Section: Razumkov Centre (Ukraine)
After Ukrainian forces were restructured, the operations became more effective
When pro-Russian rebels first fanned out across eastern Ukraine in April, seizing public buildings, ousting local officials and blockading streets and highways, the government’s security forces – a ragtag lot of poorly equipped and understaffed military and police units – were largely paralyzed by dysfunction and defection. They...
Despite recent improvements, Ukrainian military’s work is far from done
When pro-Russian rebels first fanned out across eastern Ukraine in April, seizing public buildings, ousting local officials and blockading streets and highways, the government’s security forces – a ragtag lot of poorly equipped and understaffed military and police units – were largely paralyzed by dysfunction and defection. They...
Economic and social challenges of Ukraine after the change of power
The new Ukrainian leadership that came to power in the end of February 2014 has faced a set of substantial challenges the answer to which will decisively determine the level of its legitimacy, their public support and their ability to retain the power. The extreme level of difficulties that now Ukraine confronts are determined by a unique...
External discipline is needed to reform Ukrainian economy
Ukraine signed a sweeping economic and trade agreement with the European Union on last Friday, finally completing a trade deal that plunged it into a revolution and ongoing conflict with its closest neighbour, Russia. The deal would remove tariffs on around 98 per cent of the goods traded between Ukraine and the EU, and could begin the process of...
If Akhmetov had started to resist sooner, Donbass could have avoided huge losses
Each day at noon, hundreds of thousands of factory workers in Ukraine’s rebel hotbed pause as sirens blare for three minutes, a behavioral tool Rinat Akhmetov is using to help guard the country’s largest fortune, the Bloomberg writes. Still, the new government remains suspicious of the tycoon because he was closely tied to Yanukovych,...
Meeting with representatives of the Sobieski Institute
On 14 April 2014, the Razumkov Centre held a working meeting with representatives of the Sobieski Institute (http://www.sobieski.org.pl), one of the leading think tanks in Poland – Mr. Pawel Soloch, member of the management board and Mr. Pawel Szalamacha, deputy to the parliament (Sejm) from the Law and Justice party. The Razumkov Centre...
Neutrality won’t help Ukraine avoid the aggression of Russia
The ideal security assurance for Ukraine is NATO. Neutrality won’t save it from the aggressive Russia. This opinion was expressed by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi, informs the news agency Ukrinform. “Ukraine has to either rely on its resources or resort to external assurance in the form of...
New publication “Ukraine-2014: Socio-Political Conflict and the Church. Positions of Religious Figures, Experts and Citizens”
This publication contains the materials of a regular Roundtable on “Religion and Authorities in Ukraine: Problems of Relations” held on May 15, 2014. The meeting discussed issues concerning the status of the Church as a civil institution. The publication contains documents of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious...
Public opinion survey “Citizens attitude towards different types of territorial organisation”
In the end of December 2013, the Razumkov Centre had conducted a survey to determine the public perception of different options for territorial organisation. According to the survey results, the majority of Ukrainians oppose the idea of having a federal state (61% of citizens expressed negative views and only 16 % were positive about it). The...
Razumkov Centre’s Annual Report-2013
2013 was marked by constant declarations of political leaders regarding the readiness to make every possible effort to sign the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, and the discrepancy between these statements and actual cases, the uncertainty of a large part of society, an obvious pressure from Russia on Ukrainian...
