Reform Watch
OP-ED
Andreas Umland: Reforms will succeed, but they alone won’t save Ukraine
An handout picture taken and released on Sept. 6, 2015 by the Ukrainian presidential press-service shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde during their meeting in Kyiv.
Will Ukraine make it? Conditions necessary for Ukraine's current reform drive to succeed look more promising than they did in 2013. Not only does Ukraine now have its most pro-European parliament and reform-oriented government since independence in 1991; it's also seen at least four other significant shifts in domestic politics that, taken together, render any equation of pre-and post-revolutionary Ukrainian society misleading.
