Although not the first mass protest movement in Ukraine’s history, Euromaidan represented a sharp contrast with the previous popular protests and a clear break with the post-Soviet civil society model. The 2004 protests were led by...
The Rules Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will shortly be considering a report from the ad hoc Commission set up by the Bureau to examine the future role and mission of PACE. One of the points on...
The UK has had for many years a stable democratic process, with strong institutions. But what happens after a while is that those institutions become themselves resistant to change. They develop and operate on the default setting that...
This war which lasted a week took hundreds of lives of Georgians, Ossetians, and Russians, soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to leave their homes in South Ossetia and, before that, in Abkhazia. This war...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
The President is accorded greater executive powers and, as a consequence, assumes additional responsibilities. Unlike in the former system, he has formed the new cabinet of ministers and will preside over it. State...
President Trump has ushered in an era of uncertainty in the Western world. The United States is no longer viewed as a stable and predictable actor, but as a country run by a President whose words and deeds do not always align. Trump has...
One of the most significant international sporting events is the FIFA World Cup. Every four years, fans from all over the globe pour into the host country to cheer for their teams and be a part of the unique atmosphere of competition and...
On May 9, Ukraine’s permanent delegation to the United Nations held a side event at the 40th Session of the UN Committee on Information Security dedicated to propaganda and fake news. It was attended not only by Ukrainian journalists but...
The Stockholm arbitral awards The much-awaited arbitral awards from the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (hereafter, the Arbitration Institute) in the disputes between Naftogaz and Gazprom, which the latter had...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
