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Ukraine Analyst, 2008-2011, Volumes 1-3

Editor, Dr.Taras Kuzio

1.1 (14 September 2008)

 Ukraine’s September 2008 Crisis  Profile. Viktor Baloga, Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Secretariat.

1.2. (30 September 2008)

 Accusations and Counter-Accusations: Who Works for Russia?  Western Experts on Ukraine’s Crisis  The Georgian Crisis and Domestic Ukrainian Politics

1.3 (14 October 2008)

 Ukraine’s Security Vacuum  Strategy for Pre-Term Elections  Paul D’Anieri, Expert on Party Strategy  Roman Kupchinsky, Vanco’s Ukraine Contract: Why It Became a Scandal  Igor Burakovsky, Pre-Term Elections are a Dangerous Experiment

1.4 (31 October 2008)

 Ukraine Needs Stability, Not Elections  Condemning Totalitarianism in Ukraine  Tim Ash, Expert Commentary on the Global Crisis and Ukraine  Twelve Wealthiest and Influential Ukrainians

1.5 (14 November 2008)

 What an Obama President Means for Ukraine  Pre-Term Elections Postponed, Indefinitely?  Georgian Crisis and Ukrainian Politics  Ukraine Party Position on the Georgian Crisis  Tim Ash, Ukraine’s IMF Package and Socio-Economic Crisis

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1.6 (30 November 2008)

 Dmytro Tupchienko, Ukraine’s Rule of Law: Still in Need of Radical Reform  Expert Commentaries on the Orange Revolution  Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, 2000-2008

1.7-8 (16 and 31 December 2008)

 The December NATO Summit and Ukraine  Ukraine and NATO: Time for a New Relationship  Interview with US Ambassador William Taylor  Arseny Yatseniuk: Quo Vadis?  Olga Pogarska and Ediberto L.Segura, Ukraine’s Economic Outlook

1.9 (15 January 2009)

 Behind the Gas Crisis  Oberezhno: Dezynformatsiya  Mykola Riabchuk, The 2009 Gas Crisis: A View From Ukraine  Commentary by Adrian Karatnycky  The Party of Regions: A Profile  Jim Davis, The Cruel Cross-Currents of 2009

1.10 (31 January 2009)  Ukraine Faces Two Strategic Challenges in 2009  Comparison of 2006 and 2009 Gas Contracts  Behind the Gas Crisis (2)  Ihor Zhdanov, The Ukrainian-Russian Gas Crisis: Did Ukraine Really Lose?  Edward Chow, Energy Reform: A Missed Opportunity  Roman Kupchinsky, Who Sought to Undermine Negotiations  Tim Ash, A Good Result  Profile: Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn  Convulsions Surround the National Bank

1.11 (15 February 2009)  US Political Consultants and Ukrainian Politics  Roman Kupchinsky, Covert US Support for Ukraine in the Cold War: The Case of Prolog  Taras Kuzio, Who’s Who in Washington DC on Ukraine  United States-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership 3

1.12 (28 February 2009)

 Will the President Sink the Prime Minister?  Tymoshenko Government Wins Second No Confidence Vote  PR, Foreign Policy and International Image: The 2009 Gas Crisis  Taras Kuzio, Why the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Contract is Good for Europe  Jim Davis, New Investors Put Off by Old Problems

1.13 (15 March 2009)

 Taras Kuzio, The Disintegration of Ukraine’s Centre-Right, 2005-2009  Paul McCabe, President Unites with Prime Minister to Engage the IMF  Ukraine’s Economic Crisis: Will it Default?  Levko Ivanytsky, It’s a Gas. Political Players, RosUkrEnergo, and Naftohaz Ukrainy

1.14 (31 March 2009)

 Ternopil Elections: Flash in a Pan or a Harbinger?  Bankrupt President’s Party

1.15 (15 April 2009)

 Arseniy Yatseniuk’s Three Choices  The European Union (EU) and Ukraine’s Gas Pipelines

1.16 (30 April 2009)

 Populist-Nationalists in Ukraine  Taras Kuzio, Russia Sees Ukraine as a Failed State  Tim Ash, Ukraine and the IMF

1.17 (15 May 2009)

 Bureaucracy and Nepotism  Taras Kuzio, Grand Coalition, Again  Dmytro Tupchienko, Simultaneous Elections  Nico Lange, Ten Steps to Ukraine Joining the EU  European Peoples Party and Ukraine

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1.18 (31 May 2009)

 A Tale of Two Viktors: The President and Chief of Staff  Petro Buslenko, Why Yushchenko Changed Horses in Midstream  Battling Corruption and Political Will  Soviet Bank Deposits and Voters

