Ukraine's Controversial Transition: How It Became a Market Democracy

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‘End of Communism Cheered but Now with More Reservations. The Pulse of Europe 2009: 20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall’, Pew Research Center, 2 Nov. 2009, available at <http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=267>, accessed 14 Feb. 2010.

A meeting in Budapest on 5 December 1994 adopted a memorandum on security assurances to Ukraine, as the country prepared to accede to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. According to the terms of the memorandum, the USA, the Russian Federation and the UK undertook to respect Ukraine's borders, to refrain from the use or threat of use of force against Ukraine, to refrain also from economic coercion against the country, and to bring to the United Nations Security Council any act of nuclear aggression against Ukraine.

‘Kuchmagate’ refers to the case of the discovery of the headless body of a Ukrainian journalist, Heorhiy Gongadze, in November 2000, and the subsequent unveiling of a tape recording by presidential guard Mykola Melnychenko purportedly linking his abduction and death to President Leonid Kuchma.

‘It's a Gas: Funny Business in the Turkmen–Ukraine Gas Trade’, Global Witness, 25 July 2006, available at <http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/479/en/its_a_gas._funny_business_in_the_turkmen_ukraine_g>, accessed 14 Feb. 2010.

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Taras Kuzio

Taras Kuzio is Senior Fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto and Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa; he is also editor of the bi-monthly Ukraine Analyst.