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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…
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…