Nationalism and Post-Empire Syndrome

The real threat to Europe and the world is the delayed collapse of old empires and the resulting formation of new hegemonic derivatives.

The PACE of Reform

The PACE remains the important place for the issues related to Ukraine

How Yet Another Pseudoreform Was Forged

The so-called election reform - nothing but a new version of the Law “On the Election of People’s Deputies” - has a curious background and an undisguised political motive

On Paranoiacs and Pragmatists

A bona fide Ukrainian association has been closed in Russia, while numerous Russian organizations in Ukraine are blossoming despite their highly questionable practices

Red-faced Police

Ukraine’s police lack professionalism and are being used to achieve political goals rather than perform their main duties

Depressionism

A social order with limited access to political and economic activity is taking shape in Ukraine

Is There a Need to Apologize?

The communists and Nazis – not Jews, Ukrainians, Germans or Russians – were the criminals in the 1930s and the 1940s. Each of these nations lost millions, so any expiation is out of the question.

To Kyiv With Love

What surprises a Belarusian journalist in Ukraine

Primates and People

From now on, Yulia Tymoshenko is a political prisoner regardless of how soon subsequent scenarios of pardon or acquittal by a court of higher instance will be implemented to please Europe, if at all.

The Green Mile

Passport-based currency exchange is a threat only to some businessmen and politicians and not to regular citizens