Ukraine is one of the largest countries in Europe by territory and educated urban population. It is No. 1 for the area of fertile soil and technical talent; it is the leader in its geographical reach of the largest world markets. The...
Judicial reform has a special place in Ukraine. It was one of the most demanded changes since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, and potentially was among the hardest ones. After Euromaidan, the renewal of the judiciary was placed high...
Keeping Ukraine on the Reform Path Non-paper by Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK Four years after the beginning of Russia’s...
On 21 February the Free Academy of Change in Kyiv hosted a discussion called “Ukraine and Reform: A Success or a Farce?” Oleksander Paskhaver, an economist and advisor to three Presidents of Ukraine, Yaroslav Hrytsak, a well-known...
700 children from 12 neighboring villages study at the Solone school. Last year, the building got a much-needed makeover. Now, the students say that they could only dream of such a school. “Our school looks nice… it is good to...
Satu Kahkonen, the World Bank director responsible for the Ukrainian direction, has sent a letter to the Ukrainian Parliament and President’s Administration, in which she warned about the inadmissability of adopting President...
The International Monetary Fund has officially informed the Ukrainian authorities that the adoption of the presidential draft Law on the Anti-Corruption Court in its current version will mean Kyiv’s violation of its obligations to...
Each time we do a review of any given year, we try to determine the number of successes, failures, “betrayals,”‘ and victories. But when we discuss Ukraine, this approach is fundamentally wrong. On the one hand, our...
The run-up to holidays in Ukraine is traditionally a time to make important decisions, and this New Year’s Eve is no exception. While all attention is focused on preparations for the holidays, the Presidential Office (PO) published its...
During the last week of 2017, the text of the bill on the creation of the High Anti-Corruption Court, the institution which can push forward Ukraine’s fight against corruption, appeared on the site of Verkhovna Rada (Parliament)....
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
