– If we go back 30 years in history, could you, a prisoner of the communist regime, have imagined that an independent Ukraine would appear during your lifetime? – I was firmly convinced that Ukraine would one day become...
Ukrainian nationalism is often viewed as primarily a rural phenomenon, but a new poll conducted by three leading Ukrainian sociological agencies finds that “the overwhelming majority of residents of Ukrainian cities of more than a...
The extensive free course of Ukrainian teaches basic vocabulary as well as working Ukrainian for those who need it in their everyday work environment. The students are originally from Russia, others were born in Kyiv, but have been brought...
“When Vladimir Putin or Sergey Lavrov talk about Ukraine,” Pavel Kazarin says, one has the impression that they think there is a pro-Moscow faction in Kyiv waiting in the wings to take power. That might have been true in...
Ukrainians and Russians differ fundamentally in the source of sovereignty in their countries, with Ukrainians, like citizens of Western democracies, viewing the people as sovereign and with the Russians, like the subjects of autocracies of...
As long as Russian military aggression against Ukraine continues, patriotism is likely to trump concerns about domestic difficulties, according to Ella Libanova, a reflection of the fact that “the Maidan and Russian aggression has...
Not all, but “the overwhelming majority of Germans sincerely believed” what Hitler said, just as not all but the overwhelming majority of Russians sincerely believe what Vladimir Putin says, according to Semyon Gluzman. But...
Russia’s problem is not Vladimir Putin but rather that “the special services have begun to rule that country and to transform it “into one large special service and its activities into one large special...
Bobsledder Dmytro Tkachenko volunteered to feed and rebuild Chernihiv “I understood that there would be a war,” bobsledder Dmytro Tkachenko, 41, says. “It’s just that we didn’t want to believe until the...
