Political Prisoners: Big and Small

Ukraine does have political prisoners. This fact is acknowledged by everyone today except for supporters of the Party of Regions, the Communists and the most inveterate ideologues of the "everyone-in-politics-is-bad" position.

Five Hundred Years after Machiavelli’s Prince: An Intellectual in Politics

Niccolò Machiavelli seems to have been one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood thinkers and writers in Europe.

The Lutsenko Pardon: Enough to Appease the EU?

A Lifeline for One of Britain's Oldest Overseas Territories

Ovations for Estonia’s Tax Legislation

On December 8, 1993, when the new Income Tax Act was passed, was the first time that a piece of legislation had drawn an ovation. On that day, Parliament laid the capstone on the entire process of tax reform, which signified the start of a brand-new period for Estonian tax policy

The Law and Reality

Georgian ex-Deputy Minister of Justice talks about the implementation of the new Criminal Procedure Code in Ukraine and Georgia’s criminal justice reform experience

Civilization of the Young

The brain drain process is a painful challenge to Lithuania, as the country is losing the best of its young people, would-be scholars, artists, business people, probably – even public figures, policy makers and statesmen as well.

Help Yourselves, and Europe Will Help You. Maybe…

Does Kyiv truly want to join both the EU and the Customs Union? If it is bluffing, then who is the true partner and who is the fake?

The Estonian Secret Services: Established Despite KGB Interference

On 19 September 2008, Estonian Defence Ministry adviser Hermann Simm and his wife travelled to a small town near Tallinn to pick up a three-kilogram cake that Simm had ordered for his mother-in-law’s birthday from a local shopping centre. When they came out of the shop carrying their purchases, neither noticed the black Volkswagen minibus - or the ambulance positioned just around the corner, there in case Estonia’s most wanted traitor should put up resistance, have a heart attack or take a capsule of poison.

Beware the Referendum in the Hands of a Tyrant

This short insight into the history of direct democracy might serve all those Ukrainian democrats who want to prevent the plebiscitairian and bonapartistic scenarios