1.19 (15 June 2009)  Coalitions and Constitutional Reforms  Bohdan Futey, Constitutional Reforms and Legal Chaos  Western Expert Community on Constitutional Reforms in Ukraine

1.20 (30 June 2009)

 The President, Coalition and Government  Taras Kuzio, Who Will the West Support in Ukraine’s Presidential Election?  Ukraine’s Presidential Candidate 1: Yulia Tymoshenko  Paul Goble, Educational Policies for National Minorities in Ukraine and Russia

1.21-22 (15 and 31 July 2009)  Bankrupt, Dysfunctional and Failed. Are We Really Talking About Ukraine?  The Presidents Multi-Vector Domestic Policy  Ukraine’s Presidential Candidates 2: Viktor Yanukovych  Book Review, Gwendolyn Sasse, The Crimea Question. Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).

1.23-24 (15 and 31 August 2009)

 Ukraine’s Presidential Candidates 2: Arseniy Yatseniuk  Pragmatism, Ideology and Ukrainian Foreign Policy  Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Ukraine Mend Fences  Borys Wrzesniewski, The Euro-Atlantic Future of Ukraine – A Canadian Perspective

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2.1 (15 September 2009)

 Ukraine’s Presidential Candidates 4: Viktor Yushchenko  On the Ninth Anniversary of Georgi Gongadze’s Murder  Can Anyone Stop Yanukovych From Being Elected the Next President of Ukraine

2.2 (30 September 2009)  Political Fragmentation in Ukraine: Centre-right Centre-left  Who Will Our Ukraine Support in the Presidential Elections?  Tim Ash, Ukraine’s Economy Hits Bottom

2.3 (15 October 2009)

 Ukraine’s Presidential Candidates 5: Anatoliy Grytsenko  Taras Kuzio, Tymoshenko, Yushchenko and NATO  Tim Ash, Russia, Gas and Jazz  Tim Ash, Restructuring Ukraine’s Gas Debts

2.4 (31 October 2009)

 Presidential Campaign Begins  Business Sponsors and Campaign Budgets of Candidates  Ukraine’s Presidential Candidates 2: Serhiy Tihipko  Taras Kuzio, Party of Regions: Analysis of a Divided ‘Party’  Tim Ash, Will Naftohaz Ukrainy Default?  Petro Poroshenko: Profile

2.5 (15 November 2009)

 Viktor Yushchenko’s Five Years in Office (Part 1)  Interview with Anders Aslund  Taras Kuzio, Yushchenko Leaves out NATO (Again)  Tim Ash, Ukraine Election Politics Suggests IMF Takes a Time-Out

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2.6 (30 November 2009)

 Fifth Anniversary of the Orange Revolution  Expert Commentaries on Five Years of Yushchenko’s Presidency  V.Yushchenko’s Five Years in Office 11  Tim Ash, Ukraine-IMF Relations Take Centre Stage

2.7-8 (15 and 31 December 2009)

 Taras Kuzio, Political Instability and Crises in Ukraine  Eric Jardine, Ukraine-Russia Relations Set to Improve  Tim Ash, It’s Still a Gas  Tim Ash, Ukraine: Questions and Answers on Policies, Gas and Default Probabilities

2.9-10 (15-31 January 2010)

 Round 1 Election Results: What Do They Mean and What Do They Portend for Russia?  Western Ukraine Will Decide Who is Elected in 2010  Tim Ash, Why Ukraine’s 2010 Elections Matter  Yushchenko and Orange Revolution Promises  Viktor Baloga and Trans-Carpathian Separatism

2.11 (28 February 2010)

 She Did Very Well, But it Was Not Enough  Taras Kuzio, Tymoshenko and Yanukovych: Why She Lost and He Won, and What This Entails  Serhiy Vasylchenko, He Who Won Was the One Who Lost the Least  Alexandria Hrycak, Yulia’s Defeat and ender Biases in the Ukrainian Political System  Taras Kuzio, Election Fraud in Ukraine’s 2010 Elections  Tim Ash, The Election Results and Yanukovych’s Options  James Sherr, The Strategic Implications of Ukraine’s 2010 Elections  Anders Aslund, Reform Proposals for Ukraine

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2.12 (March 2010)

 Unconstitutional First Steps  Taras Kuzio, Opposition De Ja Vu With Four Nuances  Myroslava Oleksiuk, Gender and the Opposition  Paul Goble, Russian Opposition Sets Up Base in Ukraine  Kuzio versus Kudelia: Debate on the 2010 Election Campaign

2.13 (April 2010)

