Many fear that the inexperienced Volodymyr Zelenskyy may prove to be a disaster as president of Ukraine, making the kind of mistakes that Vladimir Putin and others will exploit to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity and...
As Ukraine’s presidential campaign is warming up, the motto “Either Poroshenko or Putin” is heard quite often. Some people support this call, being afraid of Yulia Tymoshenko, Volodymyr Zelenskyy or other populists who, in...
A Radio Svoboda listener asked me how Russia differs from Ukraine. The answer was self-evident — by the freedom to choose. And on the eve of presidential elections in both countries, this fact looks absolutely obvious. There is still...
The Soviet Union raised “passive Ukrainians.” During the years of independence both the government and employers viewed Ukrainians the same way. Are citizens ready to reject this image? The Soviet system has collapsed in...
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...
