On January 31, the Polish Senate (upper chamber of the Polish parliament) considered a new version of the law on Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The law will come into force if it is signed by President Andrzej...
Vladimir Putin’s freeing and then expulsion abroad of Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, two leaders of the Crimean Tatar Milli Mejlis, follows the scenario the Soviet Union used under Leonid Brezhnev when it expelled political opponents...
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the largest Jewish community in Europe before the World War II, Ukraine was a cradle of Jewish culture and homeland of prominent Jewish artists,...
The Ukrainian representative at the UN Security Council voted against Israeli settlements in Jerusalem, which led to controversy and a diplomatic scandal. The cancellation of the visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to...
An Israeli-Ukrainian Entrepreneurship Forum will take place in in Tel Aviv on 14-15 December 2016. The Forum offers a new focus for research on the challenges of meeting Israeli-Ukrainian business demands for the sustainable development....
Israel considers sanctions against Russia an ineffective tool for resolving the conflict in Ukraine and believes that the diplomatic approach to Russia has not been exhausted, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Eli Belotserkovsky said on...
For the first time since the 1990s, the number of Jews emigrating from Russia to Israel has gone up dramatically, doubling between 2013 and 2014 to 4685. But this new wave is different from its predecessors in that its members are younger,...
Ukrainian military claimed it shot down a Russian-owned, Israeli made UAV in the skies over Donbas in East Ukraine. The UAV was produced by Israel Aerospace Industries Company and was part of $400 million 2010 deal to sell spy drones to...
One of the most wanted associates of Viktor Yanukovych, the former energy minister Eduard Stavytskyi, has taken Israeli citizenship and changed his name to Rosenberg, reports journalist and newly elected deputy Serhiy Leshchenko on his...
Tel Aviv is radically expanding its good relationship with Moscow. Israel suspended military-technical cooperation with Ukraine – as with Georgia in 2008, when the Russian-Georgian conflict escalated – and revived trade with...
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...
