Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The IMF will remain the main creditor of Ukraine in the near future
Economic analysts said Ukraine can anticipate a tranche of about $2.7 billion from the IMF in early 2015, and a top fund official indicated that the organisation could send a new mission to Ukraine in the coming year. Experts said, that the fact that Ukraine will not receive the money before the end of the year is not critical, the Southeast...
In the war for Ukraine’s Donbas, the Ordeal of a Frontline Town
Far From Kyiv and Next to Donetsk, the Elderly of Pisky Get Daily Shelling, But No PensionsBefore this year’s war in southeast Ukraine, the town of Pisky, at the edge of the city of Donetsk, was home to about 3,000 people. Many were academics who worked at the local Donetsk Institute of Agricultural Production. Now, Pisky is a debris-strewn...
As US and Europe Press Ukraine to Reform, They Also Must Help Save It from Default
The Ukrainian Project to Keep Europe Whole and Free Needs Adequate Financing—and Quickly Ukraine’s new government has unleashed a “tiger team” of ministers committed to quick and comprehensive reforms—but as that work begins, the costs of war and recession have pushed Ukraine to the edge of default. Ukraine has begun to take steps to slash...
Best of TOL for 2014
Our favorite stories of the year. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Time for the IMF in Russia
The last thing that a beleaguered Vladimir Putin will want to hear is that Russia has now reached the stage where it desperately needs an IMF supported economic adjustment program. Without such a program it is difficult to see how Russia can regain domestic and international confidence in the management of its economy. Absent the IMF, it is also...
The Ukraine military system has failed to execute the war effort properly
Even with backing from the U.S. and the European Union, the Ukraine military system has failed to execute the war effort properly, said Co-director of the Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, the Bloomberg writes. As shelling leveled the Donetsk airport and damaged villages and towns...
Beijing Extends Moscow a Helping Hand, Russian Allies Proffer Ukraine Mediation
Plus, Belarus cracks down on foreign currency trading, and Hungary struggles to deal with an influx of illegal immigrants. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Justice Delayed
Slow progress in Ukraine’s probes of the Maidan killings is testing the patience of activists and victims’ families. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Are low gas prices good or bad?
Oil prices have been falling — and with them the quality of reporting and writing about this periodic event. Stock market “guru” Laszlo Birinyi (just to select one of many annoying examples) claims that “It [the oil price drop] is just a black swan. It comes clearly out of the blue. Four standard deviations out of anything else [ie, exceedingly...
Q&A: Global Arms Trade Treaty enters into force
Headline Title: Q&A: Global Arms Trade Treaty enters into force 22 December 2014 …read more Source: Amnesty...
