economy, the European CIS-countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakstan) still hang on to some type of state-planning and a … economics and policy: Ukraine. Just like its fellow CIS-countries, Ukraine has quickly succeeded macroeconomic stability, but … insufficient structural reform may prevent a sustained economic development process. Our thesis is that Ukraine is at present …

transiting countries, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The development of a new transit corridor through Belarus (the Yamal …-Europe pipeline), depriving Ukraine of its former monopoly, has modified the situation profoundly. The thrust of the paper is an … analysis of the strategies that Ukraine and Belarus may pursue in transiting Russian gas: non-cooperative duopoly, cooperative …