Technology, hybrid wars, artificial intelligence and writing articles are an incomplete list of what we face today. But how do states use technology? To influence conflicts, to form regional leadership, and maybe to develop a […]
12.11.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The United States is drawing up additional sanctions against participants in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline. Restrictions will be imposed on insurance and technical certification companies that work with Russian […]
11.11.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The result of the public health measures imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic imposed in Ukraine on 12 March 2020, which was gradually strengthened and weakened, was that Ukraine had not […]
05.11.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
In recent years, after the illegal annexation of Crimea and the start of hostilities in the Donbas, the expediency and profitability (or unprofitability) of economic cooperation with Russia is still hotly debated in Ukraine. Some […]
03.11.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
In the current situation, Ukraine is a key country in global geopolitics, and it is also important for the future of democracy around the world. This was stated by well-known political scientist and philosopher, professor […]
23.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the President Poland Andrzej Duda will meet in Kyiv on 12 October. According to the Presidential Office, the official visit of the Polish head of state is scheduled […]
09.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson signed an Agreement on Political Cooperation, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership between Ukraine and the United Kingdom and Northern […]
09.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has fined Russia's Gazprom and five of its partners in Europe for violating antitrust laws during an antitrust investigation into the construction of the Nord Stream-2 […]
07.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
It has become casual to call the COVID-19 pandemic nothing short of world war against invisible enemy and thus to declare war both to its cause and the consequences. And while the rush to find […]
09.09.2020 • pu
The Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe on the Evaluation of Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (MONEYVAL) has published a report on Ukraine's progress. Namely, this was in the framework […]
31.08.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Data from Russian registers appeared in the YouControl system. The experts investigated how the picture of cooperation between Ukrainian and Russian companies has changed in recent years and what the situation is now. Despite hostilities […]
17.08.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine’s parliament (Verkhovna Rada) has appointed a new Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. It is the Chairman of the Board of “Ukrgasbank” Kyrylo Shevchenko. The day before, his candidacy for parliament was submitted […]
16.07.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine’s parliament (Verkhovna Rada) voted to dismiss Central Bank (National Bank of Ukraine, NBU) Governor Yakiv Smoliy on Friday, 3 July. The draft resolution was supported by 286 members of parliament. Before the vote took place […]
04.07.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Grain Alliance Group in Ukraine will receive financial support, thanks to a new agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). According to the bank report, a €7 million working capital loan will […]
03.07.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The gas market is planned to be opened for the population on July 1. This step towards the gas market liberalization is the next stage in the Third Energy Package (a set of European Union […]
26.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Continuation. Read the first part here. The Russian Federation remains under sanctions, as no significant progress took place with the issues that have led to these economic restrictions. On Thursday, June 18, it got about […]
21.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 10 June 2020 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Memorandum on fixing problematic issues in the renewable energy sector of Ukraine (the "Memorandum"). The Memorandum was developed within the mediation procedure between […]
15.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The occupied territories of Donbas are increasingly turning into a backward region, where the industry is finally destroyed and the population is driven to the brink of survival. Closure of mines, factories, non-payment of wages […]
08.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Citizens of almost all G7 member states have become less trusting of their governments amid government action in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, according to a survey conducted by Kantar, in May, […]
05.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Airlines throughout the world were among the first to feel the impact of the coronavirus. Air traffic occurred in a turbulence zone: a mass cancellation of flights and layoffs are taken place. One also talks […]
05.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak