Category: Ukraine

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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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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After Ukraine

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After Ukraine, upon which East European nation will the West next turn its back?

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Russia’s Ukraine gambit backfires

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Gary Scarrabelotti

But the bear will be back.

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