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The Trump administration also supported a permissive environment for other actors to disrupt Euro-Atlantic cooperation. In some cases, the United States was even a disruptor itself: in Ukraine, Trump attempted to coerce the government into undermining Biden’s credibility as a U.S. presidential candidate, while in Serbia and Kosovo, the United States sought alternative arrangements to the European Union (EU)–sponsored dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina to solve the bilateral relationship between the two countries.
In this environment, China, Russia, and Turkey have gained an influence in Eastern Europe that is commensurate neither with their own material investments in the region nor with the EU’s; the union and its member states together are by far the largest donor and investor in the Western Balkans.
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BORYSPIL, Ukraine Apart from the international airport it hosts, rarely does this suburb 45 kilometers east of Kyiv make the national news. Yet Boryspil was in the headlines on October 28 after Anatoliy Fedorchuk died of complications linked to COVID-19 just three days after being elected to his fourth consecutive mayoral term and less than a month before his 61st birthday. It was a shock to all of us at first…we thought he was in good health, said Yaroslav Hodunok, who, serving as city council secretary at the time, took up the vacant post until mid-November.
The mayor-elect s death was a stark reminder to people in this nation of nearly 44 million that the coronavirus does not discriminate based on status.
By Published Dec. 31, 2020. Updated Dec. 31 2020 at 3:19 pm The empty shells of two grenades that were found near the apartment of anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin’s mother in Rivne on Dec. 30, 2020. He writes that this may be revenge for his anti-graft work. Photo by Popular on social media
Prosecutors say that the empty shells of two grenades were found near the apartment of anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin’s mother in Rivne, an oblast capital of 244,000 people located more than 300 kilometers west of Kyiv.
Shabunin serves as the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s executive board and has been a perennial thorn in the side of corrupt officials and others obstructing reforms.
KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine fast-tracked the adoption of a bill on December 4 that reinstates an integral law designed to combat graft, safeguard financial transparency and hold public officials and lawmakers accountable regarding their asset holdings.
An uproar ensued as corruption watchdogs and think tanks criticized the bill for being too soft on Ukraine’s international commitments to fight graft on a systemic level as Kyiv faces a budget deficit of more than $2.7 billion for the end of the year and questions regarding whether a stalled multi-billion dollar lending program from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be renewed.