On August 24, 2021, Ukrainians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, a landmark date in Ukraine’s nation-building journey. On July 16, 1990, the new Ukrainian parliament adopted the Declaration of State...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
From time to time we hear opinions and statements proclaiming that good neighbourly relations between Ukraine and Russia are possible. To do this, we just need to forget the last three years and envelop our northern neighbor in an ecstatic...
On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) were attacked by a hoard of paramilitary “Cossacks” shouting “Get off our land” while...
Contents New government, old planReforms in personalitiesLibertarian economic blocRelated:New government, old plan Ukraine’s newly appointed prime minister Volodymyr Groysman invited civil society representatives and experts for...
In addition to all the other ways in which he has profited from the Minsk Accords over the last year to weaken Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has achieved a “much more serious” victory by causing Ukrainians to fail to make a clear...
The Euromaidan protests are usually seen as the largest Ukrainian mass movement which changed society and the country. However, it was not the largest one in Ukrainian history. In the 90s Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts were shaken by the...
Russian ultranationalists are trying to buy Western journalists: who is behind all of this? On 23 December 2013 a photographic exhibition called Material evidence. Syria (“ВеЩдоки....
Today Russian conservatives welcomed members of Europe’s far-right ultranationalist parties to participate in a forum entitled “International Russian Conservative Forum” in St. Petersburg, the city famously under Nazi...
President Petro Poroshenko gave a much-discussed press conference in Kyiv today, unveiling his vision for Ukraine’s development through 2020 as part of his new program, Strategy 2020 (even though his presidential tenure...
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...
