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…
On February 20, the Commission for the Selection of a new NACP Head decided on the list of candidates admitted to the final interviews. This will be the last stage of the competition before the selection of the winner. Subsequently, the commission must…
Foreign businesses paid $40B in taxes to the Kremlin for two years since the invasion of Ukraine. To encourage companies to exit Russia, the G7 governments have a responsibility to define expectations for businesses that are currently not subject to sa…
By Wayne Jordash K.C. and Jeremy Pizzi
As Ukraine moves painfully but with gritty determination towards the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale and illegal invasion of Ukraine, we expect, despite the diminishing attention, that there will undou…
February 20, 2014 is the day that went down in history as the date of Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian Crimea. This was followed by the occupation of part of the territories in Eastern Ukraine, an attempt to create the so-called “Novorossiya”, numerous…
The European Council finally opened the way for the use of frozen assets of the Russian Federation for the benefit of Ukraine. According to the decision of February 12, 2024, all depositories owning sovereign assets of the Russian Federation of more th…
On February 8, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation refused to register Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate for the post of the country’s president due to the “forgery” of some of the collected signatures. His participation in the elect…
The Latvian liberal political party Kustiba Par! has nominated the Ukrainian expatriate Ivanna Volochiy as its leading candidate for the European Parliament elections in June. The party has made supporting Ukraine’s accession to the EU and NATO the pri…