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Maria Repko

Maria Repko is the deputy director of the Kyiv-based Center for Economic Strategy

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Backroom diplomacy and battlefield reality: Ukraine at the IMF Spring Meetings

by Maria Repko
Visiting Washington during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings this April felt surreal. The weather was nice, but the air was heavy with the uncertainty of the tariff war, President Donald Trump's administration’s criticisms of international institutions, and the far more immediate tension of geopolitics between Ukraine and the U.S. As reported by the Guardian, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva quoted the movie Bridge of Spies, emphasizing the need to stay ca