Ukraine’s great silence

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Gary Scarrabelotti

Kyiv, Ukraine: Don’t mention “the banks” within earshot of the President.

Far from displaying confidence-building competence, America’s pick as Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has lost control of events catastrophically. 

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Politics rules and budgets bow

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Gary Scarrabelotti

Wilkins Micawber: Scarra Blog inspiration

Thoughts from a neo-Micawberite political animal.

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Family tax equity 2016

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Gary Scarrabelotti

Why it’s going to happen.

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Despoiling Ukraine’s middle class

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Gary Scarrabelotti

OB and SAK

Ukrainian oligarch and banker Oleg Bakhmatyuk (left) owes my wife Svetlana Kushko (right) a pile of cash. Here’s how come.

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Abbott and the Taoiseach

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Lyle Dunne

I think it’s fair to say the majority of people who objected were not primarily concerned about cultural stereotyping of the Irish, nor reference to consumption of multiple Guinnesses

by Lyle Dunne

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