As British investigators probe the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, international consensus continues to grow that Moscow was behind the attempted assassination. EU Heads of State and Government have voiced...
The European Union, whose destabilization has been one of the main goals of Putin’s foreign policy, exists and resists. The expulsion of Russian diplomats from the countries of the European Union and the United States will be an...
IRI’s Center for Insights in Survey Research held a public opinion survey of the residents of Ukraine from 9 June to 7 July 2017. The survey polled 2,400 permanent residents of Ukraine aged 18 and older throughout Ukraine sampling...
A few days ago, Karine Gevorkyan, a leading Yerevan orientalist, said that Armenia, as a result of the shortcomings of its own government, the influence of the Armenian diaspora, and the work for Western governments, is rapidly drifting...
The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, in his interview with leading world media, has clearly outlined his vision for the European Union. It is a union of values and not a supermarket, he said. For the first time in many years, these...
US President Donald Trump has proposed cutting all assistance to the democratic opposition in Belarus, a move that if copied by European countries which currently provide far more aid, could make the future of Belarus ever bleaker,...
This year, Ukraine celebrated the 25th anniversary of its independence. It seems that Ukraine is still in search of its identity. We often hear the term “Kozak state”. What do these words mean? The idea of a “Kozak state”...
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,...
On December 18, 2015, the European Commission approved the report on the implementation of the Visa Liberalization Action Plan (VLAP) by Ukraine, while in April it recommended that the EU Council granted us a visa-free regime. However, the...
The vote by the French Senate of a “resolution” on EU sanctions against Russia is both a motive of relief and anger. Relief: to secure the vote of a broad majority of senators, the resolution was designed by its sponsors NOT to call...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
