NEWS OF POLITICS OF POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES
While there is no consensus concerning what recent Russian military activity near Ukraine means, it has led to strong statements from US officials. On December 3, the Washington Post reported…
Corporate governance reform at Ukrainian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has reemerged as a national priority since April 2021 following management changes at energy giant Naftogaz. Tellingly, at the July 20
The Russian parliamentary election of September 17-19 removed any lingering doubts that Russia has ceased to be a democracy and exposed the true authoritarian face of the Putin regime. The…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers approved the country’s 2022 draft budget on September 15. Infrastructure spending is once again among the top spending priorities in the draft document as President Zelenskyy’s…
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears genuinely convinced that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.” As he made perfectly clear in his lengthy July 2021 essay “On the Historical Unity of…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his September 22 address at the United Nations General Assembly to criticize the international community’s ineffective response to Russian aggression in Ukraine and support calls…
For centuries, Ukrainian villages have been associated with traditional images of rural tranquility, agrarian abundance, and ancient folklore. One particularly enterprising village in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast (Transcarpathian Region) has managed…
Perched proudly on the northern coast of the Black Sea and the western edge of the Pontic Steppe, Odesa is a swaggering city that has been capturing the international imagination…
On the sidelines of February 20
Digitization is set to remain among the dominant global trends of the coming decades. Ukraine’s task is to build on today’s strong IT industry foundations and make sure the country…