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05 October 2013
Russian intransigence has helped Ukraine’s integration into Europe
VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russia’s president, deserves the highest medal of Ukraine. He has done more for its European integration in the past few months than any Ukrainian politician has over the past 20 years. He has stopped the country’s directionless drift, consolidated its elite, given it an impetus westward and mobilised European politicians. Never before has Ukraine been so close to signing an association and free-trade agreement with the European Union, a step towards EU membership.
1 October 2013
Ukraine’s Bumpy Road to Europe
Nestled amid the green Crimean hills, lapped by the Black Sea’s languid waves, Yalta’s battle-scarred appearance in February 1945 prompted Winston Churchill to call it “the Riviera of Hades.” It still has the faint aura of a seaside resort for secret policemen.
27 September 2013
Guest post: Ukraine’s European challenge
The Yalta conference in Crimea, Ukraine, left a clear feeling of a geopolitical shift in Europe. Not the one 68 years ago at this Black Sea resort but the annual Yalta European Strategy conference organised last weekend by Ukrainian philanthropist Victor Pinchuk with the participation of Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Karl Bildt, Stefan Fule and many other European and global leaders and opinion makers.
27 September 2013
Ukraine Has One Foot In Europe And The Other In The Economic Abyss
But the economic abyss seems less scary than Putin’s embrace.
25 September 2013
25 September 2013
24 September 2013
«Ukraine makes history. It began doing that with the revolution of dignity in 2014, it is not only changing itself but is forcing the rest of the world to change too»