Edward Chow: Ukraine's energy system 'optimized for corruption'

Editor's Note: The following is testimony given to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 1 by Edward C. Chow.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on European Affairs Hearing
“Ukraine at a Crossroads: What’s at Stake for the U.S. and Europe?”
Feb. 1, 2012

Opening Statement by
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow
Energy and National Security Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
2 days ago at 21:56 | Edward C. Chow

Damon Wilson: Ukraine's economy suffers from 'widespread, top-down corruption' Editor's Note: The following is testimony by Damon M. Wilson, executive vice president of the Atlantic Council, before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1.

Ukraine at a Crossroads: What’s at Stake for the United States and Europe

Subcommittee on European Affairs
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

February 1, 2012

Testimony by Damon M. Wilson
Executive Vice President Atlantic Council
2 days ago at 23:13 | Damon Wilson
Steven Pifer: US, EU should consider visa bans in protest of Yanukovych's anti-democratic policies Editor's Note: The following is a statement before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer on Feb. 1.

Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on European Affairs

Developments in Ukraine and Implications for U.S. Policy

Steven Pifer

Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe
The Brookings Institution

February 1, 2012
2 days ago at 23:00 | Steven Pifer
Eugenia Tymoshenko asks Americans 'to speak out, loudly and clearly' for human rights in Ukraine Editor's Note: The following is testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., by Eugenia Tymoshenko Carr, daughter of imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Testimony
Eugenia Tymoshenko Carr
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the U.S. and Europe?
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
2 days ago at 22:44 | Eugenia Carr
Who’s afraid of  Tymoshenko? Two Viktors, that’s who Alexander J. Motyl writes: Why would two such different policymakers share the same fear and loathing of Tymoshenko?
2 days ago at 22:00 | Alexander J. Motyl
Was justice served in Tymoshenko case? Viacheslav Pikhovshek writes: Ukraine’s courts have ruled, and no one is above law of the land.
2 days ago at 21:53 | Viacheslav Pikhovshek
Yanukovych is guilty of judicial tyranny, cowardly behavior Bishop Paul Peter Jesep: Viktor Fedorovych mocked justice, compromised democracy and damdged Ukraine's standing in the world
2 days ago at 21:39 | Bishop Paul Peter Jesep
Vox Populi with Brian Bonner: What could Yanukovych do to signal a better investment climate? The Kyiv Post attended the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine’s annual members' appreciation reception on Jan. 31 at the InterContinental Hotel. We asked: What could President Viktor Yanukovych do tomorrow to signal a better investment climate?
2 days ago at 21:27 | Brian Bonner
EBA: Agriculture, IT and fast-moving consumer goods show investment promise Despite projections of a general economic slowdown, the European Business Association reckons that certain spheres to be of stable interest for investments and those displaying some growth and development. It is the agriculture sector, the information technology industry and the fast-moving consumer goods and retail sphere.

Despite the continuous demand in respective products and services, these three spheres are far from being well regulated and still need some clarity and transparent legislation to function properly.
2 days ago at 16:13 | Anna Derevyanko
Digital Tonto: Why Windows 8 will put Microsoft back on top What happened to the Death Star?
2 days ago at 14:06 | Greg Satell
EurActiv: 'Occupy monopolies' through social media Social networks can act as a catalyst to help direct democracy prevail over current economic and political monopolies, writes Viktor Tkachuk from the "People First" organisation in Ukraine. "History repeats itself. The cycle of relations between the rich and the poor again recalls a front line. The sees of a modern crisis of relations can be found in the triangle of the migration policy - social security - democracies practise. Read the report here.
3 days ago at 15:07