Before the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus, observers could not anticipate the massive mobilization against the long-lasting authoritarian ruler. It was believed that Lukashenko will duly win yet another campaign under the usual...
The 16th annual conference by Kyiv Dialogue, an independent German-Ukrainian platform for intensified dialogue between the countries, was held online on 2-3 November 2020. The conference was dedicated to the consequences of the Euromaidan...
Sixteen years ago, presidential elections – very similar to the Belarusian 2020 vote – were held in Ukraine. President Leonid Kuchma had no intention of running for a new term. However, he appointed a successor – a member...
The developments of 18-20 February 2014 in central Kyiv when law enforcement officers killed dozens of Euromaidan protesters became a turning point for Ukraine. However, they didn’t become a point of no return. The situation made...
The pause in the Maidan killings probe was caused by the reforms in Ukraine’s public prosecution. Shortly after the Revolution, the Special Department for the Maidan cases was created within the Prosecutor General’s Office...
We know from Christian social teaching that Judeo-Christian understanding of human dignity differs from its civic understanding in treating man as God’s son: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created...
Nobody knows who coined the term “Revolution of Dignity” to describe the Euromaidan revolution. But it resonated so much with the term “Searching for Europe, we found ourselves,” which described the burning...
This – as you all know – not a theoretical question. I will deliberate this question in five steps. 1. The Idea of the „Autonomy of the Individual“ There is a very close relationship between human dignity and...
Read also: 5 years after, probe into Euromaidan killings still not finished, justice nowhere near On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the revolution, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) broke bad news. SBI head...
Reasons for the Euromaidan protests According to the poll results, more than one-third of all respondents (38%) believe the revolution was conditioned by attempt of the team of then president Viktor Yanukovych to usurp power. Some 28%...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
