Section: Razumkov Centre (Ukraine)
Ukrainians place responsibility for the economic situation on the prime minister
Director of Sociological Service of the Razumkov Centre Andriy Bychenko told the Radio Svoboda news agency about the prime minister’s approval raititng. People’s Front, which ranked first in the parliamentary election last year, has lost electoral support the most. The main reason for the decline in popularity of the prime...
Reconciliation with Donbas will be possible only if the border is sealed
Moscow maintains that rebel leaders should negotiate a settlement directly with Kiev before reintegrating their territories into Ukraine and accepting government rule. But authorities in Kiev say elections must first be held under Ukrainian law in the rebel-held region. Only then can discussions take place about a redistribution of regional...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №15
The new issue of the Razumkov Centre Newsletter contains articles and interviews of the Razumkov Centre’s experts, dealing with most topical issues in Ukraine’s current affairs. In particular – domestic politics, security sector, the situation in the Ukrainian economy and energy sector. Read the Razumkov Centre Newsletter №15...
Gazprom made concessions to Naftohaz not to lose the Ukrainian market
Ukraine relies on natural gas supply from the EU states; we need a contract with Gazprom just to be safe. This was stated by Director of Energy Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Omelchenko, informs the website From ua. According to the expert, a decrease in gas supply to Ukraine from Hungary may be caused by several reasons. It may be...
Ukraine’s business and politics grew especially tight under Yanukovych
Bloodied by war and barely solvent, Ukraine is facing another threat from within: oligarchs with private security forces and steamroller business tactics inherited from decades of corruption, the Bloomberg writes. The symbiotic relationship between the country’s business and political elites grew especially tight under Viktor Yanukovych,...
Will the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine provoke Russia?
In the comment to the website Novoe Vremia, Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi said that Western weapons will enable Ukraine to reduce the number of casualties among Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Today there is an ongoing debate that the supply of Western lethal weapons to Ukraine could provoke Russia...
Attending an international round table “Conflict resolution – what Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and the EU should do”
On 11-13 March 2015, in Germany (Berlin), an international round table Conflict Resolution – What Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and the EU Should Do was held by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The round table was attended by representatives of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, experts of the institutions of the European Union, and delegations of...
It’s not in the interest of Poroshenko and Kolomoyskiy to fight with each other
Fifty-two-year-old oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy didn’t take the news lying down. Within hours of the parliamentary vote on March 19 he mobilized a group of armed men who barricaded themselves in UkrTransNafta’s offices in Kyiv, the Deutsche Welle reports. “After that compromise between the politicians the threat is minimized to almost...
Putin’s dogs
Co-director of foreign affairs and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk contributed to the Kyiv Post newspaper about the role of Putin’s dogs in Russian foreign policy. …read more Source: Razumkov...
The fight against the influence of business on governance should be comprehensive
Since 19 March, when the Supervisory Board of Ukrtransnafta decided to dismiss the company’s Chairman Oleksandr Lazorko, and the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the law on joint-stock companies, which, according to its developers, should bring Ukrnafta back under control of the state, the situation around these two companies has...
