On 5 December in Kiev an attempt was made by the security service of Ukraine to detain Mikheil Saakashvili.

On 25 November, as a result of an armed coup, Igor Plotnitsky, the leader of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, was replaced by Leonid Pasechnik.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine initiated an investigation into the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.

The fifth Eastern Partnership summit will take place in Brussels on 24 November. This programme is perceived differently today by Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.

Over the past three years, a distinct change has become visible in the ideological discourse of the government of Belarus.

In September, three out of five members of the supervisory board of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s largest gas company, announced their resignation.

On 25 September, President Petro Poroshenko signed an Education Act, which had been adopted by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) on 5 September.

The Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2017 exercises, scheduled for 14–20 September, have for many months been the core of an information war between Russia and NATO. 

On 20–21 July, the Belarusian president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, made an official visit to Kyiv where he met with the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko. 

Systemic corruption has been the dominant problem of an independent Ukraine for more than two decades.