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Ukraine president seeks to avoid “chaos and anarchy” as his ratings fall
Oleksiy Haran, a professor of comparative politics at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, explains to bne IntelliNews that the opposition is unwittingly doing Russia’s bidding. “The problem is that plans of the Ukrainian opposition coincide, either voluntarily or involuntary, with the plans of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who wants to see tensions and early [parliamentary] elections in Ukraine.”
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Ukraine at 25: Leaders in Ukraine share their thoughts
Ukraine’s economy is still on shaky ground as the International Monetary Fund has withheld funds because the country’s leadership has failed to implement certain corruption-fighting measures. Ukraine’s sovereignty is also fragile as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine’s east for a third consecutive year. As a result, Ukraine’s territorial area has shrunk by about 7 percent, nearly 10,000 people have lost their lives and some 2.2 million have been displaced, of whom 1.8 million are internally displaced persons (IDPs). Following are their edited comments on the status of Ukraine at 25.
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Is War the New Normal in Ukraine?
A weekly roundup of what’s been happening in Ukraine, with a focus on a main issue. Guests: Olexiy Haran, Professor of Political Science, National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and the Head of Research, Democratic Initiatives Foundation. And from Prague via skype is Brian Whitmore Senior Russia Analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague
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Mechanisms of work of civil-military administrations in Donbas: problems, perspectives
Topic: Mechanisms of work of civil-military administrations in Donbas: problems, perspectives. UCMC, 10.06 Ukraine Crisis Media Center
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Will U.S.-Ukraine relations survive the Obama years?
By Olexiy Haran & Petro Burkovskyi. The Obama administration, for all its diplomatic efforts, is partly to blame for the trouble in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian-Russian Conflict and Its Implications for Northeast Asia*
What implications does Ukrainian-Russian conflict have for Northeast Asia region? In what way violation of international law, guaranties and system of balances will influence both internal situation in the region and relations between great powers regarding Northeast Asia in general and Korean problem, in particular.
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Wir haben überlebt. Über Erfolge und Niederlagen der Ukraine
Die Ukraine muss vorzeitige Wahlen unbedingt vermeiden", so Aleksej Haran
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Experts: Time running out for government to fulfill EuroMaidan goals
The EuroMaidan Revolution was successful in terms of ousting disgraced ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his cronies, and shifting Ukraine back toward the path of European integration, according to a significant majority of 31 experts polled this month by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation policy center.
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Can Poroshenko Control Ukraine’s Right Wing?
The Ukrainian leader’s newest opponents are in his own parliament.
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Ukrainians Impatient With Pace of Reforms
Alexander J. Motyl_________Ukrainians are angry. The standard refrains are that there are no reforms and that Ukraine is worse off than it used to be.
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Surprise! Ukraine Loves NATO
A recent poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation made headlines in Ukraine: 64 percent of respondents said they would vote for NATO accession in a hypothetical referendum. This result marks a landslide — and rapid — shift in Ukrainians’ perception of the European security architecture.
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Support for joining NATO considerably increases in Ukraine –poll
Almost two thirds of the Ukrainian public is ready to vote in favor of joining NATO, and more than half of Ukrainians support joining the EU, according to a poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation in cooperation with the sociological service of the Razumkov Center.
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After year of conflict, Ukrainians believe they’re fighting for survival
Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, which surveys the mood of Ukrainians, said that even as late as December, Ukrainians remained hopeful for the future. But she said the steady beat of bad news, on both the war and economic fronts, had dampened that.
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Taking Measure Of The Ukrainian Mind-Set
How have Ukrainian attitudes toward the EU, Russia, and NATO changed? Is it possible to conduct opinion polls in the Donbas? And why is support for the Ukrainian Communist Party in decline? On the eve of critical parliamentary elections in Ukraine, Dmitry Volchek of RFE/RL's Russian Service speaks to Kyiv-based sociologist Iryna Bekeshkyna, director of the Democratic Initiative polling fund.
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Donbas poll finds support for united Ukraine
September polling shows weak support for separation and that more people want to be citizens of a united Ukraine.
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'A Ukraine Peace Plan That Excludes Ukrainians Is Unacceptable'
A response to the Boistö Group's 24-step agenda for resolving the crisis.
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Separatist feelings are widespread in Ukrainian society
"Separatist feelings don't constitute a tendency in Ukrainian society and are NOT supported by absolute majority of population" - Iryna Bekeshkina comments the situation for EURONEWS
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EuroMaidan stats
A Fund "Democratic initiatives" has made a sociological survey of Euromaidan participants, they have interviewed 1037 respondents (375 - on 7th of Dec, 662 - on 8th of Dec).
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Parliamentary elections 2012: Is Ukraine repeating history?
The last time that Ukraine had a mixed election system – electing half of its 450 members of parliament in geographic districts, the other half through party lists – was 2002. This year's return to the mixed system a decade later, for the Oct. 28 parliamentary election, is instructive because of the high probability that history will repeat itself in the voting results.
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Poll: Less than half of Ukrainians understand rules ahead of high-stakes election
With just six weeks before Ukrainians vote in a parliamentary election that could change the course of their nation’s future, a think tank revealed that less than half of citizens have a clear grasp of new election rules.
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