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Yermak-McFaul Expert Group On Russian Sanctions
The Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions is an international group of independent experts working on the implementation of sanctions against Russia and Belarus as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Yermak-McFaul Expert Group publishes documents, strategies and roadmaps that contain plans and recommendations for sanctions against Russia and Belarus and monitors their effectiveness. The Group's work is used by the officials of the sanction coalition. Many experts of the Group were sanctioned by Russia. List of documents published by the Expert Group: * Plan of action to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation * Roadmap of energy sanctions * Roadmap of individual sanctions * Roadmap of financial sanctions, etc. * Working Group Paper #5 The Case for Designating the Russian Federation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism * Paper #6 Why and How to Confiscate Russia’s Sovereign Assets to Help Rebuild Ukraine The Yermak-McFaul Expert Group was create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer. Fukuyama is known for his book ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argues that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and political struggle and become the final form of human government, an assessment met with criticisms. In his subsequent book ''Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity'' (1995), he modified his earlier position to acknowledge that culture cannot be cleanly separated from economics. Fukuyama is also associated with the rise of the neoconservative movement, from which he has since distanced himself. Fukuyama has been a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies since July 2010 and the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Markarova
Oksana Serhiyivna Markarova ( uk, Оксана Сергіївна Маркарова; born 28 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and the current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States since February 2021. Markarova is also a former Minister of Finance in the government of Volodymyr Groysman and Oleksiy Honcharuk. She was acting Finance minister since 8 June 2018Oksana Markarova appointed Ukraine's acting finance minister , (8 June 2018) after |
Serhiy Leshchenko
Serhiy Leshchenko ( uk, Сергій Анатолійович Лещенко, 30 August, 1980) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian ex-journalist, politician and public figure, Member of Parliament (8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada). From 2002 until 2014 Leshchenko was working as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief and as a special correspondent for ''Ukrainska Pravda'' online newspaper. Biography In 2003, Leschenko graduated the Institute of Journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His career in journalism began in 2000 after the probation at the news program ''Reporter'' on the ''Novyi Kanal'' channel chaired by Andriy Shevchenko (politician), Andriy Shevchenko. In September 2000 he became a correspondent of the online version of ''Ukrayinska Pravda''. He continued working at the regional news department of "''Novyi Kanal''" until Spring 2001 while working for ''Ukrayinska Pravda''. In March 2001 he quit working for ''Novyi Kanal''. In 2002 he became deputy editor-in-chief of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Natalukha
Dmytro Andriyovych Natalukha ( uk, Дмитро Андрійович Наталуха; born 15 September 1987) is a Ukrainian politician and public figure with a background in banking and finance law, as well as in strategic communications. He was named by ''Korrespondent'' magazine as one of the "100 most influential Ukrainians in 2021" as well as one of the "100 most promising Ukrainian politicians in 2021" by ''Gazeta.ua'' magazine. He is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) as 14th on the party list of Servant of the People. He is also chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. He is also active in international politics, serving as member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (where he joined the European Conservatives Group and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights). Early life and education Natalukha was born in Moscow, where his father was receivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the Wikt:Unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada is composed of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies, who are presided over by a Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, chairman (speaker). The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. The deputies elected in the 21 July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election were inaugurated on 29 August 2019. The Verkhovna Rada developed out of the systems of the republican representative body known in the Soviet Union as Supreme Soviet (Supreme Council) that was first established 26 June 1938 as a type of legislature of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR after the dissolution of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, Congress of Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andriy Pyshnyi
Andriy or Andrii ( uk, Андрі́й, Andríj) is the form of a masculine . The name is equivalent of in the . Given name Peop ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Savings Bank Of Ukraine
The State Savings Bank of Ukraine, or Oschadbank ( uk, Ощадбанк), is a public joint-stock company based in Ukraine. It was established by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on May 21, 1999, through the transformation of its predecessor, the State Specialized Commercial Savings Bank of Ukraine into a Joint-Stock Company. The State Savings Bank of Ukraine is one of the largest financial institutions of Ukraine and one of three ''systemically important banks'' (including Ukreximbank and PrivatBank) nominated by National Bank of Ukraine every year since 2015 when classification requirement came into force. By the end of 2016, the bank had 3,650 branches and 2,850 ATMs throughout the country which carry out various functions, such as the disbursement of pensions, social aid, processing of utility payments and other banking transactions. Together with PrivatBank, Oschadbank was one of the Ukrainian banks whose clients' time deposits are fully guaranteed by state l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriy Vitrenko
Yuriy Yuriyovych Vitrenko ( uk, Юрій Юрійович Вітренко; born 17 September 1976) is a Ukrainian businessman. Vitrenko was born and raised in Kyiv before completing his education abroad. He spent his early professional career as a management consultant, investment banker, and private equity manager at international companies in Kyiv and London. Vitrenko is closely associated with Ukraine's post-2014 energy sector reforms and efforts to enhance the country's energy independence. He played a key role in Naftogaz's landmark multi-billion dollar 2018 international arbitration court victory over Russia's Gazprom and has been a vocal opponent of the Nord Stream II pipeline project. From December 2020 until April 2021, Vitrenko served as Ukraine's Acting Minister of Energy. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naftogaz
Naftogaz of Ukraine ( uk, НАК "Нафтогаз України", ''Naftogaz Ukrayiny''; literally "Petro-Gas of Ukraine") is the largest national oil and gas company of Ukraine. It is a state-owned companyUkraine sets gas offer but wants no middleman (7-1-2009) subordinated to the Government of Ukraine. The vertical-integrated company carries out a complete cycle of exploration operations and development of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tymofiy Mylovanov
Tymofiy Mylovanov ( uk, Тимофій Сергійович Милованов; born 18 March 1975Рада Національного банку України, Милованов Тимофій Сергійович (1 September 2019) in ) is a |
Larry Diamond
Larry Jay Diamond (born October 2, 1951) is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford University's main center for research on international issues. At the Institute Diamond serves as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Diamond has served as an advisor to numerous governmental and international organizations at various points in his life, including the United States Department of State, United Nations, World Bank, and U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a founding co-editor of the National Endowment for Democracy's ''Journal of Democracy''. He is also a coordinator of the Hoover Institution's Iran Democracy Project, along with Abbas Milani and Michael McFaul. Education Diamond obtained a B.A. degree in Political Organization and Behavior in 1974, an M.A. degree from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
