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

The Second Birth of Europe

Eastern Europe has become the term referring to alienation and despair of half of Europe, while exposing self-deception, complacency, and hypocrisy of the West

The Thorny Path to Reform

Member of Parliament Yehor Firsov on how reforms can be both painful and comfortable

Perception of Reforms

Sociologist Iryna Bekeshkina on the public’s expectations of change, perceptions of reforms, and the government’s lack of preparedness for them

"The year after Maidan was a year of missed opportunities in reform of the prosecution"

A popular blogger and an active participant of lustration on changes that have taken place at the Ukrainian prosecution service over the past year

The Kremlin Force Field

How the Putinian lobbying succeeds in catching even smart and good faith people inside a framework of gross lies, where they can no longer acknowledge facts

No Plain Truths Allowed

To recognize the long series of usurpers, from Lenin to Andropov, Chernenko and Shcherbytskiy as ghouls and their symbols as the mark of Cain should have been done long ago, as it was in other post-communist countries

Will Europe Get Angry Soon Enough?

Ukrainians might ask why there is clearly a military solution to the defence of Germany, yet politicians such as Angela Merkel insist that a military response to the invasion of Ukraine would be pointless

John Herbst: “The Administration does not understand that Mr. Putin’s ambitions are not limited to Ukraine”

US Ambassador to Ukraine in 2003-2006 and currently Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council talks to The Ukrainian Week on factors that shape the United States’ foreign policy and why Vladimir Putin must be stopped in Ukraine

“People will be watching how the reform program is implemented”

Ex-Ambassador of the US to Ukraine talks about trust for the Ukrainian government and its will to implement reforms in the United States and Barak Obama’s Ukraine and Russia policy