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Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
On 5 July the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, elected in 2012, ended its spring session. 26 out of the planned 39 plenary sessions were held during this session. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted only a number of laws which were necessary…
OSW Studies |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
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Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk, Arkadiusz Sarna
On 21 June the leading Ukrainian media holding UMH announced that it had sold 98% of its shares to VETEK, a company owned by 27-year-old businessman Serhiy Kurchenko. UMH owns dozens of newspapers, radio stations, internet portals,…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański
The presidents of Belarus and Ukraine, Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Viktor Yanukovych, met on 18 June in Kyiv and signed a protocol on the exchange of documents ratifying the Ukrainian-Belarusian agreement on the state border of 1997. The two…
Analyses |
| Marta Jaroszewicz
On 5 June the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine and the Academy of Science published data from the second all-Ukrainian survey on labour migrants, conducted with financial support from the EU. The most interesting conclusions from the…
Analyses |
On 31 May in Minsk, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov signed a memorandum of deepening cooperation between Ukraine and the Eurasian Economic Commission (EuEC), which is the executive body of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
On 30 April, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgement on the case of Yulia Tymoshenko v. Ukraine, stating that her detention pending her trial for abuse of power when concluding a gas contract with Gazprom in 2009 was unlawful…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk
On 26 April a government draft bill was put forward in the Ukrainian parliament providing for the lifting of the ban on privatising the state-owned company Naftogaz. The main objective of the proposed changes is to remove the existing…
OSW Commentary |
| Mychajło Honczar
Ukraine has had to wait nearly four decades for this opportunity to regain its status of a major gas producer. Gas from unconventional sources may lead not only to Ukraine becoming self-sufficient in terms of energy supplies, but may also…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
Statistics published over the last few days have confirmed the persistence of the economic recession in Ukraine which began in mid-2012. It is mainly related to the slump in overseas markets, which are the key customers of Ukrainian…