Why Europe Attracts Russians?

I’ll begin with a well-known Czech joke. “As long as the Czech Republic agrees to the American radar near Prague, Russian missiles will target the Czech capital,” Vladimir Putin tells the Czech President on the phone. “Then, our aviation will bombard Karlovy Vary,” he replies.

Is There Life After 28/11?

My former colleague, a journalist, once wrote that all critics of Viktor Yanukovych before the Vilnius Summit are the Fifth Column. If the signing fails at the last moment, they will be the ones to blame because they interfered with his plans.

“The law continues to be viewed as an instrument of partisan government power”

Without the Rule of Law, Ukraine will be ruled by the law of the jungle, plagued by corruption, political arbitrariness and economic unpredictability

Recipes for Consolidation

Ex-Minister of Culture of Latvia, talks about the successes and challenges in integrating the Russian-speaking community in Latvian society

Appropriating Moral Authority

It was more than once that I felt astonished by and ashamed of some of my colleagues’ choices for the Sakharov Prize, the supreme award of the European Parliament for human rights defenders and activists

The government is not doing everything necessary for the Agreement to be signed

At the Yalta European Strategy (YES) summit, The Ukrainian Week talks to Petro Poroshenko about European integration, Ukrainian-Russian relations and Kyiv mayor election. Interviewed by Sébastien Gobert

The Russia That is Losing Us

“We are surrounded by enemies” is the national idea of today’s Russia, and even Putin will hardly be able to change it. Even if he wanted to

The Tragedy of Syria: Three Lessons We Have to Draw

The stance of all important players is like a naughty joke in the face of a humanitarian disaster

Contextualizing the Holodomor

Scholars agree that the debate over whether the Holodomor was genocide has been resolved – it was and we should treat it as such – this fact has now become an academic given

The Western left criticize globalization but accept its logical consequences

Laurent Bouvet talks to The Ukrainian Week about the crisis of modern left-wing parties in Europe before his lecture at the Ye Bookstore