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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Estonia has fared much better than other former Soviet republics. The Estonian economy has developed rapidly, and society as a whole is very free and democratic. The reason? Not only timely and judicious political decisions, but also the strong influence of Estonia’s northern neighbour Finland.
26 May, 2013
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Kalle Muuli
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In order to avoid continued manipulation by the Ukrainian government, the West should focus on direct contacts with Ukrainian society more, and thus form its own concept of the processes in Ukraine
30 April, 2013
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Oleksandr Horyn
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Estonians took radical action to get rid from the Soviet legal system and laid the foundation for the rule of law, with a clear separation of powers and an independent judiciary.
29 April, 2013
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Erkki Bahovski
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Armenia, Georgia and Moldova have much better chances of signing the Association Agreement in Vilnius than Ukraine at this point. But things may change. The ball is on the Ukrainian side
29 April, 2013
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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The biggest ever leak of information about the offshore accounts of global companies reveal the dark side of the global economy. The lists also include Ukraine’s richest oligarchs
14 April, 2013
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Bohdan Tsioupine
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Life in Iraq ten years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein
12 April, 2013
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
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Margaret Thatcher made Britons feel confident of themselves, and once again proud of their country, and have put the ‘Great’ back into Great Britain
8 April, 2013
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John Lucas
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The Customs Union is causing major economic problems not only for its “minority” members, Kazakhstan and Belarus, but even for the major stakeholder - Russia
31 March, 2013
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Andriy Kovalenko
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The Ukrainian Week discusses Ukraine’s European prospects with Pawel Swieboda, formerly EU Advisor to the Polish president and currently President of DemosEUROPA Centre for European Strategy
31 March, 2013
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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Vladimir Putin has announced military reforms involving a large-scale rearmament of Russia. Success is not guaranteed, but Moscow will be able to do even more sabre-rattling before its neighbours and the West
31 March, 2013
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Maksym Bugriy
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Pavel Khodorkovsky speaks about how his father has become a symbol of political repression in Russia and why he poses a threat to Vladimir Putin
14 March, 2013
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
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Pekka Visuri talks about security policy in neutral Finland
14 March, 2013
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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James Sherr claims that Ukraine’s choice today is between national and clan interests rather than Russia and the West
22 February, 2013
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
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Andrew Wilson, political analyst and Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, talks to The Ukrainian Week about the Ukraine-EU Summit and Yanukovych's tactics in negotiations with Brussels
22 February, 2013
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Bohdan Tsioupine
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The stark contrast between Western and Russian understanding of “soft power” has become evident during President Vladimir Putin’s third presidency. For the Kremlin, “soft power” is part of its arsenal of foreign policy tools designed to re-integrate Russia’s neighbors around a Moscow orbit.
8 February, 2013
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Janusz Bugajski
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PACE’s failure to recognize Azerbaijani political prisoners creates problems for their counterparts in Ukraine
8 February, 2013
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Alla Lazareva
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Stephen Blank of the Strategic Studies Institute talks about Ukraine confronting the growing pressure from Moscow and isolation from Brussels and Washington and the crises these cause.
22 January, 2013
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Stephen Blank
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René Rouquet, PACE vice president, discussed with The Ukrainian Week whether international organizations can realistically be expected to impose sanctions on election riggers and whether Party of Regions representatives will again join the socialist faction at the PACE winter session to be held on 21-25 January in Strasbourg.
22 January, 2013
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Alla Lazareva
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Polish civil and political activist Adam Michnik told The Ukrainian Week about the outlook for democracy in Ukraine.
22 January, 2013
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Olena Trehub
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Foreign Affairs Analyst Richard Heydarian talks about the present status and the outlook of Sino-Iranian relations
15 January, 2013
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Viktor Kaspruk
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Igor Chubais, philosopher and brother of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais, told The Ukrainian Week about the direction in which Russia is moving, how many years the ruling regime has left and relations between official Kyiv and Moscow.
13 December, 2012
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Milan Lielich
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Nicolas Tenzer on how the united Europe can overcome economic and geopolitical challenges
28 November, 2012
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Maksym Bugriy
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The Party of Regions launches yet another campaign to whitewash the Yanukovych regime and discredit the opposition. Its members accuse international observers of violations and struggle to persuade the West that the election was democratic in Paris, and talk about threats from Svoboda in London
26 November, 2012
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Alla Lazareva
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Andreas Gross headed the PACE observation mission for the October 2012 parliamentary election in Ukraine. Before PACE publishes its official report on the Ukrainian election on November 12, Mr. Gross shared his opinion with The Ukrainian Week.
19 November, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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For 21 years now, since Poland moved from socialism to democracy, Polish political scientist Aleksander Smolar has headed an influential NGO, the Stefan Batory Foundation, which was instrumental in developing open civil society in Poland and which has been involved in a number of national and international projects in Eastern Europe.
9 November, 2012
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Oleksandr Pahiria
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The EU hopes for Barack Obama to win the election, yet expects global leadership from any US president
5 November, 2012
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Michael Binyon
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