Here is the latest Freedom House “Nations in Transit Report” on Ukraine. Nothing really surprising in what is going in the right and wrong direction that you cannot read in this blog or countless others like it. So as there is nothing really new in the report to regular readers of this blog why am [...]

On numerous occasions over the past few years within this blog – too many to link to in fact – I have pondered the wisdom of the EU in tying the Association Agreement to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement in relation to Ukraine. Naturally I can see the realpolitik of tying political reform [...]

And so it has come to pass, as written a few days ago, that the “Grand Unification Congress” amongst the Ukrainian opposition has seen Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna Party assimilate Arseney Yatseniuk’s Front for Change Party and the Reform and Order Party of Serhiy Sobolev – Yatseniuk and Sobolev both unsurprisingly managing to find high ranking [...]