Ukraine’s overlooked nationalization of strategic enterprises deals blow to oligarchy and corruption Long-standing Chinese and Russian attempts to control Motor Sich have failed Motor Sich was one of the five companies nationalized...
Mykhaylo Samus is a director at The New Geopolitics Research Network and Deputy Director at the Army Research, Conversion, and Disarmament Center (CACDS). He served 12 years in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was the founder (2009) of the EU...
The Kyiv Pechersk district court refused to arrest Ukraine’s fifth president Petro Poroshenko in a case where he is charged with state treason for alleged facilitation of coal supplies from occupied Donbas to Ukraine in 2015. The...
Ukraine’s fifth president Petro Poroshenko, the main political rival of current president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, returns to Ukraine, where he faces treason charges. He returned after a series of international meetings “to defend...
The latest allegations against the former president Petro Poroshenko, under which prosecutors seek his arrest, claim that Poroshenko allowed Viktor Medvedchuk, the wealthiest (shadow) leader of the pro-Russian party Opposition Platform...
The Office of the Prosecutor-General of Ukraine seeks to arrest Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s President from 2014 to 2019, with a bail of UAH 1 bn ($36,7 mn), Ukrinform reported. Oleksiy Symonenko, serving as acting Prosecutor General...
On 20 December, Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko charged former President Petro Poroshenko with high treason and aiding terrorism. A day later, Mr. Poroshenko said in a video address that he is going to return...
On the evening of December 1, central Kyiv was full of protests. Their organizers claimed the mass protests gathered 7,000 participants. Demands included the impeachment of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the resignation of the head of...
Sources of daily corruption Although no country can eliminate corruption entirely, societies that have experienced extreme violence or totalitarianism have a special predisposition for corruption. Why? Because corruption for them was the...
However, Stakhiv didn’t limit himself to anti-vaccination activism. In his recent videos and public speeches he also declared contemporary Ukrainian authorities “incapable” to govern and illegitimate, agitated for the...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
