Now you expect leadership and reassurance from those you put in charge. If you didn’t, in a democracy, you wouldn’t put them in charge. At least that is the theory we all assume to be the case with fairly democratically elected officials. Therefore it is quite natural for Ukrainian officials, in this case Ukrainian Prime [...]
Well you did wonder when Ukraine was going to mirror the political divides of the US, the UK and many other EU nations over the issue of debts and deficits. It seems Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov would take an extremely cautious and conservative view. “We have to restrict, or maybe even completely suspend foreign borrowing, [...]
Well, let us imagine you are given a nation with huge infrastructural needs and what there is has been fairly well ignored and allowed to fall into a ruinous state over the past 20 years. A situation not so different than those faced by international development agencies in many nations hit by catastrophe. Whilst Ukrainian [...]
It looks as though there is going to be a rather painful and quite unpopular few days in the RADA this week. Firstly, the law on pension reform will get its eventual and much delayed perusal. It will not be popular but it is much needed. It was much needed even before the IMF made [...]