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

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