Category: International Relations

Saving an imagined Ukraine

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Gary Scarrabelotti

Ukrainian bank depositors protest outside their national parliament the disappearance of their funds.

Ukraine’s western friends can’t help until the blinkers come off.

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Ukraine’s great silence

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Kyiv, Ukraine: Don’t mention “the banks” within earshot of the President.

Far from displaying confidence-building competence, America’s pick as Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has lost control of events catastrophically. 

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Despoiling Ukraine’s middle class

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Gary Scarrabelotti

OB and SAK

Ukrainian oligarch and banker Oleg Bakhmatyuk (left) owes my wife Svetlana Kushko (right) a pile of cash. Here’s how come.

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Uncle Sam doesn’t need you

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We could learn from Obama’s unwillingness to dive into another Iraq war.

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Senator Barack makes a comeback

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Obama strategic realist

Obama reconnects with strategic reality.

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