Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia’s Bond: It’s Official! (… and Private … and Anything Else It Wants to Be …)
Ukraine’s bond restructuring talks are in high gear, and, as ever, Russia is the trouble du jour. Not only is it threatening to hold out in the bond deal and take Ukraine to arbitration, Russia also seems poised to block International Monetary Fund (IMF) disbursements to Ukraine using an arcane Fund policy on “lending into...
Transatlantic Unity Makes Russia Sanctions More Effective
WASHINGTON—It has been a year since the United States, European Union, and other allies first sanctioned Russia for its illegal annexation of Crimea and aggression toward Ukraine. As Russia’s destabilization of Ukraine continued, the United States and Europe broadened sanctions in an effort to persuade Vladimir Putin’s government to...
What the West Owes Ukraine
Ukraine may not be grabbing as many headlines now as it did a year ago, but the crisis there is far from over. Ultimately, what Ukraine needs is to escape the old Soviet order – and, for that, it needs significantly more Western help than it is getting. …read more Source: Project Syndicate (Czech...
Economics 101: A Lesson for Ukraine
Ukraine Can Learn from Baltic States’ Experience with Reforms, says Lithuania’s Ex-Prime Minister As it struggles to fix its economy, Ukraine would do well to study the reforms successfully implemented by three fellow former Soviet republics in the Baltics, Andrius Kubilius, Lithuania’s former Prime Minister said April 16 at the...
The Future Of The Past: Ukraine Pushes De-Communization, Amid Russian Protests
April 17, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Book Release Event: Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Senior Fellow Anders Åslund presented the findings of his new book, “Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It,” published by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and released on April 17, 2015. Ukraine’s Minister of Finance Natalie Jaresko and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius...
Yet Another Activist Sentenced in Baku, Bosnian Crime Gang Gets 95 Years
Plus, Russians drop off the richest-of-the-rich list and a patch of ground in the Balkans becomes a libertarian mecca. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
News Release: New Book on Ukraine Calls for Sweeping Political, Economic, and Government Reforms
Ukraine, facing an existential crisis after years of political, economic, and military turmoil, must undertake sweeping reforms to achieve prosperity and independence, according to a new book by Anders Åslund published by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. …read more Source: Peterson Institute for International...
Ukraine had a shock without therapy
Language English Macroeconomic situation of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, current political circumstances in the region and the tensions in the post-Soviet countries were the main topics discussed during the macroeconomic workshop “Mapping out vulnerable sectors in Eastern partnership countries” on 16 April in Warsaw. Experts Małgorzata McKenzie...
Russland und der Atomkonflikt mit Iran
Trotz der Eiszeit in den Beziehungen zwischen Moskau und dem Westen spielt Russland eine konstruktive Rolle in den Atomverhandlungen der E3+3 (Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien + China, Russland, USA) mit Iran. Russland unterstützt die am 2. April 2015 in Lausanne erreichte Verständigung über Eckpunkte eines Abkommens, mit dem der...
