By Dmytro Sologub (Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Kyiv, Ukraine). First of all, I would say that for me as a person deeply involved into the analysis (and sometimes policymaking) of Ukraine’s economy and financial sector...
By Stefan Siewert (Germany), Ph.D. How the Ukrainian crisis might look like in five years? We look at performance and identify most-probable growth trajectories for the EU, Russia and the Ukraine, analyze drivers, the internal...
By Sergii Meleshchuk (UC Berkeley). On Thursday, July 3, Verkhovna Rada accepted the bill onto conversion of foreign currency mortgages into hryvnyas (286 votes for). According to the law some individuals can convert the...
By Paul Gregory (Hoover Institution and University of Houston). To the surprise of many, but not to those who understand him, Vladimir Putin has upped his aggression against Ukraine in the wake of the shooting down...
By Tymofiy Mylovanov (University of Pittsburg). There is a broad consensus that corruption is the number one problem in Ukraine. This is a cross-cutting issue and no reform can be successful without eradicating or, at...
by Kateryna Dronova (Berkeley, CA). On July 17, 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down with a (reportedly) BUK surface-to-air missile system in the conflict zone of...
By Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley). After years of mismanagement and looting, Ukraine faces a number of economic challenges. The situation is so critical that weak economic performance in the next few years could undermine...
By Paul Gregory (Hoover Institution and University of Houston) California Senator Dianne Feinstein has demanded that Vladimir Putin “man up” and admit that pro-Russian separatists downed MH17, mistaking it for a Ukrainian transport plane. That this is...
By Paul Gregory (Hoover Institution and University of Houston). Around 4:20 pm, a Malaysian 777 carrying 295 passengers and crew disappeared over east Ukrainian air space a few miles from the Russian border. It disappeared in...
