Do you know what’s in common between music classes in Japan and Taras Shevcheko, or between Seoul and invisible river Poltva in Lviv? It’s alright if you don’t. You’d need to learn Ukrainian to find out. This summer 22 daring...
Questions of Ukraine-EU security cooperation were discussed on 29 September at Prism Security Debates in Kyiv. Ukraine and EU lack common vision on solving Russia war Ukraine and the EU have much mutual understanding in global questions...
Mocking an armless PoW “Who brainwashed you? You speak like a brainwashed zombie… Who needs you now, with no arms?” These are not the phrases a maimed prisoner of war is supposed to hear minutes before reuniting with his family...
I meet Carl Bildt at the airport on his way from Stockholm to Kyiv where he will be participating in the YES Annual Meeting, also known as Yalta Forum. The meeting was first organized 13 years ago in the city of Yalta, Crimea and turned...
Ukrainian citizens taken hostage by a small group of people I’m very sad liberalization of the visa regime hasn’t been implemented before my departure from Ukraine. But this is also one more lesson for Ukraine: do things in time,...
The anniversary of Ukraine’s independence is reason for reflection. Especially at the time when Ukraine’s sovereignty and well-being face so many external and internal threats. We gathered 25 moments of Ukraine’s...
After the pro-European Maidan revolution of 2013-2014, the country’s mainstream culture rapidly drifted towards the West, introducing the hipster culture of bars and barber-shops, as well as bringing art into the streets of cities in...
On 1 July 2016, the Law on Prevention and Counteraction to Political Corruption (2123a) came in force. Many believe transparency and state funding will help end parties’ slavery from oligarchs to whom politics is the most profitable...
On 22 July, it will be 100 days since the appointement of Ukraine’s third post-revolutionary government. In April 2016, the appointment was accompanied by such a long and exhausting fuss that Volodymyr Groysman’s team was met...
Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman ran Beetroot in Ukraine back in 2012. Ruled by Yanukovych, the country was then way farther from European standards than it is now. However, the Swedes claim “the wind of change” was already...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
