Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I did include an article in my testimony that I published this week on this question. The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has condemned the draft law. The Ukrainians asked the Venice commission themselves to comment on their draft law. One of the major criticism

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think it is necessarily a question of Russian bad influence that's going to lead to fraud in an election. Most people already believe that next year's elections will be fraudulent in Ukraine. They've already rigged the draft election law to suit them, and they're going to

Foreign Affairs committee  The best response to this is in comparing Georgia and Ukraine. The average age of a member of the government in Georgia is 30, while the average age in Ukraine is 60. This means that the Brezhnev generation is in government in Ukraine. The generation in government in Georgia is a

Foreign Affairs committee  In Washington I organize a monthly Ukraine policy forum, In June of this year, a few months ago now, the former ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Pifer, in an off-the-record meeting, suggested that it's time the west leaked potential ideas for visa blacklists. They don't have to be c

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the invitation to give testimony to the committee. My testimony is I think available to everybody, and what I've tried to focus on is a slightly different approach, because I think one of the main problems that western policy-makers have in dealing with