Fending Off the Aggressor

UKRAINE - Report 27 May 2014 by Vladimir Dubrovskiy and Dmytro Boyarchuk

Executive Summary Criminal violence is exploding throughout Eastern Ukraine, while the economy sinks further into the red. Yet positive developments under the surface lead us to take an optimistic outlook. Ukrainian society is sick, and the road to recovery will be hard. But at least the patient has stabilized, and is showing a passionate will to live. Ukrainians’ election of the oligarch Petro Poroshenko by an apparent landslide reflects the need for a credible president now, rather than any particular affinity for Poroshenko the man. The official results are likely to be in the vicinity o...

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