... different ideas about democratic institutions and procedures. Possible only within a limited period of time, the peaceful coexistence scenario hinges on third-arty political actors’ unwillingness to actively seek compromise for the situation in Ukraine. The slow, gradual introduction of the Western sanctions, as well as Russia’s reactive sanctions against the Western nations, is now detrimental to all parties involved, although it does not preclude a dialog and contacts between parties ...
The decision of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovysh not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union was the starting point of the still on-going Ukrainian crisis. In this conflict, Russians and Ukrainians, who have historically had extremely close ...
The surrealism of the Ukrainian conflict continued last week, with the 28 members of the NATO alliance meeting in a cozy golf resort in Wales, United Kingdom, to discuss all of the supposedly egregious and disconcerting Russian maneuvers against Ukraine and demanding that Russia stop inviting further sanctions and pressure against itself, as British Prime Minister David Cameron emphasized at the summit. All of this is well and good, of course, part of the pomp and circumstance of international ...
The key to understanding the current state of affairs in Russia-Ukraine gas relations is in the fact that Kiev is simply bankrupt. Both the Ukrainian government and Naftogaz have been slung over the barrel, primarily because low domestic prices are not bringing in enough revenue. The Ukraine gas price set in 2009 ...
Interview with Yuri Borovsky
The trilateral negotiations on supplies of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, scheduled for September 6, 2014, have been postponed due to irreconcilable differences between the participants and the political deadlock that has arisen in the process of settling the Ukrainian crisis. As the winter heating season approaches,...
... ministers disbanded. Frantically trying to return quickly disappearing confidence and breathe new life into the country’s stagnating economy, French President François Hollande is also playing quite the ambiguous role in the settlement of the Ukraine conflict. We met with RIAC Expert Yuri Rubinsky, PhD in History, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, to discuss the motives and the rationale for France's involvement.
Dr. Rubinsky, how would you describe France's approach to the events ...
... needs, as well as investing in promising projects.
From this perspective, the Ukrainian state was not viable back in February 2014. On February 24, the newly appointed Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and government coordinator (future Acting President of Ukraine)
Alexander Turchinov declared
in Parliament that Ukraine needed external financing of 35-40 billion dollars before the end of 2014. On the same day A. Turchynov, together with the National Bank of Ukraine and the Ministry of Finance,
addressed ...
... the peace process in Donbass.
The irony is that both Moscow and Kiev need the transition from civil war to negotiations with a view to a peace agreement. Russia has long and consistently supported the idea of preserving the territorial integrity of Ukraine (within the post-Crimea borders) on condition of the country’s federalisation. According to the Kremlin’s calculations, which are supported by
numerous international experts
, in this case Russia would minimize its risks regardless ...
In light of the Ukrainian crisis, Sweden has started to consider providing a financial assistance package to Ukraine. While such a decision does not seem out of character for the beneficent country who has taken in almost 20 percent of the European Union’s asylum seekers last year[1], there may be other factors that have led Sweden towards this decision....
Latent tensions have loomed before civil strife actually irrupted in Ukraine amid deep-rooted political uncertainties. That claims upon the Crimean peninsula would be eventually raised by Putin’s Russia, concentrating troops at the borders and effecting what appeared to be a military invasion, followed by a political ...
