The aftertaste of banking sector reform

Over the next couple of months Ukraine will be facing powerful economic challenges

Certain little-known facts about reforms in Georgia could be a good lesson for Ukraine

The Ukrainian Week spoke with Germany’s special envoy to Ukraine on reform in governance and decentralization, Georg Milbradt, about German government assistance in the implementation of reforms and about the successes and difficulties faced in this process.

Why are Ukraine’s public finances starting to look shaky?

Reforms in the roadways management system are starting to show results

Deputy Minister of Finance on the revised plans for a strategic restructuring of the state banking sector in 2018-2022

Finance Minister about reforming the State Fiscal Service and other challenges facing Ukraine’s domestic economy

Deputy Chair of the National Bank of Ukraine Council and Honorary President of the Kyiv School of Economics on monetary policy, mid-term risks, fundamental problems in Ukraine’s economy, the role of confidence and the restoration of fairness in economic development

The shambolic renovation of the Central Electoral Commission, which has been in progress for several years now, looks about to be finally concluded. On Feb. 5, the President submitted a list of candidates to the Verkhovna Rada and this suggests that the process is finally being unblocked

Deputy Minister of Health Oleksandr Linchevskiy talked to The Ukrainian Week about the reform of Ukraine’s medical system

Candidates for positions in the renewed Supreme Court have one last barrier to overcome

The amalgamation of territorial communities has been chaotic. This may lead to unequal funding, abilities to support themselves and impact on local residents

Ex-Deputy Prosecutor General on the case of the diamond prosecutors, the threat to reforms, and why the establishment of an anti-corruption court will not heal Ukraine’s judiciary

IMF First Deputy Managing Director on the details and prospects of the IMF’s cooperation with Ukraine

The concept of the judiciary reform was approved back in 1992, and its implementation began as soon as the Constitution was adopted

The Minister of Finance on the new blueprint for tax reform, the campaign against shadow economy, corruption at the customs, State Fiscal Service reform, and the 2017 budget

Head of the Ukrainian State Property Fund on the estimated value of state assets in Ukraine, performance of the privatisation plan, bidders for the Odesa Port Plant and Russian management of Ukrainian regional power companies

After two very hard years, Ukrainians may be able to breathe more easily this coming summer

Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia on the decision-making process on provision of arms to Ukraine, reset policies between the US and Russia, and the need for reforms in Ukraine

Having studied the experience of legal system reforms in various countries, I can say that even though I am critical about every process in Ukraine, still I am an optimist

The dangers of further impoverishment

By the end of 2015, Ukraine basically had all the core anti-corruption bodies

How the micro-merchant crowd lives

Can activists defend community interests even if outwardly undemocratic forces control local government?

The IMF's assessment of Ukraine's reforms and outlook

Ukraine’s banking sector faces massive consolidation and change of owners

Ukraine will face a complete degradation of public services unless painful but necessary changes take place

Positive and negative results of austerity and painful economic reforms

Whose interests will guide the new SBU chief

In an exclusive interview with The Ukrainian Week, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NAB) spoke about fighting corruption in the judiciary, the creation of a “corruption registry”, and its regional management of anti-corruption efforts. Interviewed by Tetiana Omelchenko

What searches and arrests at the Prosecutor General's Office signal

It is usually helpful to understand the nature of a problem before effective solutions to it can be developed and implemented

An off-the-peg decentralization solution to the complex problem of development without effective physical and institutional infrastructure can do Ukraine more harm than good

Major challenges in the upcoming election of regional governments

Oleksandr Chernenko spoke about the main challenges to changing the local political powers-that-be, electoral risks, and the voting rights of internally displaced persons

If you want to save the country from the economic collapse, make protection of SMEs a national idea

Ex-US Ambassador to Russia on the “reset policy”, Russia’s “resource curse”, and main threats of Putin’s policy for the West and Ukraine

Member of Parliament Yehor Firsov on how reforms can be both painful and comfortable

Sociologist Iryna Bekeshkina on the public’s expectations of change, perceptions of reforms, and the government’s lack of preparedness for them

A popular blogger and an active participant of lustration on changes that have taken place at the Ukrainian prosecution service over the past year

Economic reforms are slowly gaining momentum in Ukraine, but the results are not yet in sight

Law enforcement reforms

Ex-Ambassador of the US to Ukraine talks about trust for the Ukrainian government and its will to implement reforms in the United States and Barak Obama’s Ukraine and Russia policy

On the maladies afflicting Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and its chances of recovery

The Ukrainian Week discussed the situation with the new electoral legislative framework with Oleksandr Chernenko, the long-standing head of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and Member of Parliament with the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko.

Hopes for stamping out corruption, reforming law enforcement bodies and transforming the country in accordance with the European values are futile, unless major flaws in the Ukrainian electoral law are eradicated

The benefits and concerns of the budget reform

The Ukrainian Week spoke to former Deputy Interior Minister about the reform of the law enforcement, the prospects of Georgian know-how in Ukraine, and the future of volunteer battalions