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Ukraine Update (June 2016)

A discussion of two years of Petro Poroshenko's presidency in Ukraine, and one year of Mikheil Saakashvili's governorship of the Odessa region, as part of the U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City.

Ukraine at a Crossroads

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Studies and Analyses 350-Marek Dabrowski-Ukraine at a Crossroads 2 Materials published here have a working paper character. They can be subject to further publication. The views and opinions expressed here reflect the author(s) point of view and not necessarily those of CASE.

New Challenges for Economic Policy in Ukraine : Proposals for Immediate Action

2006

The authors analyse the new economic situation in Ukraine which is determined by a complex interplay of both external and domestic factors. It is argued that new challenges – most of which have been previously latent and frequently not really perceived as challenges – require appropriate policy responses. Based on analysis of the nature and scope of these challenges, the authors propose immediate policy measures to deal with problems in the field of fiscal and social policies, the external sector, energy and utilities, agriculture and rural development, and investments. Not to be cited or reproduced without quoting this publication. Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting 01034, Reytarska 8/5-А, 01034 Kyiv tel.: (380 44) 278-63-42 fax: (380 44) 278-63-36 e-mail: institute@ier.kiev.ua http://www.ier.kiev.ua ISBN 966-7048-45-4 @ Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, 2006 @ Publishing House “К.І.С.”, 2006

The State of the Crisis in Ukraine

The State of the Transatlantic World 2015, 2015

It has been more than a year since a series of turbulent events started in Ukraine that dramatically changed not only the country’s course but also the broader geopolitical situation in Europe’s eastern neighborhood. Taking stock at the beginning of 2015 ...

Social crisis in contemporary Ukraine in search of a new narrative

Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego eBooks, 2018

on august 24, 2016, Ukraine celebrated the 25th anniversary of gaining independence. despite the fact that this country is very young, Ukrainians have existed as an ethnic group for many centuries. They lived on the territories that belonged to different countries at different times, including The russian Empire, poland, The austro-hungarian Empire, hungary, and romania. now, Ukraine is one of the largest countries in Europe with the area of 603,500 m 2 and population of approximately 42 million people. it would seem that a country which eventually received the long-awaited independence ought to have responsibility to build a strong united society in order to protect its sovereignty, but that did not happen in the 1990s. neither did it happen in the next decade. on the contrary, Ukraine faced several political and economic crises that, in turn, caused the societal crisis that continues to harm Ukraine and its people. in 1993, professor Volodymyr lanoviy, who was the Minister of Economy of Ukraine, wrote: "i am sick and tired of hearing political leaders say 'We are just beginning, we are trying to learn how to steer Ukraine out of political crisis'" (lanoviy 1993: 194). it turned out that this task has become too complicated for him and other politicians. instead of uniting the country by introducing a common narrative of national identity, several very different narratives started to emerge in the 1990s, and now they stand in the way of peaceful and stable development of Ukraine. at first, there were two major narratives-pro-Ukrainian and pro-Soviet (pro-russian). as lanoviy wrote in 1993, "in the West of Ukraine, the popularity of the national socialists is growing rapidly and the republicans are losing the confidence of the population. in the East of Ukraine, the authority and prestige of communism is on the rise" (lanoviy 1993: 194). it should not be surprising that such polarization of the Ukrainian society took place very shortly after the country had declared independence. in the academic literature, there have already been many studies proving that sharp economic declines have negative influence on people's preferences with regard to existing economic and political

Sushyi O. The situation in Ukraine: qui prodest? / Olena Sushyi // Russian Journal of Communication. - 2014. - №2 (6). - p. 199-200.

Russian Journal of Communication, 2014

The situation in contemporary Ukraine is not easy to designate in one word. This is indeed a very difficult, extremely tense, unstable situation with many dimensions, which involves a number of actors and intersections of these actors on both domestic and international levels. Conflict? Crisis? Confrontation? Split?War? As we had not identified the events in Ukraine, it is obvious this is the result of the interwoven impact of internal and external causes. ======================================================================================================================================= Бурхливі події кінця 2013 – початку 2014 рр. відкрили нову трагічну сторінку в історії незалежної української держави. У статті здійснено спробу визначити, що саме являє ситуація в Україні в цей момент, та переосмислити фактори, що її спричинили.