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Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
On 7 April, President Viktor Yanukovych pardoned six people convicted of corruption offences, including Yuri Lutsenko, a former interior minister in Yulia Tymoshenko’s government, and Heorhiy Filipchuk, a former ecology minister in the…
Point of View |
| Sławomir Matuszak, Arkadiusz Sarna
After winning the 2010 presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych and his government developed an ambitious and comprehensive programme of reforms across key areas of social and political life. The return to a presidential system of…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
On 22 February President Viktor Yanukovych, during the TV show “Dialogue with Society” announced that it would be possible to sign a gas deal with Russia in the first half of the year. The deal would involve Ukrainian transit gas pipelines…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
Since the beginning of February there has been a stalemate in the parliament of Ukraine. The opposition has prevented its activity from getting under way by blocking the speaker’s rostrum, and has called for the introduction of a guarantee…
Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
On 7-8 February the EU Commissioner responsible for neighbourhood, Štefan Füle paid a visit to Kyiv, while on 6 February Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych visited Vilnius. The main subjects of talks during the two visits were the…
OSW Commentary |
| Tadeusz Iwański, Piotr Żochowski
President Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions have been repeating the pledge to decentralise power in Ukraine and to give local government a greater decision-making role ever since the party appeared on the Ukrainian political scene…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański
On 1 February, the Ukrainian businessman and politician Valeriy Khoroshkovsky sold 100% of his shares in Inter Media Group Limited, which held 61% of shares in Inter, one of Ukraine’s most popular TV channels, as well as seven other…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk
On 26 January the Financial Times, citing a source in the Ukrainian government, reported that Gazprom had issued a bill for US$7 billion to Naftogaz for the purchase in 2012 of a smaller amount of gas than that agreed in their 2009…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
On 24 January in Davos, the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, Eduard Stavitsky, and the director of the Dutch-British company Shell, Peter Vozer, signed a 50-year Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) concerning a project for the production of…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
On 18 January, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine charged Yulia Tymoshenko with the theft of property from the company she herself ran, the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU), and with complicity in the 1996 murder of Yevhen Shcherban…