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Postponed Association Agreement signing may become an effective tool to put pressure on Yanukovych, but will make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russia
5 November, 2013
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Oleksandr Kramar
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Successfully tested by Leonid Kuchma over a decade ago, the below scenarios can help Yanukovych win the presidential race in 2015
21 October, 2013
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Oleksandr Kramar
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The ex-premier’s intention to run in the presidential election may discourage Yanukovych from releasing her in exchange for the Association Agreement
21 October, 2013
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Oles Oleksiyenko
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Under the cover of European integration, the government has pushed lobbied initiatives through parliament
21 October, 2013
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Oleksandr Mykhelson
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While the economic crisis in Ukraine escalates, the government focuses exclusively on replenishing the current budget deficit
7 October, 2013
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Lyubomyr Shavalyuk
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In his exclusive interview for The Ukrainian Week, Lithuania’s Prime-Minister Algirdas Butkevičius talks about the importance of the Association Agreement for Ukraine at the Vilnius Summit and the impact of European integration on his country
7 October, 2013
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Hanna Trehub
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The pro-Russian left in Ukraine may stand behind FARE’s campaign against Ukrainian “fascists” and “racists”
4 October, 2013
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Valeria Burlakova
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As the November Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius draws closer, doubts fade that Kyiv and Brussels will sign the Association Agreement. How they see its implementation, is the question
24 September, 2013
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Oleksandr Kramar
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Protest sentiments are escalating in the Donbas. But distrust for politics and inert opposition make the dissent purely pragmatic and local
23 September, 2013
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Bohdan Butkevych
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as a weighty bonus in the upcoming presidential elections
23 September, 2013
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Oleksandr Kramar
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Instead of dealing with Russia’s mounting economic, social, ethnic, and regional problems, the Putin administration is mobilizing anti-minority, anti-foreigner, and anti-American sentiments to stay afloat
19 September, 2013
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Janusz Bugajski
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With the presidential election drawing closer in Ukraine, a campaign is unfolding to discredit the mass media
10 September, 2013
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Milan Lielich
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A strict, often brutal visa regime for Ukrainians will hardly stop criminals or potential illegal migrants from getting to the EU. Instead, it may undermine effective business, academic and cultural contacts
10 September, 2013
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The Ukrainian Week
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The excesses of the EU visa bureaucracy discourage the most pro-European part of Ukrainian society from gaining experience that is different from post-Soviet realities
10 September, 2013
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Zhanna Bezpiatchuk
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Since coming to power, the Party of Regions and Viktor Yanukovych, have consistently ignored the rights and interests of local governments that they said they would defend
6 September, 2013
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Andrii Duda
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Ukraine’s economic dependence on the Customs Union is exaggerated in an effort to disrupt the Association Agreement
23 August, 2013
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Oleksandr Kramar
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Three years after its creation, the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan has proven to be artificial and quasi-effective
23 August, 2013
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Lyubomyr Shavalyuk
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Despite Viktor Yanukovych’s fear of Yulia Tymoshenko, whom he evidently considers his main political rival, he may agree to let her receive medical treatment in Germany. On one hand, this would sharply increase the regime’s chances of signing an Association Agreement with the EU, while on the other, it would create new obstacles for the opposition
23 August, 2013
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Milan Lielich
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The flight of Petro Melnyk, a notorious rector of the National Tax Service University arrested while taking a bribe, from under house arrest exposes the severe degradation of Ukrainian law enforcement
19 August, 2013
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Milan Lielich
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As the civilized world notes the slow death of the printed press, Ukraine is experiencing a real boom in print media
9 August, 2013
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Milan Lielich
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The new “anticorruption” law turns 470,000 public servants into obedient servants ready to fulfil the will of the Yanukovych Administration
7 August, 2013
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Andrii Duda
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Developments in Ukraine and the lack of effect from the standard techniques of the Russian World have unnerved Vladimir Putin. This may push the Kremlin to radical steps to disrupt the signing of the Association Agreement and DCFTA with the EU and to eliminate the threat of a possible shift in Ukraine’s foreign policy after the 2015 presidential election
6 August, 2013
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Oleksandr Kramar
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Chatham House’s James Sherr speaks on Russian diplomacy and the Kremlin’s possible efforts to hamper Ukraine’s real European integration
6 August, 2013
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Bohdan Tsioupine
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The celebration of 1025 years of the christening of Kyiv Rus sums up the failure of Russia’s religious expansion in Ukraine headed by Patriarch Kirill
6 August, 2013
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Andriy Skumin
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Why civil activists in Ukraine face a new wave of repression
2 August, 2013
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Valeria Burlakova
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The Yanukovych regime does not realize all the risks of de-legitimization in the eyes of the people
24 July, 2013
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Andrii Duda
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The culture of 'Muscovite Rus' came to form from two heterogeneous sources. The seed of the religious and artistic culture reached Muscovy from southeastern Europe (Byzantium, the Balkans) through Kyiv. On the other hand, the foundation of the political and legal culture came to Muscovy from 'Ulus Jöchi', better known as the Golden Horde. As a result, the Russian "spiritual culture" took the shape of a familiar European facade, behind which a non-European state infrastructure hid.
7 April, ,
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German chancellor Olaf Scholz says Putin’s comments on US biological weapons seemed like an ‘implicit threat’
23 March, ,
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It is us, Ukrainians, and all the citizens of this country, who must keep studying our own history. To defend our land and our country, we must know it better.
20 March, ,
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86.6% of Russians tolerate and support the potential assault on the territory of the European Union, including: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others as evidenced by the results of the sociological survey conducted by “Active Group”
18 March, ,
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