Andreas Umland: Political risk insurance for foreign direct investment in Ukraine
People celebrate the Ukrainian Unity Day with a live chain across the Paton bridge in Kyiv on Jan. 22, 2016.
In 2014, two major events in post-Cold War European politics overlapped in Ukraine. First, the end of 2013 saw the onset of a sociopolitical revolution in Ukrainian society that continues to this date. Second, this was followed at the end of February 2014 by an initially covert and later increasingly open Russian military intervention in Crimea and Donbas.
