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

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