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Policy Recommendation Initiative
By bringing together a cohort of distinguished international and Ukrainian professionals and analysts, CIRS creates a... Read more... |
Україна і торгівля звичайними озброєннямиСпірідонова К., Ковбень М., Олянич І., Циганок Г. |
Українсько-російський газовий конфліктОгризко Л., Колотуха О., Шелейко О., Корж Ю., Мамедлі П., Бабабейлі З. |
Імперіалістичні тенденції у зовнішній політиці РФ на прикладі АР КримНаталі Ватаманюк |
Зовнішньополітична концепція УкраїниКожухар А., Герасименко Л., Гудзь Я., Кияниця Л., Костюченко Д., Лісовенко Р., Мінгазутдінова Г., Погосян Г., Чапала М., Шията Т. |
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14th Ukraine-EU Summit held in Brussels on November 22 brought to the Ukrainian side a long coveted prize – Action Plan on Visa Liberalization. According to the Summit’s documents, it defines technical conditions that should be fulfilled by Ukraine to ensure progress towards establishing a visa free regime for the short-stay trips of Ukrainian citizens. This process is viewed by the EU side as a long-term perspective being directly dependent upon Ukrainian Government’s ability to achieve goals set by the EU in the following fields: document security, including biometrics; illegal migration, including readmission; public order and security; external relations and fundamental rights.
Short visit of Russian Prime-Minister Putin to Kyiv on October 28 has provoked a heated discussion amongst the Ukrainian foreign policy experts. Their curiosity went well beyond looking for explanation of the mysterious bruises noticeable on the face of the Russian leader that day. They tried to determine whether the atmospherics of the visit and its results indicate the beginning of the pause, if not the cooling-off phase in the process of the Ukrainian-Russian rapprochement that so far has been taking place at a breathtaking pace.
February 25, 2011 President Yanukovych feted the first anniversary of his election. As it might have been expected pro-presidential and opposition commentators produced starkly different appreciations of his first balance sheet practically on all the points – from economic situation to the state of human rights and democratic development. However, there was one issue where they have demonstrated conspicuous unanimity – rapid and consistent restitution of the executive chain of command, or as it is often called in the post-Soviet space – the “vertical of power”. To reinforce this trend the President of Ukraine has recently introduced in the Parliament two bills aimed at new curtailment of the prerogatives of the Cabinet of Ministers. The latter will be stripped of the right to initiate dismissal of the ministers or create, reorganize, abolish or regulate activities of the state bodies subordinate to the Government, including the key agencies such as the Anti-monopoly Committee, State Property Fund or State Committee on Radio and Television. This might lead to further subordination of the Cabinet of Ministers that is de jure the highest organ of the executive power to the impulses and direct orders emanating from the presidential administration. At least, new legislation envisages that the ministries and other central bodies of power will abide not only by the Constitution and the laws, but also by the President’s directives.
The primary mission of CIRS's Policy Recommendation Initiative is to assist the Ukrainian government with developing a more efficient and coherent foreign policy. Being a natural extension of the Center's research and analysis, the Initiative complements CIRS's efforts in making policy impact in the fields of international relations, regional and global security, and Ukrainian foreign policy.