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KYIV BLOG: EBRD gives Ukraine poor marks in its progress report
September 19, 2017
EBRD President Sir Suma Chakrabarti gave a balanced but tough report on Ukraine’s progress at the annual 14th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting in Kyiv.
KYIV BLOG: Ukraine headed for a constitutional crisis
September 13, 2017
Ukraine faces a crisis like Boris Yeltsin’s showdown with the communist-dominated Duma in 1993 if President Petro Poroshenko plays his cards badly in his stand-off with former Odesa governor and ex-Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.
KYIV BLOG: Poroshenko's low popularity creates opening for Kremlin in Ukraine's upcoming elections
September 5, 2017
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has only a 2% popularity rating, opening up an opportunity for Moscow to influence the upcoming elections in favour of a new and friendlier candidate.
KYIV BLOG: Whitewashing Ukraine’s murky arms smuggling industry
August 24, 2017
Ukraine’s blitz inquiry into allegations the country supplied rocket engines to North Korea whitewashes over its troubled history of sanctions-busting.
KYIV BLOG: Ukraine’s partners allow it to backslide
July 18, 2017
Ukraine’s international partners that have been propping the war-torn, crisis-ridden country up for most of the last three years are allowing it to backslide on its reform promises for the sake of political expediency.