The Pope in Havana: A new walk to Canossa?

The pope sacrificed his principles and the trust of a part of his faithful for the sake of a “deal” that looks like nothing more than the division of spheres of influence between competing bureaucrats under cover of “communicating” and “dialog” between two parts of a sundered religious community

Back to USSR

After using leftist populist slogans to heat up the situation in the Donbas in the spring of 2014, Russia’s proxies have brought rapacious, feudal bolshevism to the region instead

How to Reclaim a Sense of Meaning Amid Meaninglessness

We must restore esteem to concepts, language, pledges, moral integrity, works of art, and forms of life. We live in a world of rampant inflation. Why don’t we try deflation?

Back at the Beginning

"The militants and Russia have not fulfilled any requirements of the Minsk Agreements"

Presidential envoy for the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbas and member of the humanitarian subgroup in the Minsk Negotiating Team talks to The Ukrainian Week about prisoner exchange, the amnesty for militants and Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia

"The main thing is to ensure the Ukrainian issue is heard regularly at the UN Security Council"

Ex-Envoy to UN on Ukraine's priorities as non-permanent member of the Security Council

Light at the Bottom

By the end of 2015, Ukraine basically had all the core anti-corruption bodies

"We expect solidarity and commitment to Ukrainian affairs from the EU"

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister on EU and Ukraine, elections in the Donbas, the Normandy format negotiations, and Ukraine’s diplomatic relations with Russia

The Pillars of European Scepticism

In countries such as Spain, France or Germany, public perceptions on Ukraine, the Maidan and the war, are a mixture of big-picture frame alongside much confusion

The Urgency of Intellectual Debate

Few people in France had such a piercing and global view on the 20th century as Claude Lévi-Strauss. His legacy is immeasurable, his ideas monumental. In love with art, particularly painting and music, the anthropologist died in 2009 as the age of 100. Such an ironic twist of fate for a man who liked to say that he does not feel any connection to the century left at the mercy of tourism, universal consumption, developmental acceleration and excess...