EU, UN: focus on human rights abuses against women in Ukraine
In a resolution passed on Thursday, 5 May, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament condemned the use of rape…
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Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…
Kyiv needs to help Ukrainian tourists abroad be independent of Russians
Kyiv wants its diplomats to promote the independent identity of Ukraine abroad, Delovaya stolitsa reports; but it has…
Rules for peacetime don’t work when you’re at war for national survival
The UK has had for many years a stable democratic process, with strong institutions. But what happens after…
Ten years after the Russian-Georgian war: the Kremlin’s unlearned lessons
This war which lasted a week took hundreds of lives of Georgians, Ossetians, and Russians, soldiers and civilians.…
Trump has done more than collude with Putin: he’s helped Kremlin leader destroy post-1945 world
Donald Trump did more than collude with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He worked with the Kremlin leader to…
What post-election Turkey expects from Ukraine and EU
The President is accorded greater executive powers and, as a consequence, assumes additional responsibilities. Unlike in the former system,…
Trump’s best friends
President Trump has ushered in an era of uncertainty in the Western world. The United States is no…
West must boycott FIFA World Cup or face an even more dangerous Putin afterwards
If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to…
Europe 2030: A Ukrainian vision of the future of Europe
Events of the recent years remind us that the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 was primarily about…
The secret Soviet council which established the Kremlin’s gas monopoly on Europe
About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member…
Two and a half million reasons for state officials to boycott the FIFA World Cup in Russia
In a little over a month, Russia will host one of the most popular sporting events in the…
Reforms in exchange for investments – EU сommission is starting to implement Marshall plan for a Ukraine
This is a first, some would say perhaps modest, but we will argue, an important step forward. We…
The duality of Ukrainian reality: resistance of corruption to Western ideals
For the last few years, Ukraine has been all over the news due to its two prominent features: a…
Postcolonial syndrome, or Why do revolutions occur one after another in Ukraine?
Because there are no cardinal changes which are able to preclude these revolutions. Society or people revolted against…
How Ukraine can protect itself from Nord Stream 2
Discussions between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have led to clear success. The position…
A Killing Epidemic: The Culling of Russia’s Opposition Journalists
When I was working on the story of the attempted poisoning of former Colonel GRU Sergey Skripal in the English…
A view of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution from the square
The Ukrainian Night, a book about a particular place – the main city square of Ukrainian capital and…
“Our disagreement with leadership’s pro-Kremlin tendencies ignored”: Ukrainian scholars on closure of Kennan Institute Kyiv office
On 1 March 2018, Director of the Wilson Center Jane Harman decided to close the Kennan Institute’s office…
Seven ideas for Ukraine and Europe: to be discussed at the Kyiv Security Forum
More than two weeks ago, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and I visited the capital cities of two neighboring states –…
