About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member of the Oil and Gas Academy of Ukraine, an honored Professor Emeritus of the Ivano-Frankivsk Mechanical University of Oil and Gas....
In a little over a month, Russia will host one of the most popular sporting events in the world – the FIFA World Cup. With nearly 1.7 million tickets sold and teams from 32 countries participating in the most important international...
This is a first, some would say perhaps modest, but we will argue, an important step forward. We appreciate this initiative is being taken now, in a juncture of current political and economic challenges to Ukraine and a tremendous progress...
For the last few years, Ukraine has been all over the news due to its two prominent features: a passionate, idealistic desire to defeat corruption, and the corruption’s resistance. The whole world witnessed how during the...
Because there are no cardinal changes which are able to preclude these revolutions. Society or people revolted against political factors which threatened their independence, but Ukraine traditionally was divided between two different...
Discussions between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have led to clear success. The position of Berlin towards the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has become more advantageous for Ukraine. In particular,...
When I was working on the story of the attempted poisoning of former Colonel GRU Sergey Skripal in the English city of Salisbury, I managed to find a witness who confirmed that Russian special services have long been interested...
The Ukrainian Night, a book about a particular place – the main city square of Ukrainian capital and the moment in history, transcends the time and place and tells a somewhat universal story about the human struggle for freedom...
On 1 March 2018, Director of the Wilson Center Jane Harman decided to close the Kennan Institute’s office in Kyiv, which had promoted the US-Ukraine academic dialogue over the last 20 years. This decision was taken after an absolute...
More than two weeks ago, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and I visited the capital cities of two neighboring states – Vilnius and Warsaw – for meetings with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of Lithuania and the head of the Polish...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
