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		<title>Back in Black &#8211; (Ukraine&#8217;s shadowy economy that is)</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/back-in-black-ukraines-shadowy-economy-that-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years this blog has been running, it has touched upon the size of the &#8220;black economy&#8221; several times and puzzled over just how large it is. There have been previous guesstimates from various political figures over the year ranging between 60% and 80%.  A truly outrageous percentage and one suspected somewhat embellished for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6240&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU Foreign Policy &#8211; The school report says &#8220;Could do better&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/eu-foreign-policy-the-school-report-says-could-do-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, following on from yesterday&#8217;s post relating to Russian soft power and how it affects Ukraine, it is only right to look at the other geopolitical actor seeking to influence the nation, the EU. Today those very clever people at  The European Council on Foreign Relations publish their annual scorecard on EU foreign policy relating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6225&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian soft power in Ukraine</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/russian-soft-power-in-ukraine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why the EU, which possesses nothing but soft power (when it can agree internally to use it), struggles when up against Russian soft power in Ukraine? Well here is one of the most perceptive pieces of writing on the subject I have read in the last decade. My cap is necessarily doffed, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6216&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine&#8217;s &#8220;To Do&#8221; list from the Council of Europe</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/ukraines-to-do-list-from-the-council-of-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent PACE/Council of Europe draft resolution on &#8220;The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine&#8221; has had the Ukrainian media, whether favourable to the government or unfavourable to the government, picking and choosing selected parts of the 15 page resolution without linking to the entire document. Well as you can see, above there is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6209&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine&#8217;s next first lady of politics?</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/ukraines-next-first-lady-of-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As is always the case in politics, the demise or difficult circumstances of a fellow politician, from your own party or another, presents itself as an opportunity for those of such a mindset. Amongst Ms Tymoshenko&#8217;s party, prior to her incarceration, was a lady called Natalia Korolevska.  A stalwart Tymoshenko advocate as you would expect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6197&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developing civil society &#8211; A Ukrainian government responsibility?</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/developing-civil-society-a-ukrainian-government-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whose responsibility is it to develop civil society/NGOs? Yes once more I am banging the civil society/NGO drum.  For those of you who read this blog regularly,  it is becoming something of a secondary theme to all things Ukrainian.  If you are not a regular reader, just put NGO in the search facility of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6189&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s gold in them there hills!  Well Lugansk actually</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/theres-gold-in-them-there-hills-well-lugansk-actually/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s gold in them there hills! Well actually there isn&#8217;t.  Or maybe there is, but this is not the Klondike.  I am actually writing about a gold mine.  Not a metaphorical gold mine but an actual gold mine. I am talking about the Bobrikova deposit in Lugansk which has attracted the attention of the Australians. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6183&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine to resume Carbon Credit trading</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/ukraine-to-resume-carbon-credit-trading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the powers that be have decided to reenter the Carbon Credit trading market after a 2 year absence following a complaint from Japan about breaches to the Kyoto Protocol and the funds it paid for AAU&#8217;s from Ukraine apparently not going into strictly environmental budgets as per contracts here. Yes of course Ms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6173&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laundered cash &#8211; UESU and Ukraine</title>
		<link>http://odessablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/laundered-cash-uesu-and-ukraine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, aside from the political repercussions of Pavel Lazarenko&#8217;s forthcoming release which I wrote about at the beginning of the year and the fallout likely to hit Ms Tymoshenko who is currently under investigation for her alleged role in these nefarious dealings, is there another reason Ukraine has an interest? Well, of course there is. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6180&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Odessa City Hall &#8211; Still a cesspit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning my attention to local politics, way back in May 2010, the UK Ambassador, British Council regional director etc. visited Odessa just prior to the Mayoral elections. Being invited to attend and exchange views with Her Majesty&#8217;s representative in Ukraine (and others), I duly did so.  Inevitably the subject of the forthcoming Mayoral election arose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=odessablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6821540&amp;post=6162&amp;subd=odessablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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