|
|
Reforms of the Ukrainian Energy Industry
Balahura, Milan ; Svoboda, Karel (advisor) ; Lídl, Václav (referee)
The energy sector of Ukraine is of strategic importance not only within the national economy, but is also significant from a European perspective, because it includes transit energy networks that are essential for a large part of Europe. The fundamental problem still remains low energy efficiency of the economy, obsolete infrastructure, dysfunctional system and the absence of major reforms. At the moment, another round of reforms is taking place under the influence of a rapprochement with the European Union, to modernize the sector and adapt it to European standards. This work describes the development of the sector and the reform efforts since independence until today with a particular focus on the gas sector and the period 2014 to 2017. This is particularly the developments in the energy market, pricing policies, availability, security and decentralization of the system. In addition, the work also focuses on the development of energy efficiency, the environment and renewable energy sources. Following on the theoretical basis (especially the theory of institutional economics) through analysis of described facts assesses developments in the reforms and their impact on the whole sector including evaluation of the role and influence of oligarchs in these reform attempts. In terms of reforms, four...
|
|
|
Reforms of the Ukrainian Energy Industry
Balahura, Milan ; Svoboda, Karel (advisor) ; Lídl, Václav (referee)
The energy sector of Ukraine is of strategic importance not only within the national economy, but is also significant from a European perspective, because it includes transit energy networks that are essential for a large part of Europe. The fundamental problem still remains low energy efficiency of the economy, obsolete infrastructure, dysfunctional system and the absence of major reforms. At the moment, another round of reforms is taking place under the influence of a rapprochement with the European Union, to modernize the sector and adapt it to European standards. This work describes the development of the sector and the reform efforts since independence until today with a particular focus on the gas sector and the period 2014 to 2017. This is particularly the developments in the energy market, pricing policies, availability, security and decentralization of the system. In addition, the work also focuses on the development of energy efficiency, the environment and renewable energy sources. Following on the theoretical basis (especially the theory of institutional economics) through analysis of described facts assesses developments in the reforms and their impact on the whole sector including evaluation of the role and influence of oligarchs in these reform attempts. In terms of reforms, four...
|
|
|
The Role of Helsinki Group on the Observance of Human Rights in Ukraine
Balahura, Milan ; Horák, Slavomír (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
This Bachelor thesis discusses the history of Ukrainian dissidents, especially in their final stage known as the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. It focuses on the influence of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group on the observance of human rights in Ukraine. This organization was created after the Soviet Union signed the Final Act of the Conference in Helsinki, and was intended to inform the Ukrainian people and the world community about the human rights situation in Ukraine. Although it was a legal civil organization, soon after its founding all of its members were arrested and imprisoned for many years in labor camps and in exile. Despite this repression, and primarily due to the strong will of the political prisoners and members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group abroad, this organization managed to continue reporting about the constant human rights violations perpetrated by the Soviet Communist regime. These violations occurred in spite of that fact that they were the very same human rights which the Soviet Union promised to observe and protect at the Helsinki Conference. The Group's members also managed to inform the world community about the status of political prisoners in the gulags. That information, coupled with pressure from the political representatives of the United States and Canada, was instrumental...
|
guest ::
