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Steven Pifer

Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Articles by Steven Pifer

Aug. 24, 2016, 1:31 pm

John E. Herbst, Steven Pifer, William Taylor: Ukraine at 25

May 21, 2016, 4:51 am

Steven Pifer: Minsk is not working, but Kyiv should stay with it

April 18, 2016, 10:40 pm

Steven Pifer: What Ukraine’s new prime minister is (and isn’t) likely to achieve

March 19, 2016, 7:49 am

Steven Pifer and John E. Herbst: The Obama Doctrine and Ukraine

Jan. 11, 2016, 6:30 pm

Steven Pifer: Ukraine’s challenges for 2016

Dec. 29, 2015, 11:40 am

John E. Herbst, William B. Taylor, Jr. and Steven Pifer: Investing in Ukraine’s future

June 18, 2015, 6:29 pm

Steven Pifer: Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling – What is he compensating for?

May 25, 2015, 8:57 am

Steven Pifer: Kremlin is dissolving Ukraine’s east-west divide

May 11, 2015, 7:27 pm

Steven Pifer: The Ukraine ceasefire is in danger – but the country’s war is still turning …

Feb. 18, 2015, 9:43 am

Steven Pifer: How to arm Ukraine without starting World War III

Jan. 30, 2015, 4:10 pm

Steven Pifer and Strobe Talbott: Ukraine needs America’s help

Dec. 26, 2014, 6:46 pm

Steven Pifer: Ukraine overturns its non-bloc status. What next with NATO?

Sept. 18, 2014, 5:06 pm

Steven Pifer and Strobe Talbott: Time to give Ukraine defensive weapons

Sept. 16, 2014, 11:27 am

Steven Pifer: Mid-September impressions from Kyiv

Aug. 29, 2014, 11:28 am

Steven Pifer: How to stop Putin’s war in Ukraine

July 30, 2014, 11:13 pm

Steven Pifer: US and Russia still have some common ground

July 8, 2014, 9:16 am

Steven Pifer: Watch out for little green men

July 3, 2014, 2:50 pm

Steven Pifer: Putin’s NATO fears are groundless

June 9, 2014, 8:48 pm

Steven Pifer: Settling Ukraine’s crisis

March 18, 2014, 7:37 am

Steven Pifer: To punish Putin, help Ukraine

Feb. 1, 2014, 4:45 pm

Steven Pifer: A Ukraine in crisis between Russia and the West

Dec. 8, 2013, 12:22 pm

Steven Pifer: The US response to Ukraine’s turmoil

Jan. 14, 2013, 9:12 pm

Financial Times: Ukraine is bluffing over Russia’s offer

June 8, 2012, 2:20 am

Yanukovych gets it wrong with West

June 5, 2012, 5:05 pm

Ukraine, geopolitics and Yanukovych’s miscalculation

March 7, 2012, 2:01 pm

Steven Pifer: Ukraine’s perilous balancing act

Feb. 9, 2012, 9:36 pm

US, EU may want to consider visa bans

Feb. 2, 2012, 11:05 pm

Steven Pifer: US, EU should consider visa bans in protest of Yanukovych’s anti-democratic …

Dec. 28, 2011, 8:53 am

Steven Pifer: Ukraine balances West, Russia

Dec. 15, 2011, 8:51 pm

Ukraine facing an unhappy new year

Dec. 11, 2011, 9:55 am

Steven Pifer: Ukraine facing a tough 2012

Oct. 28, 2011, 5:26 pm

The New York Times: Ukraine or Borderland?

Oct. 15, 2011, 2:48 pm

Pulling the bandage off slowly…very slowly

Sept. 20, 2011, 7:57 am

Steven Pifer: Does Yanukovych get it?

July 28, 2011, 11:26 pm

Undemocratic values will isolate Ukraine

March 10, 2011, 10:38 pm

Democratic backsliding

July 1, 2010, 10:52 pm

Here’s the message that Clinton should deliver to Ukrainian nation