Section: Razumkov Centre (Ukraine)
Sanctions will affect Russia’s policy when they reach the “pain threshold”
Sanctions against Russia as the aggressor country should be intensified in order to reach the “pain threshold” of the Russian leadership. This opinion was expressed by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi, informs the website Obozrievatiel. “The main goal is to reach the ”pain threshold“, beyond which Russia...
Only sanctions against Gazprom will significantly affect the Russian economy
Restrictive measures of the U.S. and the EU will become a real threat to the Russian economy only when sanctions against Gazprom are imposed. This opinion was expressed by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the news agency TSN. The expert also noted that the next...
Russia will direct its efforts at supporting instability in the Donbas
With Kyiv lacking the military might to break the rebels by force, Western allies now fear that a large chunk of Ukrainian territory will become a Russian protectorate with a parlous economic future, beyond the writ of the central government, the Reuters reports. “We have now realistically entered the phase of a ‘frozen conflict’,”...
Most of the political forces in Ukraine are pro-Western
“It is time to unite.” The slogan ambushes Ukrainians from all sides these days as Petro Poroshenko, the president, deploys it to win votes ahead of parliamentary elections on October 26 that will determine whether he can secure a mandate for important but stalled reforms, the Financial Times newspaper writes. “Previously, the main watershed lay...
Russia is blackmailing Ukraine and Europe with the threat of escalation of the conflict in Donbas
Russian troops and separatists continue to build up their forces in the parts of Donbas controlled by them. This was stated on 4 November by Spokesman of the Information and Analysis Centre of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko at the briefing in Kyiv, informs the news agency Radio Liberty. Co-director of Foreign...
Parliamentary election is a break between Ukraine’s future and Soviet past
Any electoral outcome will probably leave Poroshenko’s basic Western-oriented policies in place. But he may feel pressure to show a harder line against Russia and the rebels, since anti-Russian voices will gain in number and former Yanukovych allies, who were friendlier to Russia, will fade, writes the Washington Post. “This is a break...
The People’s Front won the party-list vote because Ukrainians trusted Yatsenyuk
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on his parliamentary party today to support Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister, saying the country needs to be united “as never before” following Oct. 26 elections, the Bloomberg writes. The People’s Front won the party-list vote because Yatsenyuk campaigned on “clear messages” and many...
Parliamentary coailition will unite behind Ukraine’s future accession to the EU
In recent parliamentary election backing for billionaire President Petro Poroshenko’s party and the Popular Front of his Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk tops 40 percent, while the Regions Party of deposed leader Viktor Yanukovych wasn’t running. Poroshenko wants to build a coalition with other pro-European parties, the Bloomberg...
The People’s Front success gives Yatsenyuk a serious claim to stay on as premier
The People’s Front and Poroshenko’s bloc were neck-and-neck with 21.9 percent and 21.5 percent after almost 73 percent of ballots had been counted for party lists in recent parliamentary election in Ukraine, the Bloomberg reports. The showing for Yatsenyuk’s party gives him “a very serious claim” to stay on as premier, according...
Cluster munitions scandal was arranged to discredit Ukraine
The experts from Human Rights Watch who reported the alleged use of prohibited cluster munitions by Ukrainian military officers near Donetsk Airport were misled in order to discredit Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi, informs the website Halnet. According to Mr...
