Former Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko’s icy assessment of the incoming Ukrainian government underlines the challenges ahead.

The new Ukrainian budget aims to rein in oligarchical corruption.

With Monday’s deal between Russia and the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, Putin has managed to take over a Russian-speaking piece of a neighboring country’s sovereign territory. Sound familiar?

The problem of corruption runs so deep in Ukraine that it is a greater threat even than Putin’s tanks rolling over the border.

Ukraine is cracking down on pro-separatist views in ways that are frustrating Western hopes for the country’s post-revolution future. There is a lot of work to be done if the country hopes to apply for EU membership by 2020.

The refugee crisis caused by the war in Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster. And on top of that, it bodes ill for Ukraine’s state-building prospects.

Bulgaria is the most dovish of all the European countries on Russia, according to a new report. Its dovishness has a lot to do with its cultural ties to Russia, which have also allowed Russian organized crime to get a solid foothold in state institutions. Is this what Ukraine will look like a decade down the line?