With the New Year looming, here are 12 of my blogs from 2011:
- January: Is Ukraine Free? (Freedom House rankings)
- February: MI6, Art and Freedoms (“A Year with MI6”)
- March: Brilliant British Business in Ukraine (British Business Days)
- March: Down Syndrome: “Let Us In!” (Down Syndrome in the UK and Ukraine)
- April: What I think about Ukraine (Oxford speech)
- May: Life lessons from Deep Purple (British rockers in Kyiv)
- June: The teenage traffic victim (road safety and the traffic police)
- July: Justice and politics in Ukraine (trials of opposition leaders)
- August: Ukraine: hand grenades in the polygon (military co-operation)
- September: Tymoshenko in Yalta (trials of opposition leaders)
- October: Back to the Café in Shanghai (Business climate)
- December: Donetsk, Ukraine and the EU (Donetsk speech)
These aren’t necessarily my best or most important blogs, but I hope they illustrate some themes of 2011 and the scope of the embassy’s work. We’re still working to update all our links after our move to a new web-platform; but do feel free to navigate from these blogs to others on similar subjects, or indeed read the whole collection.
Happy New Year!