Decentralization in Ukraine implies two important results for long-term economic growth: (1) more local taxes being paid and (2) reduction of expenditures on local government. Decentralization reform in Ukraine commenced in 2014. The...
After Russia fostered a war in eastern Ukraine, doctor Kostiantyn Kolomiyets fled with his family northward. He settled in Chernihiv Oblast together with many other internally displaced people. Like most IDPs, he struggled to find a good...
In his 4 May video address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he can not allow the implementation of healthcare reform in the system’s current state. At his 20 May press conference, marking his first year of presidency,...
The activist was assaulted three times during February – May 2018. First, he was beaten up and spent a week in the hospital. Then, he was shot. Then, he and his girlfriend were knived on the street. Sternenko fought back and killed...
On March 1, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported that all combat units and some small garrisons (indirectly involved in Joint Forces operations) of the Armed Forces switched to a new meal and food-supply system. The poor...
The effect of the land reform regulations for the Ukrainian market After the land market law was adopted in the first reading, more than 4,000 amendments were submitted by MPs to this six-page law. The Ukrainian parliament had to vote on...
It has become a tradition at the beginning of each new year to look back at the successes and failures of the last year. Unfortunately, international readers, viewers, and listeners did not learn much about the successes of Ukraine, a...
General remarks: planned GDP growth, state debt, and the country’s strategy It is worthwhile highlighting some of Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk’s conclusions, comparing the 2020 budget to the 2019. Although Honcharuk came to office...
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...
Kyiv has begun the new year with festivities, gatherings of whole families around the Christmas tree on Sofiiska Maidan, and with a protest against regional police departments: several hundred people demanded a true and just investigation...
On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably sentenced to monstrous terms by a court in Rostov-on-Don. Marlen Asanov, Memet Belyalov, Timur Ibragimov, Server...
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