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UkeTube | 18Apr2016 | Brian Mefford  [08:34], [2], [3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef2HIjTPOj4&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm404qd38u0&feature=youtu.be  [02:32]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXP6qRq7_Vo&feature=youtu.be  [05:21]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlb2uGF6Gs  [29:07] -- [4] 20Feb2016 interview

How Groysman trumped Jaresko to become PM of Ukraine

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Published on 18 Apr 2016
Remarks with Brian Mefford​, Kyiv, Ukraine​, 18 April 2016. Brian is a business and political consultant based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

- 0:15 PM Yatseniuk was not going to stay
- 0:42 Volodymyr Groysman, Natalie Jaresko
- 1:10 Jaresko was not going to be a symbolic Prime Minister, demanded veto power over Cabinet, Jaresko was not going to be a mask for government corruption, Jaresko wanted a technocratic government. Poroshenko had political debts to pay
- 2:47 Ukrainians on Maidan were hopeful for Jaresko
- 3:38 International Republican Institute
- 4:47 Poroshenko block, provided Yatseniuk exit strategy
- 5:07 Ihor Kolomoyskyi (Ігор Коломойський), Stepan Ivakhiv
- 5:35 Politics in Ukraine is not linear, dangle names to test reactions, would Western governments and western institutions force Jaresko and block Groysman? No.
- 6:35 Oleksandr Danylyuk (Олександр Данилюк) Minister of Finance of Ukraine will follow the IMF playbook, is inexperienced
- 7:35 President Poroshenko's visit to Washington was to secure continued IMF support for Ukraine

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UkeTube | 19Apr2016 | Brian Mefford  [02:32]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm404qd38u0&feature=youtu.be  [02:32]

Bright new Ministers in Ukraine's Groysman government

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Published on 19 Apr 2016
Remarks with Brian Mefford​, Kyiv, Ukraine​, 18 April 2016. Brian is a business and political consultant based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

- 0:38 Volodymyr Omelyan (Володимир Омелян) Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
- 1:04 Liliya Hrynevych (Лілія Гриневич) Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
- 1:30 Ostap Semerak (Остап Семерак) Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine
- 2:16 Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze (Іванна Климпуш-Цинцадзе) Vice Prime Minister (European and EuroAtlantic integration)

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UkeTube | 19Apr2016 | Brian Mefford  [05:21]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXP6qRq7_Vo&feature=youtu.be  [05:21]

Ukraine: No new government elections until mid 2017

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Published on 19 Apr 2016
Remarks with Brian Mefford​, Kyiv, Ukraine​, 18 April 2016. Brian is a business and political consultant based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

- History will be more kind to former PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Арсеній Яценюк) than current poll numbers suggest. Guided Ukraine through murky waters
- 0:40 Expectation management, Yulia Tymoshenko, Viktor Yanukovych, Lytvyn
- 1:50 Yatseniuk negotiated no new elections for one year - until mid 2017
- 2:37 Fought to maintain two Ministers: Arsen Avakov (Арсен Аваков), Pavlo Petrenko (Павло Петренко)
- 3:19 New police reforms and policy patrol services
- Ostap Semerak (Остап Семерак), Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (В'ячеслав Кириленко). Yatseniuk will maintain influence in cabinet posts. Groysman

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UkeTube | 20Feb2016 | Brian Mefford [29:07]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlb2uGF6Gs  [29:07]

Ukraine: War & recession is time for radical change

Published on 21 Feb 2016
Full interview with Brian Mefford​, Kyiv, Ukraine​, 20 February 2016. Brian is a business and political consultant based in Kyiv.

Note there are a couple of areas where the audio/video don't quite sync up, so my apologies.

- 0:46 Yatseniuk's stay of execution
- 3:14 US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt
- 5:30 Yuriy Lutsenko (Юрій Луценко), Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Блок Петра Порошенка «Солідарність»
- 9:15 Oleh Lyashko (Олег Ляшко), Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko Радикальна Партія
- 9:28 Dmytro Firtash (Дмитрo Фiрташ) arrested in Vienna, Austria
- 10:30 Arsen Avakov (Арсен Аваков)
- 11:25 Volodymyr Groysman (Володимир Гройсман) Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Голова Верховної Ради України
- 13:26 US Vice President Joe Biden
- 15:10 Andriy Pyvovarsky (Андрій Пивоварський), Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
- 15:14 Oleksiy Pavlenko (Олексій Павленко), Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
- 15:17 Natalie Jaresko (Наталія Яресько), Minister of Finance of Ukraine
- 15:22 Volodymyr Demchyshyn (Володимир Демчишин), Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine
- 15:51 Alexander Kvitashvili (Олександр Квіташвілі), Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine
- 16:55 Borys Lozhkin (Борис Ложкін)
- 18:30 Mikheil Saakashvili (Міхеїл Саакашвілі), Governor of Odesa Oblast
- 19:45 Vitaliy Kasko (Віталій Касько), Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine
- 19:51 David Sakvarelidze
- 20:04 Vitaly Yarema (Віталій Ярема)
- 21:40 Leszek Balcerowicz
Famous for implementing the Polish economic transformation program in the 1990s, a shock therapy commonly referred to as the "Balcerowicz Plan"

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