Then There Were Five: The Plight of Ukraine’s Oligarchs
Ukraine’s five wealthiest people have lost a collective $9.75 billion in the last year. To put this number in perspective, the IMF’s bailout package is worth $17.5 billion. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Is Russia’s Government Planning to Take on Chechnya’s Strongman?
Russian analysts are beginning to wonder whether Moscow has grown tired of Chechnya’s ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, and wants to replace him. Recent attacks on human rights activists in Chechnya received unusually wide and negative media coverage in Russia, even though years of routine rights violations in the republic, documented by human rights...
When Will Mikheil Saakashvili Return to Georgia?
The appointment of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili as the head of government administration (governor) of Odesa province in Ukraine produced a wave of speculation about his future plans in Georgia. Immediately after taking office in Odesa, Saakashvili gave several interviews for Georgian media outlets, including Rustavi 2 and Imedi....
Bringing Belarus Back in From the Cold (Part Four)
To read Part One, please click here.To read Part Two, please click here.To read Part Three, please click here. To help lessen Belarus’s economic dependence on Russia, and reach out to mainstream Belarusian society, the European Union has a range of non-political instruments available. The EU can, for example: work with the Euroclear...
Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling: What is he compensating for?
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a new “military-patriotic recreation park” near Moscow. His speech there made headlines, and not because the park is what one Western reporter called a “military version of Disneyland,” where kids can fire rocket-propelled grenades. (Sounds like the kind of park that I would have wanted to...
Here’s Why Moscow Doesn’t Want the Donbas but Continues to Meddle There Anyway
The war in the Donbas is imposing large costs on Ukraine. According to Ukraine’s leading investment bank Dragon Capital, in October 2014 the occupied territories in the Donbas accounted for 2.6 percent of Ukraine’s territory, 7.3 percent of the population, 10 percent of GDP, and 15 percent of industrial production. This output has...
No Breakthrough in Ukraine Peace Talks, Tbilisi Counts Toll of Weekend Flood
Plus, conflicting views of the Srebrenica massacre divide Belgrade and Sarajevo, and the Chinese yuan exerts an ever-stronger pull on Russian business. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A Winning Strategy For Ukraine
The “new” Ukraine that has emerged since the ouster of former President Viktor Yanukovych has proved to be surprisingly resilient. Unfortunately, by treating Ukraine like Greece, European leaders are inadvertently helping Russian President Vladimir Putin achieve his goal of permanent destabilization. …read more Source: Project...
Unilateral declaration of default will cause legal action against Ukraine
Economic Research Consultant of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Sidenko commented to the newspaper Silski Visti on the course of the negotiations between the government and the creditors on restructuring Ukraine’s external debt. The creditors seem to be willing to change the payment period and reduce the interest rate but not to write off...
Experts on overregulation in the banking sector – 138th mBank-CASE Seminar
“The issue of overregulation in the banking sector has recently been widely discussed due to the fact that nowadays domestic and international legislation covers almost all areas of banks’ activities. Until now, this problem has been analyzed mainly in reference to some particular bylaws. I, on the other hand, would like to assess the...
