How Europe Got to Know About Kopanky

With coal deposits everywhere in the small town of Snizhne, kopanka owners bribe for licenses and fake signatures - all to start mining coal right in someone's garden or under the local cemetery

The Toothless Hag

The notion that a foreigner would want to learn Ukrainian is beyond the comprehension of the majority of Kyiv residents. Why waste your time? Why stop to such a level? After all, don’t you see that she’s a toothless hag!?!

I have heard so many promises from Yanukovych over the past years that have turned out to be doublespeak

Hanne Severinsen, PACE co-Rapporteur in 1995-2008, tells The Ukrainian Week about her opinion of the EU-Ukraine summit outcome

I would be very surprised if Ukraine managed to accomplish all the tasks 100%

Amanda Paul, Policy Analyst and Programme Executive at the European Policy Centre, talks to The Ukrainian Week about the results of the February 25 Ukraine-EU summit in Brussels

Help Put Human Traffickers Out of Work

Ukraine has traditionally been a country of origin and transit, but lately it is increasingly a destination country for trafficked men, women and children.

Does Russian Democracy End Where the Gas Pipeline Begins?

And excellent orator and Ukrainophile, Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov claims that Ukraine's gas transit system is not that important as an element of the state's independence and energy security. He seems to forget, though, that it secures not only the transit but also the delivery of natural gas across Ukraine and has underground storage facilities that can be used to store imported gas, as well as that extracted domestically

Why is Ukraine Unable to Meet the Requirements of Füle’s List?

An analysis of the government’s anti-corruption policy serves as a useful example

Pope`s Resignation: What Comes Next?

The sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the first time a Pontiff has voluntarily left office for almost 600 years, has thrown the Catholic world into turmoil and comes at a difficult time for the Church as it struggles to assert its authority in a secular world and contain the unfolding scandal of child sex abuse by priests who were sheltered by the Church from prosecution.

Why I Don’t Trust Opposition Leaders

Opposition leaders are lost because they don't have moral vaues that would give them orientation. It's time that they ask themselves, "Do the people need us?"

General Prosecutors Office Run Amuck?

The mounting selective justice and persecution of opposition leaders - all of this reminds one of the Stalin era when murder was followed by accusations in order to eliminate everyone the regime viewed as enemy