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OSW Studies |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
Full version available only in Polish.
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk, Arkadiusz Sarna
On 21 June the leading Ukrainian media holding UMH announced that it had sold 98% of its shares to VETEK, a company owned by 27-year-old businessman Serhiy Kurchenko. UMH owns dozens of newspapers, radio stations, internet portals,…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański
The presidents of Belarus and Ukraine, Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Viktor Yanukovych, met on 18 June in Kyiv and signed a protocol on the exchange of documents ratifying the Ukrainian-Belarusian agreement on the state border of 1997. The two…
Analyses |
| Marta Jaroszewicz
On 5 June the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine and the Academy of Science published data from the second all-Ukrainian survey on labour migrants, conducted with financial support from the EU. The most interesting conclusions from the…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The first four months of this year saw a strong increase in the trade deficit of Belarus, to the level of US$-1 billion; compared to the same period last year, this indicates a deterioration in the balance of over US$2 billion. In this…
Analyses |
On 31 May in Minsk, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov signed a memorandum of deepening cooperation between Ukraine and the Eurasian Economic Commission (EuEC), which is the executive body of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Całus
The economy of breakaway Transnistria is a peculiar combination of the command-and-distribution model inherited from the USSR with elements of a free-market economy which is heavily dependent on Russian energy and financial subsidies. The…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
On 3 May, Moldova’s parliament passed a number of laws concerning the operation of the systems of justice and voting; the Communists and the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (LDPM) voted in favour of them. The most important decisions…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
On 30 April, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgement on the case of Yulia Tymoshenko v. Ukraine, stating that her detention pending her trial for abuse of power when concluding a gas contract with Gazprom in 2009 was unlawful…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk
On 26 April a government draft bill was put forward in the Ukrainian parliament providing for the lifting of the ban on privatising the state-owned company Naftogaz. The main objective of the proposed changes is to remove the existing…