![]() ![]() Books not found in the library's catalog can be interlibrary loaned, or you can try the Multnomah County Library branch near you. Understanding the Ukraine Crisis: A Comprehensive Reading List- This article features essential reading for understanding the history of the conflict. These resources and lists of resources look at that history. The history between Ukraine and Russia is long but the conflict has many roots in the break up of the USSR and the 2016 occupation of Crimea. To better understand the present, you must understand the history. Here is a list of vetted sources for you. The latest Boley Poll asked about resources you would like to see about current affairs in Ukraine and Russia. ![]() All of us who care about Ukraine must have its back in this crackdown on corruption.Boley Blog: Ukraine/Russia Conflict Resources by Meredith Kostek on T11:34:00-08:00 in Foreign & International Law, News | 0 Comments It must continue to push forward in the battle against corruption to win the war and secure the peace. ![]() Ukraine was right to tackle its own Prigozhins, even if doing so helped trigger the conflict. Prigozhin’s rise as a favored oligarch of Putin who turned on the Russian military is a reminder of the dangers of oligarchy and corruption. It would allow even more scrutiny of our and our allies’ tax dollars spent in Ukraine, and it could help get skeptics in Congress on board with another desperately needed tranche of security assistance. Supporting this fight against corruption is not just right for Ukraine - it is right for the U.S. inspectors general and urge the creation of a Kyiv-based group of international inspectors general to report to the G-7. Congress should codify the ongoing coordination of U.S. But it does mean tying loans and budgetary assistance to a variety of reforms, including legislation giving the anti-corruption agencies all needed resources. Those conditions do not apply to security assistance, which was used as leverage only once by Trump for his own personal political reasons. Supporting this fight against corruption isn’t just right for Ukraine - it’s right for the U.S.Īs with all key Ukrainian anti-corruption reforms since 2014, continued progress will require conditioning foreign aid upon difficult achievements. If he understood how they truly feel about their fight against corruption - that it lies at the heart of the civic nation they have been building since 2014 - he might have known how bravely they would fight for their country with far more conviction than in brittle kleptocracies like Ukraine in 2014, Afghanistan in 2021 and Russia in 2023. Putin should have been even more afraid of Ukrainians' anti-corruption efforts. and NATO accession and risks inspiring Russians to depose their own despotic kleptocrat. Putin fears Ukraine’s anti-corruption success because it closes entry points for Moscow’s strategic corruption, strengthens Ukraine’s defensive capabilities, prepares the country for E.U. The Kremlin, of course, claims that Ukraine is hopelessly corrupt, but Kyiv has had unprecedented success over the past decade building world-class institutions of transparency and accountability. Our new research cites overlooked signals from the Kremlin to similarly find that “Putin’s war against Ukraine is a direct response to Ukraine’s moves against oligarchy and kleptocracy.” We argue that Ukraine is halfway through a generational process of uprooting oligarchy. Even though these attackers were themselves odious figures, local defenders were disinclined to risk their lives for a corrupt government, so they laid down their weapons or stepped aside. Until Prigozhin and Putin struck a deal to halt the Wagner Group’s march toward Moscow, Prigozhin’s advance through Russia with minimal bloodshed was reminiscent of the Taliban’s waltzing into Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021 and Russian forces seizing Crimea almost without firing a shot in 2014. Putin enriched him originally through lucrative contracts to feed Russia’s military and then through preferential access to resources exploited by Prigozhin’s mercenaries in Africa and elsewhere. Prigozhin is a monster of Vladimir Putin’s creation. And Ukraine will need to defeat corruption if it has any hope of winning the conflict and securing a meaningful peace. From the start of the invasion to Prigozhin’s dramatic insurrection, the fight against corruption has greatly influenced the course of events. The abortive rebellion by Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin against Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, has only reinforced the conclusion of our research into the conflict: One cannot truly understand this war without looking through the lens of corruption. ![]()
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