Ukraine also has the potential for becoming an airline transit hub. After the slump of 2014-2015, the sector is quickly making up for lost ground: total growth in the first half of 2017 was 28 percent for domestic and 23 percent for...
What were the main mistakes of the privatisation process in Ukraine? There are a lot of things that are wrong with the privatisation process as it is in Ukraine. It is actually designed not to privatise anything. It is a classic case of a...
Beautiful and meaningful murals appear not only in Kyiv. Recently, residents of the seaside city of Odesa found themselves in the company of four impressive pieces of street art. They are a part of the project Odessarium. For that three...
Anechka returned to the States from Odessa at the end of August 2016, rested, encouraged, and happy. I remember how she chirped to me about her Ukrainian friends, the bustling shore along a gentle sea, and happiness – that special...
In 2014, during the implementation of the “Novorossiya (New Russia) plan” Russian special services paid particular attention to Odesa. For the Russians it was important not only to seize Crimea and to “destabilize”...
After the Euromaidan protesters won and disgraced Ukrainian President Yanukovych fled in February 2014, Russia started a military takeover of Crimea. In parallel, pro-Russian marches and rallies with Russian flags, whose participants...
Should Moscow invade Ukraine, Kyiv stands a good chance of inflicting a strategic defeat on the Russian armed forces and emerging territorially intact. That’s the conclusion of retired United States Army Colonel with more than thirty...
Odesa is not only the “Pearl of the Black Sea” with sun and beaches. In the city downtown, one can also find protesters’ tents in front of the local city council. Rarely do sessions of the city administration headed by...
What Moscow has done in Moldova, the de facto confederalization of that country and its division between eastern and western zones of influence, is what it hopes to do in Ukraine. The Russian approach there is thus important in its own...
In Ukraine, the movement for renewal of power didn’t stop with the Euromaidan revolution in 2014. In the southern city of Odesa, activists have been permanently protesting against their mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov for three months in a...
The fight for its creation was not easy. President Petro Poroshenko, the author of Ukraine’s judicial reform, resisted the idea till the very last moment. The pressure of society and Ukraine’s western partners made him change his mind....
