How Putin turned Ukraine to the West
(Monkey Cage) The 2014 snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) that took place on Oct. 26, 2014 will likely go down in history as a watershed election in…
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An Overview of the Make-up of the New Ukrainian Parliament
I saw no major surprises in the recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Voters indicated their support for the reform perspective and movement toward Europe. The vote confirmed the consolidation of…
Kuchins: Let’s not equate passing out cookies at Maidan with suggesting that the US Gov. was orchestrating the whole thing
(RT) Ukraine is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it is becoming increasingly clear that it will require much greater financial support in order to avoid economic collapse. But with…
Ukraine’s Election: Hope and Concern
Looking at the exit polls and preliminary results released just after the Ukrainian parliamentary elections ended today, at least two developments stand out, one hopeful and one worrisome. First, the…
Haran: Poroshenko’s pragmatic approach working in the polls
(Institute for War & Peace Reporting) With less than a month to go until Ukraine’s presidential elections, President Petro Poroshenko’s coalition looks to dominate the vote, although nearly a third…
Local Governance and Decentralization Assessment: Implications of Proposed Reforms in Ukraine
(USAID | by Sean R. Roberts and Oleksandr Fisun) This report is the result of an extensive assessment of the process of proposed decentralization reforms in Ukraine as it relates…
Sushko: NATO is becoming a key reference point for Ukraine
(SETimes) Deeper NATO-Ukraine ties are especially important for the country against a background of ongoing conflict with Russia, military experts said. The Ukrainian government has adopted several resolutions allowing access…
New Policy Memo: Ukraine: Trends and Regional Dynamics in Population, Health, and Migration
Today’s conflict in Ukraine hinges on perceptions of a stark East-West political divide. This memo assesses the extent to which geographic variation characterizes other elements of today’s Ukraine, mainly those…
Reply to Andreas Umland: The Donbas Insurgency Began At Home
Andreas Umland has written a thoughtful and thorough review of my PONARS policy memo analyzing the domestic sources of the armed insurrection in the Donbas in March-April 2014. While raising…
Could Putin’s troops ‘be in Warsaw in two days’?
(EUobserver | Baev, Podvig) BRUSSELS – “If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Bucharest”,…