The Ukrainian language as a protest

In the summer of 2017, Kateryna Handziuk wrote an op-ed piece for The Ukrainian Week, which we are republishing here

Gandhi at checkpoint

on Mahatma Gandhi's legacy

Ukrainian Avant-garde forever

When Ukraine is asked today, what it can give to Europe, it doesn’t have to go far: it had once given Ukrainian avant-garde to the world. The task today is to win it back from being associated with the Russian culture by clearly identifying where it actually comes from.

How to explain Ukraine’s bashing?

Afterthoughts on Babchenko’s case

“We are seeing more of a blurring of the borders between soft and hard power”

Director General of the NATO International Military Staff on NATO’s readiness to face hybrid challenges from Russia, expectations for NATO’s upcoming summit in Brussels, and about how Ukraine can contribute to international security

“I have set a line for myself beyond which an honest discussion of complicated matters turns into propaganda”

Director of The Cyborgs, Her Heart and Haytarma, speaks about contemporary Ukrainian film, about propaganda in movies, about what unites Crimean Tatars today, and about Crimea House in Kyiv, which Seitablayev has been running since early 2017

My mistake: Why we still fail to understand properly the nature of Vladimir Putin’s regime

My deep sympathy for Ukraine and commitment for the Maidan revolution originated in the awareness of the persistence of the soviet system in Eastern Europe despite the collapse of USSR and of the communist empire. This persistence has been dramatically enhanced by the choice of continuity by Russia, the absence of any trial of communist crimes, the hold on power of the same ruling class through apparent changes, and of the same political mores: a blend of secret police and high scale corruption

“In case of the meaningful UN mandate, Austria would consider playing its role in the peacekeeping mission in the Donbas”

Former special representative of the Austrian OSCE chairperson-in-office for the Transnistrian settlement process about options for the peacekeeping mission in the Donbas, the motivation for friendship between Austrian and Russian politicians, and about ways in which the experience with the Transnistrian conflict can be useful for Ukraine

“Neither the president nor French ministers need to go to St. Petersburg in May”

French political analyst Nicolas Tenzer about the diplomatic crisis between the West and Russia, the state of Franco-Russian relations, and the prospects for reviving negotiations in the Normandy format

“Ukraine’s economy can’t grow as long as we don’t change the role of the enforcement agencies”

Finance Minister about reforming the State Fiscal Service and other challenges facing Ukraine’s domestic economy