In March Ukraine received a record amount of $9 bn from international financial support. In particular, $1,4 bn from the World Bank and $880 mln from the IMF. Both tranches are linked to certain conditionalities which Ukraine was responsible to meet to…
Ukrayinska Pravda publishes essays by the finalists of the European Union in Ukraine project “10 years of Euromaidan. How European values determined the path of Ukraine”
When I grab my coffee at a local coffee shop in my neighborhood daily, I always …
More than a week ago, on March 23, the Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) completed the assessment of candidates for the position of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) regarding their compliance with the criterion of high moral qualities.
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In December 2023, I attended an exhibition dedicated to the tenth anniversary of Euromaidan in Ukrainian House, Kyiv, organized by the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. There were a variet…
I was twelve when I came to Kyiv from Simferopol where only two days earlier “the armed men without insignia” appeared. Maidan Nezalezhnosti was covered with black tar and smoke. Yet, there was something sacredly symbolic in this whole situation, even …
When talking or writing about corruption, the names of officials accused or already convicted of certain official abuses or bribes often come to mind.
But we forget about the other side—people who are demanded money, or enterprises (both public a…
In today’s edition of Ukrainska Pravda Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who met with US presidential candidate Donald Trump on 8 March, claimed that Trump has “quite detailed plans” to end the war in Ukraine and will not be giving “a single penny…
As troops are battling in the East to protect Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty, Kyiv is looking West for long-term security as it attempts to become a member of the European Union. A wartime accession process will likely challenge Ukraine’s tax sovere…
In January and February Ukraine mostly didn’t have deadlines within the IMF’s structural benchmarks. Moreover, in December 2023 Ukraine received the last tranche under the EU Macro-Financial Assistance program and currently is waiting for the final agr…
The dynamics of change and the speed of military events are occurring at a pace that no one expected or predicted. Since 24 February 2022, we have passed at least three stages: a manoeuvre war, the transition to positional confrontation and hybrid war…