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Brian Bonner: ​Poroshenko-Yatsenyuk going way of Yushchenko-Tymoshenko in corruption fight

That’s my conclusion after listening to two days of panel discussions at the 12th annual Yalta European Strategy taking place for the second year in …
Brian Bonner

​Economy minister explains delays in privatization

Nearly two years after the start of the EuroMaidan Revolution, Ukraine has failed to carry out large-scale privatization. To many, it looks as if …
Oleg Sukhov

Bernard-Henri Levy: Ukraine ‘exhausted but still on its feet’

Q: You took part in the 12th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting (Sept. 10–12). What are your impressions? BHL: I was struck by Victor Pinchuk’s …
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Brian Bonner: Saying yes to YES

“The two-page photo spread from Yalta in this week’s ‘Sobitiya’ magazine was nauseating enough. The saccharine images in this sister publication of …
Brian Bonner

Lutsenko says Interior Ministry delaying police reform

Speakers at the forum agreed that, without reforming its police and military, Ukraine would not be able to properly resist Russian aggression. “There …
Oleg Sukhov

With no anti-corruption prosecutor, Sytnyk says future of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Bureau in doubt

The chief anti-corruption prosecutor is expected to work in tandem with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to prosecute top-level graft. The bureau …
Oleg Sukhov

S​aakashvili says Ukraine run by ‘shadow’ oligarchic government

“We certainly have the reality of some kind of shadow, parallel government,” he said. “You can describe Ukraine as a joint-stock company owned by …
Oleg Sukhov

In decentralization debate, protesters remind Lyovochkin of the ousted regime he served

Sergiy Lyovochkin, a lawmaker from the Opposition Bloc tied to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, was interrupted by audience …
Allison Quinn

Four questions with Swedish Ambassador Andreas von Beckerath

KP: Ukraine is fighting a war on two fronts – against Russia in the east and internally combating corruption. Historically, countries that have fought …
Mark Rachkevych

Elton John brings star power, message of tolerance to Kyiv

John, 68, was accompanied by his partner, David Furnish, on at least his fifth visit to Ukraine. He came with a simple plea for Ukrainians to support …
Brian Bonner

Ukraine ministers say corrupt law enforcement, bureaucrats block reforms and justice

Despite the entry of new officials to government ministries and new lawmakers to parliament, a select group of individuals continue to sabotage …
Allison Quinn

Russian economist Inozemtsev: Europe doesn’t have strategy for Putin or ‘post-Putin’ Russia

Inozemtsev had just arrived from a four-month fellowship at the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia in Berlin …
Mark Rachkevych

​Analyst says Russian propaganda destroyed border between fact, fiction

“Back in the 20th century we had a very clear perception of what propaganda was,” Pomerantsev said at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv, …
Oleg Sukhov

​Yatsenyuk says he can’t do much about corruption in Ukraine

On the final day of the Yalta European Strategy, Sackur asked Yatsenyuk to name one person who has been convicted of major corruption in Ukraine since …
Brian Bonner

Kuchma says sending peacekeepers to Donbas is only solution to Russia’s war

“The main solution in the future is a peacekeeping mission under the aegis of the United Nations, the UN Security Council or the European Union,” he …
Oleg Sukhov

Brian Bonner: The Donald speaks about The Ukraine

Douglas Schoen, a Democratic pollster and political consultant to such luminaries as Bill and Hillary Clinton, did the honors of sitting on stage with …
Brian Bonner

Ukraine shouldn’t expect much more Western financial help, speakers say

“The rest of the world can never want economic reform in any country more than the people who live there and the government of that country,” said …
Brian Bonner

Ukraine’s long-term energy security within reach, practitioners say

That’s what the main message was on the energy panel at the 12th annual Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv on Sept. 11. Naftogaz CEO Andriy …
Mark Rachkevych
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