A Quarter to an End

When nostalgic fans lament for “good old” soviet music, which often really did sound better than what is played today, they tend to forget one thing: each good soviet song was accompanied by at least a thousand dull ones

Safety Check

The results of stress tests run at Ukraine’s nuclear power stations are comforting but fail to explain why the facilities' equipment malfunctions so often

The Mystique of Kurbas

Kurbas wrote with an open heart and faith in his rightness about the possibility of creating a new world on stage.

Ukraine Is On the Way to Isolation

A government must always be under control to be democratic

Primitive and Dull! Hit Song?

Ukrainian music with socially sensitive lyrics is never played on radio and TV. Program managers simply do not want to take risks and opt for “background style” music with primitive lyrics instead.

The Ukrainian Perspective on Politics

We badly need a Hohol of our time who would point out what has been lost by Eastern European politics

Literary Canon: the Art of Remembering

The parameters of the classical Ukrainian literature canon have greatly changed over the past years

Journalism Does not Have to Smell Like The Name of the Rose

The press is hard to heal in a sick society. At the very least, it should not be the starting point

“Conversations were held with me regarding my future testimony in court”

The reception of evidence and the hearing of arguments in the Lutsenko case have ended. The prosecution was able to call 138 witnesses, while the defence none. Nonetheless, much to the surprise of the investigators, 86 witnesses who were expected to confirm that the ex-Interior Minister was guilty at least partially changed their testimonies in court. Recorded by Kateryna Hladka

"It’s better to go endure the Afghan War than interrogations in the Prosecutor General’s Office"

Valeriy Melnyk, former chief of the apparatus, aide and advisor to Yuriy Lutsenko, is considered a key witness in the case against the former Interior Minister. The Prosecutor General’s Office pinned special hopes on this witness during pre-trial investigation. Recorded by Kateryna Hladka