Section: Razumkov Centre (Ukraine)
Meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Ukraine
25 November 2015: a meeting was held at the Centre between representatives of the Razumkov Centre and a delegation of the Embassy of Canada to Ukraine. The Razumkov Centre was represented by: Anatoliy Rachok, Director General; Yuriy Yakymenko, Deputy Director General for Analytical Work, Director of Political and Legal Programmes; Viktor...
Participation in the Parliament-Civil Society Platform
27 November 2015: Viktor Musiyaka, Research Fellow of the Razumkov Centre, took part in the Parliament-Civil Society Platform and spoke at the expert debate on the panel for Constitutional Amendments Regarding the Judiciary: Overview of the Key Novels. The speech contained opinions and commentaries regarding a number of provisions of the...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №28
This issue 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 №28 …read more Source: Razumkov...
The EU is expected to approve vise-free regime with Ukraine from the second half of 2016
Kyiv is now awaiting the EU Commission’s final report on the results of Ukraine’s visa liberalization action plan. The report, which is expected to be released in December, then has to be followed by a political decision by the EU on whether to rescind visas requirements for Ukrainian citizens for short-term travel to the EU, writes...
Unlike many EU politicians, Biden objectively assessed the situation in Donbas
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk says that the most serious and not very pleasant message for the Ukrainian politics given by Joe Biden is obvious concern about the level of corruption in Ukraine and the lack of progress in the fight against it, informs the website...
Ukrainians consider corruption the biggest threat to national security
30% of Ukrainians consider internal threats more dangerous for the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine than external ones. Of all the internal threats, corruption ranks first. These are the findings of the study conducted by the Razumkov Centre, informs the news agency Radio Liberty. “On a scale of 0 to 10, among...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №27
This issue 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 №27 …read more Source: Razumkov...
Ukraine should prepare for possible Russian retaliation for the Crimean blockade
Ukraine needs to modernize its coal-fired central heating plants to accept the type of coal mined in Europe, a process underway but not yet completed. Despite these energy weakness, the prevailing mood in Ukraine is that the government should have been more aggressive about Crimea months ago. The peninsula has been without a mainline electricity...
Ukrainian power plants have at least 2.3 million tons of coal in storage
The deliberate blackout, caused on Nov. 21 when saboteurs destroyed pylons carrying electricity from the mainland Ukraine to the Crimea, has left more than half of peninsula’s two million people without power, the Kyiv Post writes. Viktor Logatsky, an energy expert from the Razumkov Centrе, voiced the concern that Russia might order the...
Ukraine should set royalties based on impartial methodology, not political agreements
Ukraine should develop a methodology for determining royalties for the use of oil and gas extraction mineral resources but not set them on the basis of political agreements, in particular by making them depend on the national budget deficit, the director of energy programs at the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Omelchenko has said, reports Interfax...
