Over 11% of representatives of Ukrainian regional councils are serving in the military
11.2%, or 643 out of 5,729 local oblast, district, and city council representatives, are fighting on the frontline.…
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Ukrainian parliamentarians want to declare Russia’s 1864 expulsion of Circassians a genocide
Their leader, Oleksiy Honcharenko, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,…
What did Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution really achieve?
What was the place of Euromaidan in Ukrainian history? What has it achieved, and what was not reached?…
Zelenskyy ready to frame Poroshenko on criminal charges
Zelenskyy had threatened to send Poroshenko to prison during the presidential election campaign in 2019; and Zelenskyy’s team…
Belarusian KGB revelations shake official Ukrainian version in Sheremet murder
Since Pavel Sheremet was murdered in July 2016 in Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators had a difficult time figuring out…
Ukraine in review: the biggest stories of 2020
2020 was a hard year for nearly the entire world: the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple ensuing crises…
Charge of Euromaidan activist with non-existent murder slammed as revanche of pro-Russian forces
What happened on 18 February 2014 On the morning of 18 February 2014, the Euromaidan protesters organized a…
Seven years after Euromaidan: how much has Ukraine progressed?
The 16th annual conference by Kyiv Dialogue, an independent German-Ukrainian platform for intensified dialogue between the countries, was…
Why the influence of Arsen Avakov in Ukraine will grow
ACT II – INSIGHT: RETAINING POWER BY ALL MEANS Avakov as beneficiary of the policy shift? President Zelenskyy’s…
Ukraine-NATO: Politicians struggle, while military acts
Relations between Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have long been complicated, sometimes even uncertain. From…
The politics of reform: Saakashvili’s Odesa mission
Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has accepted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s offer to chair the Executive Committee of…
Lustration preventing comeback of Ukraine’s ancien regime challenged after five years
*Lustration – government policy that seeks to cleanse a new regime from corrupt remnants of the past. The…
Where are all of Ukraine’s new alternative political forces?
As Ukraine’s presidential campaign is warming up, the motto “Either Poroshenko or Putin” is heard quite often. Some…
Top 7 information leaks in the history of Ukrainian politics
Dirty money and hidden assets, crime and corruption schemes, secret meetings and hidden negotiations prevail in the…
Snap elections, the worst scenario for Ukraine — Parubiy
Andriy Parubiy, the first deputy speaker of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, discussed the Russian threat to global security and…
Ukraine after Maidan is different, but the politicians are the same
Today, at its first assembly, the Verkhovna Rada is to elect the leadership of the Parliament, document the…
Some honestly and bravely defend the country, others take advantage
Dozens of photos of politicians, officials, policemen in military uniform, bulletproof vests, with a rifle in hand in…
Lustration through fights and trash containers
‘National lustration,’ which began with throwing members of the parliament into trash containers, continued with the beating of…