The aggressive behavior of Russia after quick collapse of Viktor Yanukovych’s political regime, especially in Crimea, is threatening Ukraine’s territorial integrity and political sovereignty. It should stimulate official Kyiv to making urgent efforts on the path of calming down Russia and ensuring Moscow that the new Government of Ukraine will remain interested in continuation of cooperation with Russia in nuclear energy, airplane and military industries. 

The acting foreign minister Leonod Kozhara is preparing the corruption scheme which is solely aimed at using the state budget resources for personal enrichment of the minister and his close partners.

According to the accumulated recent data statistics on the development of the 83 Russian regions, rather difficult political and economical perspective could be predicted for its neighboring country. Difficult situation in the Russian regions has already leaded to covert rebellion. Ukrainian officials should think twice before deciding to turn to the Customs Union instead of the EU perspectives.

The failure in signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union considered by Russian diplomacy as an important victory achieved on the way of formation in 2015 of a new interstate association - the Eurasian Economic Union. For further successful continuation of these efforts Russia is planning to launch the special operations against the member of the European Parliament who provided significant support for the Eastern Partnership countries.

During last two weeks the United States and the European Union has began to speak loudly about the possible implication of the international economical and political sanctions towards Ukraine. Proceeding from the Western’s serious intentions, the needs for detailed explanations what sanctions could be applied to Ukrainian politicians appeared suddenly. Therefore analysts have examined the different form of international sanctions that might be imposed as towards the Ukrainian personalities as well as the biggest companies such as the SKM-group, SMART-group, GDF, Ferrexpo and UkrSpezExport.

In December 2013 the mass-media of Germany confirmed the rumor that the German Government is ready to make a political bet on Volodymyr Klitschko. Because the German mass-media just reconfirmed the assumption made by the Geostrategy in August 2012 the analysts decided to take a more deep look on this important political issue.

The latest developments in the United States – Iran relations are staring to change the geopolitical checks and balances in the Caucuses regions settled up within the Soviet era. But now those obvious improvements between Washington and Teheran appeared on November 2013 might reflect on the whole Caucuses region and especially on the perspective of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. What does it mean for Ukraine?

The Geostrategy Group has learned the details from the meeting between the Prime Minister Azarov and Ambassadors of the EU member states, the USA and Canada, as well as head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine that was held in Kyiv on 2 December, 2013. According to our sources, the Ukrainian Prime Minister sent disturbing political signal to the West.

On November 30, 2013 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent to all embassies and general consulates of Ukraine abroad urgent press-release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which states that peaceful protesters on Independence Square in Kyiv provoked a conflict with the "Berkut", which led to a massive beating peaceful young people on the night of 29 to 30 November. Group publishes original document. 

Trajectories of the dialogue between "Ukraine - EU" and "Ukraine - Russia" are giving the ground to believe that during the second half of October - early November 2013 the risk of failure of the signing of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine has been sharply increased. According to sources close to the political decision-making in the Berlin office of the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, she decided not to support the proposal on the signing of the Association Agreement with Ukraine. What scenarios can be realized in this matter?