New independent church and Moscow Patriarchate vie for parishes in Ukraine
On 15 December 2018, bishops from the three disunited Orthodox Churches in Ukraine convened to elect the Primate…
The rise and decline of Donbas: How communists tried to make this Ukrainian mining region “the heart of USSR” and how it fell into Russian occupation in 2014
Despite the dominance of the Russian language and the Soviet image of Donbas as predominantly Russian, 56% of people in this Ukrainian easternmost region identified themselves as Ukrainians.
Fifty shades of Ukrainian populism: Tymoshenko, Zelenskyi, and the Chiaroscuro principle
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to…
History of OUN-UPA: the Bandera controversy that eclipsed 200,000 people who fought for the independence of Ukraine
On 22 December, the Ukrainian President signed changes to the law “On the status of veterans of war,…
New UNGA resolution: Crimea temporarily occupied by Russia, Russia must release political prisoners & stop repressions
On 22 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A73/L.48 titled “Situation of human rights in…
The Resolution of United Nations on the Azov Sea and the diplomatic defeat of Russia
On 17 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A/73/L.47 condemning not only the single fact…
Why Europe’s security depends on a strong response to Russia, immediately
This “parallel legal reality” is not limited to Russian missiles which violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.…
Was Holodomor a genocide? Examining the arguments
Today it’s hardly doubted that at least 3.3 millions of people according to the estimation of the historian…