Ukrainian analyst Volodymyr Dacenko shared on Twitter his analysis of the current balance of military power between Ukraine and Russia, presenting the comparison of the two armies as of late 2022 as infographics. For the analysis,...
Russia has not implemented a single call of any PACE resolution calling on it to stop its aggression in Ukraine. Despite this, on October 9, PACE will vote for a resolution effectively allowing the Russian delegation to return to the...
Background of the takeover of Donbas The protests against the Euromaidan (2013-2014) in Luhansk and Donetsk were mostly staged by pro-Russian local elites, linked to the Yanukovych’s Party of Regions (PoR). However, Russia...
The Minsk peace process is so far seen as the only way to stop the war between combined Russian-separatist forces and the Ukrainian army in Donbas. There was a Minsk-1 first signed in September 2014, and then a Minsk-2 adopted in February...
ow On 8 June 2017, three days after Montenegro became the 29th NATO member, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a bill setting NATO membership as Ukraine’s foreign policy objective. 276 MPs out of the needed 226 voted in favor, 25 were...
On 17 May 2017, the legislative act finalizing the visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU was signed in the European Parliament. It is expected that starting 11 June 2017, Ukrainians will be able to travel without visas to EU...
Yesterday, it was Georgia’s first day of visa-free travel with the EU. This was a long-awaited event – the International airport in Tbilisi was draped with Georgian and EU flags in celebrations. Tbilisi international airport...
In 1992-2014 Russia occupied Transnistria region in Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, annexed Ukraine’s Crimea and launched the war in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts in Eastern Ukraine. We asked our readers, what country...
Since 2015, more than a half-score of the “Donbas warlords” and other “leaders” were killed or died under mysterious circumstances. Here is a baker’s dozen of the most prominent deaths: Date Position Name...
The prescription for taming Ukraine’s oligarchs that we propose may seem radical. But it is nothing new. Even in early-modern Europe, emerging states tamed grasping nobles and corrupt mercantilists by attacking their economic...
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...
