Tag: IMF

Biden Calls On Ukraine To Press On With Reforms, Says Sanctions On Russia Must Remain Until Crimea Returned

January 16, 2017

The US Vice President said that Ukraine must work to defeat the “cancer of corruption.”

Ukraine Live Day 659: Biden Urges Ukraine To Enact Reforms

December 8, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 501: Several Explosives-Related Incidents In The Kiev Region, Kharkiv And Mariupol

July 3, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 387: 1 Ukrainian Soldier Killed, 4 Wounded, As Attacks Continue On 3 Key Fronts

March 11, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 315: New Austerity Budget and Non-Aligned Status Become Reality

December 29, 2014

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Might Moscow Lose Control of Forces It Has Unleashed in Ukraine?

April 24, 2014

Staunton, April 24 – It is notoriously easier to spark a protest movement than to control its direction thereafter or to ensure that it does not become a model for others one does not want to be involved in. That risk is now on display in eastern Ukraine where pro-Moscow activists are not only seeking […]

Yanukovych’s Bankruptcy: Why Ukraine is Waiting for a Change of Power

December 19, 2013

This article in Forbes Russia predates yesterday’s surprising news that Ukrainian President Yanukovych has signed a $15 billion deal with Russia that has Russia buying Ukrainian government bonds and has Russia slashing the cost of natural gas from $400 per 1,000 to $268.5 per 1,000 cubic meters. As the BBC notes, this will not be […]

Alexander Lukashenko Has Called Off the Revolution

December 5, 2013

Nezavisimaya Gazeta, an independent Russian daily newspaper, shines a spotlight on another one of Russia’s neighbors, Belarus. – Ed. Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko has acknowledged the woeful state of the national economy, but stopped short of admitting his own complicity in it. Experts regard the failure of the current president’s socio-economic policy as the cause of […]

Kiev Takes a Timeout

November 25, 2013

Russia has arguably won its trade war with Ukraine, at least for now. After months of punitive measures because of Kiev’s desire to choose joining the European Union over the neo=Soviet Customs Union, last week the Ukraine suspended its move to join the EU. The move has been highly unpopular in the Ukraine, and protesters have taken […]

Latvia: the Next Cyprus?

July 29, 2013

Earlier this month, EU finance ministers gave their approval for Latvia to become the eighteenth member of the Euro in January 2014. It seems counterintuitive that the country of two million people would want to enter the perpetually distressed and recession-stricken economic zone. But for Latvia it has a variety of benefits, not the least […]