“Very few cultures are global, so it’s not worth being creative for export”

Artist and curator on social role of artists and cultural policy

«Economic populism is always tempting during periods of hardship, but it has not served Ukraine well in the past»

The IMF's assessment of Ukraine's reforms and outlook

“Beloved Ukraine” or Russian Deniability

Russia does not understand itself as relation of domination, and in fact not as a relation at all. To it, Ukraine was and is Russia

Yuri Afanasiev: A Beautiful Dissenting Mind

Russia has recently lost one of her towering personalities in the fields of political dissent, human rights defence, political memory, social criticism and humanities

“We are able to be the eyes and ears of the international community in the conflict area”

OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Spokesperson on its mandate and tasks in Ukraine

“Western partners often do not understand what Ukraine wants”

Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs on Ukraine’s cooperation with Western partners and international organizations, the consequences of the Minsk agreement and the upcoming local elections

“I don’t see any significant change in the American policy about Ukraine because of the Iran issue”

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine and currently Director at the Brookings’ Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative about possible changes in America’s policy over Ukraine and Russia after the Iran deal, and about expectations for the Minsk process

“I have no shame or conscience, therefore my conscience doesn’t bother me”

People who have lost their sensitivity temporarily or for a long time are no demons. They simply remove from their sensitivity zone certain people or entire groups

Truth Out of Fashion

It is much easier to take the approach of multiple narratives than to accept that one side is right and the other wrong

Yet Another Russia: On Andrei Piontkovsky

An analyst who tries to win back our threatened sense of self-confidence and sober-mindedness