Ukraine/Russia – ‘a new gulag is emerging’
At least 4,000 civilians are held in Russia and at least as many scattered around the occupied territories, according to Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian human rights activist who talks… Read more »
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Why ‘freedom will win’ – Ukraine has no other option
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky today addressed a joint session of the UK Parliament shortly after making a surprise trip to the UK, the BBC reports (above). Hundreds of MPs and… Read more »
‘Oligarch-infested kleptocracy’? Ukraine’s corruption undermining democratic prospects
By pumping so much money through the hands of Ukrainian officials and businessmen — often the same people — the surge in military spending has held back efforts to… Read more »
What’s ahead for Ukraine’s reform movement?
Can Ukraine win its war on corruption? ask Melinda Haring [Editor of the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert and a former Penn Kemble fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy] and Maxim… Read more »
Ukraine’s former leader ‘paid bribes of $2 billion’ – $1.4 million for each day in office
Ukraine’s former president paid bribes worth at least $2 billion (£1.4 billion) during his four years in office – amounting to almost $1.4 million for every day he was… Read more »
After Yatsenyuk: Ukraine government ‘likely to be less reformist’
Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, the prime minister of Ukraine, announced his resignation on Sunday in a surprise move that opened a new period of political uncertainty, The New York Times reports:… Read more »
Paradox jeopardizes Ukraine’s transformation
Two years on from the protests that ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s revolution is confronting its central paradox: many of the leaders who emerged from it were veterans of… Read more »