Threshold Elections

Major challenges in the upcoming election of regional governments

"The abolition of special pensions system has encountered vehement opposition"

The Minister for Social Policy spoke to The Ukrainian Week about his vision of the pension reform, de-shadowing of taxes and salaries, subsidies and assistance to IDPs and ATO veterans

Yet Another Attempt at Pension Reform

The existing pension system is one of the major pillars of the ineffective and corrupt political and socio-economic model of the “old Ukraine”

"In Ukraine as elsewhere SMEs are the backbone of the future economy"

The Ukrainian Week spoke to the President of the European Investment Bank about priorities in cooperation with Ukraine, quality control of projects that receive access to the funding and SMEs as a potential driver of Ukraine’s economy

The Genius of Ukrainian Cinema

When somebody mentions Ukrainian cinema, I immediately find myself thinking about two major film directors - Sergei Parajanov and Kira Muratove

What Orwell Would Make of the Ukraine Crisis

It is in Europe’s interests to prevent Ukraine from becoming a failed state and to contribute to its democratic normalisation

Time to Wake Up

Europe won’t bear the cost or the risk for the defences it needs. That won’t change until Europeans are a lot more scared or angry than they are now—which may be too late

How Poland Made It. Notes of a Businessman

If you want to save the country from the economic collapse, make protection of SMEs a national idea

Victory-Over-Freedom Day

The anniversary, instead of being a demonstration of peaceful aspirations, has been transformed into its opposite

The “Normal Life” Argument

We have to go further in the study of routinized totalitarianism to understand what is at stake in “decommunization” in Central and Eastern Europe