 Ukraine Signs 25 Year Extension of Black Sea Fleet Base  Taras Kuzio, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan  Ivan Lozowy, The Maidan Cometh  Zenon Zawada, Ukraine’s Political Crisis: Background and Prognosis  Penta Centre, The Azarov Government  Taras Kuzio, Separatism in Ukraine  Paul Goble, Federalism in Ukraine  Tim Ash, New Gas Price Deal with Russia  Tim Ash, Approaching an IMF Agreement

2.14 (May 2010)  Media Under Attack in Ukraine  Taras Kuzio, How to Fashion a New Authoritarian Political System  Paul Goble, FSB Return to the Crimea: National Security Implications for Ukraine  Tim Ash, Ukraine’s Recovery. But Risks Remain

2.15 (June 2010)

 Taras Kuzio, Viktor Yanukovych’s First 100 Days in Office  The First 100 Days: A Chronology  Nicholas Lange, The First 100 Days: Authoritarian Trend and Rapprochement with Russia  Jakob Hadenskog, Kyiv’s Rapid Drift Back to Moscow

2.16-17 (July-August 2010)

 Taras Kuzio, Ukraine’s Relations with the West 8

 Steven Pifer, Ukraine Not Yet Lost  Vitaly Sych and Taras Kuzio on Georgia and Ukraine

2.18 (September 2010)

 Svoboda has no Place in the Democratic Opposition  Return to Soviet ‘Anti-Nationalism’  Russia and Ukraine are a ‘Single People’?

2.19 (October 2010)

 Constitutional Court Changes Parliamentary to Presidential System  Nico Lange, Between Re-Sovietisation and Corporate Interests  Viktor Yanukovych: The Counter) Revolutionary  OPORA on the Local Election Campaign  Alexander J.Motyl, Fighting Corruption with Corruption

2.20 (November 2010)

 Small Business Repeats Orange Revolution Demands  Alexander J.Motyl, Ukraine’s Orange Blues  Constitutional Reforms, Political Expediency and Rule of Law  Yanukovych’s Honeymoon is Over  President and the Holodomor

2.21 (December 2010)  Stefan Jajecznyk, An Unlikely Victim of the Wikileaks ‘Fallout’  Ukraine’s October 2010 Local Elections Analysis of Conduct and Results  Taras Kuzio, Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy, Multi-Vector or Pro- Russian?  Ukraine Legal Group: Overview of the New Tax Code

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3.1 (31 January 2011)

 Roman Rewkniw, Impressions of an Election Observer in Sevastopol  Taras Kuzio, Ukraine Returns to the Kuchma Era  Stefan Jajecznyk, Kyiv Post, Dmytro Firtash and Libel Tourism in the UK  Paul Goble, Pro-Russian Rusyn-Separatism in Transcarpathia  Taras Kuzio, Serhiy Zhuk, Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985 (Baltimore, MD: the Johns Hopkins University Press & Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010).

3.2 (28 February 2011)

 Taras Kuzio, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yanukovych: Differences and Similarities  Expert Comment on First Year of Viktor Yanukovych Presidency  Vitaly Sych, 30 Reasons to Not Trust the Authorities  Levko Ivanytsky, Pyotr Stolypin and Viktor Yanukovych  Jaroslav Martyniuk, Reflections on the Ukrainian Language

3.3 (March 2011)

 Orest Deychakiwky, Human Rights and Democracy in Ukraine  Paul Goble, Yanukovych Strengthens Vertical But Loses Power  Stefan Jajecznyk, Common Sense Wins in the High Court, But What is the Future for Ukrainian Press Freedom  Taras Kuzio, Journalists Fail to Act as a Fourth Estate in Ukraine  Alexander J.Motyl, Ukraine’s Non-Foreign Non-Policy

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3.4 (April 2011)  Alexandra Hrycak, FEMEN and the Ukrainian Women’s Movement  Derek Fraser  Alexander J.Motyl, Viktor Yanukovych, Terminator  New Anti-Corruption Law Voted in by 119 ‘Dead Souls’ in the Ukrainian Parliament  Paul Goble, Crimean Tatars Press to go back to Latin Script by End of 2011  Taras Kuzio, Obama’s Russia-Reset Masks the Fact that Eurasia, including Ukraine, is No Longer a Ukrainian Strategic Priority  Taras Kuzio, Will Yanukovych Choose the EU or the CIS?

3.5-6 (May-June 2011)

 Time for the EU to Launch a Real Debate and Set Tough Red Lines for Viktor Yanukovych  Alexander J.Motyl, Integrating Authoritarian Ukraine into Democratic Europe?  Taras Kuzio, Is the Yanukovych Administration Listening to the West?  Political Prisoner Yuriy Lutsenko  Western Governments, International Organisations and NGO’s on Democratic Regression in Ukraine

3.7-8 (July-August 2011)

 Taras Kuzio, Ukraine at Twenty: Ukraine’s Road to Independence