The subsidized price of fuels and the systematic looting of PDVSA have led Venezuela to an unusual situation: being an oil producing country, now it needs to import huge shipments of gasoline.
The appointment of a new education minister has caused public controversy in Ukraine. Hanna Novosad, the previous holder of this post, talks to openDemocracy about the fate of education reforms in Ukraine, plagiarism and academic feudalism in the country.
