Section: Razumkov Centre (Ukraine)
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...
The shadow economy in Ukraine is now about 50% of the total
Millions of Ukrainians are confronted with mounting hardships this coming winter as the 8-month-old conflict with Russia-backed separatists drains the treasury of $5 million a day, corruption continues to deprive government coffers of badly needed tax revenue and Russia has canceled energy subsidies that made home heating affordable before...
The amount of Western aid will be increased soon enough
Analysts believe that Kyiv’s Western backers and lenders were especially cheered by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decision to appoint as finance minister a US investment banker who once worked in the State Department, the West Australian newsapaper writes. Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk “were clearly taking...
The militants agree to a ceasefire when they are running out of ammunition
In Eastern Ukraine, cannons should be silenced on 9 December. The Day of Silence in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, where the Ukrainian army and armed pro-Russian separatists are fighting, has been initiated by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko for the second time. However, many doubt that the armed conflict will really stop this time,...
Participation in the international seminar “Media in a political context: a means of control or propaganda tool?”
On 24 November 2014, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes Oleksiy Melnyk presented the report “The Role of Propaganda in the Ukrainian Conflict” to the participants of the international seminar “Media in a Political Context: A Means of Control or a Propaganda Tool?” The event was held by Stockholm International...
The meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine
On 24 November 2014, the meeting of the representatives of the Razumkov Centre with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was held. The U.S. Embassy was also represented by Counsellor for Public Affairs, Education and Culture Mr Conrad Turner. At the meeting, the Razumkov Centre was...
Expert Discussion “Middle Class in Ukraine: Sociological Portrait”
On 20 November 2014, the Razumkov Centre, with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, within the project “Middle Class in Ukraine: Life Values, Readiness to the Association, and Promoting Democratic Standards”, held an expert discussion “Middle Class in Ukraine: A Sociological Portrait”. The discussion was attended by...
Participation in the roundtable “Security Challenges: Ukraine, Europe, the World”
On 6 November 2014, at the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of Ukraine, the roundtable “Security Challenges: Ukraine, Europe, the World” was held. The event was attended by prominent representatives of the diplomatic corps, the expert community, and a large student audience of the Academy. The Razumkov Centre was represented by Director of Military...
The Ukraine-NATO partnership ranges from the political to the technical issues
Further Ukraine’s co-operation with NATO will include military consultations, which experts say will become increasingly important because Ukrainian politicians have declared defence ministry reform as one of the new government’s main priorities, the Southeast European Times website writes. “The partnership has several aspects,...
Ukrainian seaports are incapable of accommodating enough coal from abroad
The root of the energy problem facing Ukraine is the lack of coal supplied across the country from the Donbass region, now largely controlled by separatists backed by Russia, said Volodymyr Omelchenko, Director of the Energy Programmes of the Razumkov Centre, the Los Angeles Times newspaper writes. “Since the armed conflict started in eastern...
