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Ukraine should boost its competitiveness before starting free trade
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
The Transatlantic Free-Trade Agreement (TAFTA) has a lot of American supporters as the USA expects to get the maximum profit from this deal. Former NATO secretary-general Javier Solana, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (USA), argues: “Protectionism is no solution to the crisis, whereas a transatlantic free-trade agreement […]
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Oleg Shynkarenko
Journalist, writer and Multimedia Producer from Ukraine.
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Suitcase without a handle
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
Sasha and I were colleagues in university. He was a mediocre student. After graduation I didn’t manage to find any work paying more than 30 euro a month. So I started my “career” as a clerk in a music shop. One day Sasha dropped by and said he was going […]
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The Loss of Womanhood
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
The first Olena is 30 years old and she “renders cleaning services”. “Please, don’t take picture of me working, better snap my place of work. Look there! I even don’t wanna know what’s happened” – she said to a journalist. Of course few people would like to see even such […]
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Take and divide? No more Sharikov!
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
Whenever I hear about the so-called “welfare-state model”, I always think of Polygraf Polygraphovitch Sharikov. He is a protagonist in Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastic story The Heart of a Dog. In the early days of the USSR, a professor-surgeon created a hybrid between a dog and a man, which turned into […]
