Section: The American Center for a European Ukraine (USA)
Poroshenko signs law ratifying NATO representation status in Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko signed law on ratification of the agreement between the Government of Ukraine and NATO on the status of the NATO mission to Ukraine. The document was signed on September 22, 2015 in the course of the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Ukraine. The abovementioned agreement provides for the establishment...
Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee files case against Privatbank
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has opened a case against public joint-stock company commercial bank PrivatBank, the committee’s press service has reported. The committee said that it asked PrivatBank to provide information as part of two ‘oil’ investigations, but the bank refused to do this. “The Antimonopoly Committee filed...
Mayor shot dead in Starobilsk (Luhansk region)
A mayor has been shot dead in a Kiev government-controlled town in the troubled Russian-speaking eastern region of Ukraine, local police sources say. Local police spokeswoman Tetyana Pogukai said on Tuesday that the assassination took place in Starobilsk town, which is located 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the northeastern city of...
Inquiry into murders on Maidan to end on March 1
The investigation into the cases involving the crimes during the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014 on the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv will end on March 1, Chief of the Special Investigation Directorate of the Main Investigation Department under Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) Serhiy Horbatiuk has said. “On March...
US and Germany asked Ukraine not to take any actions in 2014 in response to Russia’s takeover of Crimea
The United States and Germany asked Ukraine not to start any active operations in 2014, which could trigger a large-scale ground invasion of the Russian army. UAT: US and Germany asked Ukraine not to take any actions in 2014 in response to Russia’s takeover of Crimea …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
This Is the Change Ukraine Really Needs
The constitutional reform must include redesigning the judicial system. As long as Ukrainian judicial system stays a hostage of current political infighting, citizens will never see the benefits of the rule of law. Lustration in Ukraine has become a cover for new corrupt officials and a tool for suppressing political opponents and a perpetuation...
NBU sets three most important banks
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has designated the country’s three largest bank – PrivatBank, Oschadbank and Ukreximbank – as systemically important banks, and introduced special regulations for them. According to the NBU, starting from January 1, 2019 systemically important banks are required to ensure at least 30% of the instant...
Europe betrays Ukraine’s ‘heavenly hundred’
They died wearing EU ribbons, hoping that one day their corrupt government might reform and Ukraine might be admitted into the ever closer union. Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the killings in Kiev last year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wisely tried to lower the nation’s expectations. Politico: Europe betrays...
Two Years After Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Is The West Betraying Its Values?
This year we are struck by how different things feel. Many of the promises of the revolution remain unfulfilled. Many of the dangers of Russian interference have only become more real. interpretermag: Two Years After Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Is The West Betraying Its Values? …read more Source: The American Center for a...
Cometh the Hour; Cometh the Man?
There are two famous Soviet sayings that usually went hand in hand: что делать и кто виноват? (what is to be done and who is to blame?). The normal sequence was as follows: first to determine that really, nothing was to be done; then find someone to pin the blame on. Ukraine was a part […] …read more Source: The American Center for a...
