Carnegie Endowment: Ukraine reform monitor – October 2015
In August and September 2015, the Ukrainian government accomplished two major breakthroughs. It succeeded in negotiating a debt-restructuring deal with creditors, and it made progress toward parliamentary approval of a decentralization package. The first was an unqualified success. The second was a highly controversial event that triggered protests and violence and resulted in several fatalities, reaffirming that constitutional reform will be a difficult challenge for Ukraine. In addition to these major developments, the government used a relative lull in the fighting in eastern Ukraine to advance several less noted but important reforms.