Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How Western aid enables graft addiction in Ukraine
Ukraine’s elites deploy the courts and police to raid companies they covet. Extortion, not public service, is the primary activity of state regulatory agencies. Even more damaging is the plundering of state assets. The looting of state-owned companies by oligarchs and state officials, including figures close to the president and former...
Gontareva says Ukraine met IMF’s requirements
A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Ron van Rooden has arrived in Kyiv. IMF experts are expected to meet with Ukrainian officials, they will focus on discussions and finalizations of the second review of the Fund’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) adopted for Ukraine in March 2015. Head of the IMF mission […] …read...
Ukraine Makes Iffy Progress After Trade Pact With Europe
May 10, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The Real Scandal Behind the Panama Papers
SOURCE: AP/Arnulfo FrancoThe setting sun lights up the Panama City skyline, April 4, 2016.The Panama Papers leak exposed to the world the offshore holdings of world leaders and their families. Iceland’s prime minister, Ukraine’s president, and the king of Saudi Arabia, as well as close associates of Hosni Mubarak, Bashar al-Assad, and...
EPH and the prospective Vattenfall deal
The envisaged sale of Vattenfall’s East German lignite assets to EPH has raised many questions about the sustainability of open-cast lignite mining and power generation. It has also shone a spotlight on the prospective new owner. EPH is a fast-growing privately owned utility based in the Czech Republic with a risky business model that might...
Senior NATO and US figures warn Brexit would undermine Western security while Boris Johnson claims EU is now “force for instability and alienation”
Senior NATO and US figures warn Brexit would undermine Western security while Boris Johnson claims EU is now “force for instability and alienation”In an open letter to The Daily Telegraph, five former NATO secretaries-generals –Lord Carrington; Javier Solana; Lord Robertson; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Anders Fogh Rasmussen – describe the EU as a...
International Conference “Ukraine – EU: Turning Challanges into Opportunities”
On May 20, the Institute of World Policy will organize its traditional international conference on Ukraine-EU relations. It is annual IWP event held in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the eve of Europe Day. …read more Source: Institute of World...
The Crisis in Turkish-Russian Relations
SOURCE: AP/Susan WalshTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, left, greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Antalya, Turkey, on November 15, 2015.On November 24, 2015, despite multiple warnings from Turkish air patrols, a Russian SU-24 aircraft that violated Turkish airspace for 17 seconds was shot down by a Turkish F-16...
David Cameron didn’t always think the EU was essential to peace
Here’s David Cameron yesterday in a major speech on the Brexit referendum (my emphasis): It’s barely been 20 years since war in the Balkans and genocide on our continent in Srebrenica. In the last few years, we have seen tanks rolling into Georgia and Ukraine. And of this I am completely sure. The European Union has helped reconcile...
Boris Johnson blames Russia’s annexation of Crimea on the EU
According to former Mayor of London and Brexit lobbyist Boris Johnson, it was not Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea and its military aggression in Eastern Ukraine that had caused “real trouble”, but the EU’s actions. . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
