University of Toronto censors book on corruption in Ukraine

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Full remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, on his publication "Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption & the New Russian Imperialism", University of Toronto, Canada, 2 July 2015. - Manuscript "Ukraine: Commisars into Oligarchs" censored by the University of Toronto Press under threat of litigation by lawyers representing Rinat Akhmetov - 1:05 Post Soviet history of Ukraine, collapse of Soviet Union, Soviet legacy in Ukraine - 1:35 Canada mid 19th century, USA late 18th century, India after British empire, Ukraine after USSR, orange revolution, Soviet legacy was more resiliant than thought - 2:45 Joseph Stalin, Prof. Paul Magocsi - 3:07 Ukrainian dissidents, political parties, opposition parties, nationality policies in independent Ukraine, economy in Ukraine, oligarchs in Ukraine, foriegn policy, defence policy - 3:46 Disasterous presidency of Viktor Yushchenko was supposed to be break from Soviet past - 4:49 Socialization of Ukrainian elites: Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko, Serhiy Tyhipko, Yulia Tymoshenko, Oleksandr Turchynov, Brezhnev era, decline of Soviet ideology - 5:35 Ukraine's shadow economy, organized criminal groups, Stalin era - 6:16 Crimea, Odesa, Donetsk - 7:00 Canada inherited British rule, parliamentary system. Not advisable, favourable to write about corruption in Ukraine in Canada or Great Britain - 7:43 Karen Dawisha, Vladimir Putin's links to crime and corruption in Russia, Cambridge University Press cancels book contract that exposes crime and corruption by Vladimir Putin http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2014/04/russia - 8:30 Rinat Akhmetov lawyers, libel - 9:20 Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi - 9:40 Authors have better protection in the United States - 10:12 Euromaidan revelations about Rinat Akhmetov - 10:37 $100 billion stolen by Yanukovych regime - 10:48 Finance Minister of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko (Наталія Яресько): 90% of current Ukrainian debt is money stolen by Yanukovych regime. People that benefited the most from insider privatization and government contracts were Rinat Akhmetov, Dmytro Firtash, Oleksandr Yanukovych - 12:00 Praeger Security International: Terrorism, Homeland Security, Strategy - 12:20 Annexation of Crimea, Russian Ukrainian war, war in Donbas - 12:39 University of Toronto. If authors want to write about crime and corruption it is advisable to seek a publisher outside Canada or Great Britain, seek an American publisher - 13:10 Wasting time, effort and life - 13:47 Late Soviet period, post Soviet period, shadow economy, security service in Ukraine, vacuous nature of Ukrainian political parties, Russification of Ukrainian parties - 14:40 Cycles in Ukrainian history, national revival, democratization, free market behaviour, Ukrainian national revolution 1917-20, national communist era, counter revolution - 16:07 Nikita Khrushev, Stalin era, Petro Shelest - 16:32 Repression against Ukrainians, Mikhail Gorbachev This video was not sponsored Taping location courtesy of St. Vladimir Institute http://www.stvladimir.ca http://www.taraskuzio.net Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism, by Taras Kuzio Hardcover: 611 pages Publisher: Praeger (June 30, 2015) This title is available on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Democratization-Corruption-Imperialism-International/dp/1440835020/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1435633639&sr;=1-1&keywords;=kuzio+praeger&pebp;=1435633704240&perid;=1S88E51W9GZRA9S36XFX