The Financial Times quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Resident Senior Fellow Anders Aslund on the International Monetary Fund’s ruling regarding Ukraine’s debt to Russia:
However, with Wednesday’s move the IMF board has handed new leverage to Mr Putin over Kiev, and created a new hurdle for Ukraine for its IMF rescue to continue.
“This is a figleaf for the Russians. It makes no sense,” said Anders Aslund, a Ukraine expert at the Washington-based Atlantic Council.