Image by premier.gov.ru Ukraine is obviously a very unstable place. Corruption there is still ubiquitous. Car bombings are becoming frequent again. War simmers in the East. Strongmen control the strings of power. Criminal Investigations and stings, legitimate and corrupt, escalate in all directions. Ukraine has even impacted the United States…
Saakashvili Calls For New Maidan Protest Camp.
Saakashvili Says He’ Ready To Be Prime Minister.
Image by Kremlin.ru Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, met in the United Arab Emirates on the 2nd of November. The two leaders primarily discussed trade and economic cooperation. “Our trade and economic cooperation is increasingly vibrant. In spite of various difficulties and obstacles, our…
Corruption Problem In Ukraine Cuts Far Deeper Than Many Know.
Therapists say it takes five years to get over a divorce, emotionally and financially. For Serhei Rybalka, a Ukrainian businessman, it looks like it will take longer, if ever. The problem is, Mr. Rybalka’s former wife is the daughter of Ukrainian oligarch, Gennadiy Butkevich, the owner of the ATB corporation,…
Saakashvilli Shows At Rally In Kyiv And Says Poroshenko Must Go.
Image by President.gov.ua In a recent meeting between U.S. President Donald J Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Trump asked Poroshenko to “take good care of U.S. companies.” He said it twice. “…They [American companies] see a tremendous potential…
Image by NEWS UTR Sergey Kaplin, a Ukrainian MP, posted on his Facebook page recently that he plans on running for the presidency of Ukraine as the nominee of a united Socialist Party. The current president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has not said whether he will run for another term…