--- title: Debt: Don't Let Ukraine Become the Next Greece description: Keeping Ukraine from following Greece into oblivion. Also, The web that could spark revolutions and free people is dying, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3960895/ukraine-greece/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-16T16:01:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:27.354Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Don't Let Ukraine Become the Next Greece og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3960895/ukraine-greece/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Don't Let Ukraine Become the Next Greece twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Don't Let Ukraine Become the Next Greece by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 16, 2015 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 16, 2015 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**Don’t let Ukraine become the next Greece.**](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/14/ukraine%5Fshould%5Fnot%5Fbecome%5Fthe%5Fnext%5Fgreece%5F127372.html "undefined") By Philip Zelikow in RealClearPolitics **2\.** [**The Web that could spark revolutions and free people is dying.**](https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426 "undefined") By Hossein Derakhshan in Matter **3\.** [**Fracking produces millions of gallons of polluted water every day. One company figured out how to clean it.**](http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/cheaper-fracking-water-treatment-0716 "undefined") By Rob Matheson at the MIT News Office **4\.** [**Find out why one school district is buying body cameras — for principals.**](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2015/07/05/body-cameras-burlington-schools/29746803/ "undefined") By Mackenzie Ryan in the Des Moines Register **5\.** [**Listen to what women say, not how they say it.**](http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/07/can-we-just-like-get-over-the-way-women-talk.html "undefined") By Ann Friedman in the Cut  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3960895/ukraine-greece/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3960895/ukraine-greece/"},"headline":"Don't Let Ukraine Become the Next Greece","datePublished":"2015-07-16T16:01:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:27.354Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3960895/ukraine-greece/","keywords":["Innovation","Ukraine","Iran","fracking","Blog","body cameras"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3960895/ukraine-greece/","name":"Don't Let Ukraine Become the Next Greece"}}]}] ```