Khmelnytskyi Oblast: Great prospects and wasted influence

Despite strong representation in Parliament, Sluha Narodu in Khmelnytskyi essentially lost the ability to seriously influence political life in the region after the local election

Divide and don’t rule

What the newly elected county councils will do and what conflicts this can trigger

Oligarchic party pillars

Is it possible to solve the problem of oligarchic influence on politics in the regions?

Electionland

On local elections and what they mean for Ukraine

The most important mayors

Who got power in cities with a population over 100,000

Dinosaurs vs «Dinosaurs»

The 2020 Ukrainian local elections brought Kherson region not only new forms of campaigning, but also new faces in politics

Vitaly Bezghin: «There are neither prospects nor necessity to adopt amendments to the Constitution as for a special status of Donbas»

The Chairman of the Subcommittee of the Council on Administrative and Territorial Organization on the reform of decentralization, political allies and the possibility to change the Constitution in 2021

Ben Hodges: "If Kremlin will move, there would be massive cyberattacks against Ukraine to disrupt communications, command, and control infrastructure"

The Ukrainian Week met with General (ret.) Ben Hodges, former commander of United States Army Europe, now a Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) to discuss possible Russian attack on Ukraine, Western answer on such actions, and the problems of the Black Sea region

There’s a big “diff”...

Putin has forced Ukrainians to make a choice. Will they finally take a stand?

The language bogeyman

Someone is trying to turn language into an issue yet again. What are they doing and why?

Catching up with reality

How might the president interpret bad news better?

New Moscowphiles at the door

How disappointment in Volodymyr Zelenskiy will help pro-Russian forces and how they are evolving

Somewhere in the middle

What is it that voters in free Donbas like about Zelenskiy?

The potential winter unfreezing of the Donbas

The strategic winners and losers at Normandy

Feeling good

The government has managed to keep its approval rating high. For the first time in years, many Ukrainians believe that their life has not deteriorated

Imitating deoccupation

The Zelenskiy team is slowly adapting to the frozen conflict in occupied Donbas

Ze Nation

Volodymyr Zelenskiy is a surprising reflection of Ukrainian society

New challenges and opportunities

In 2020, for the first time in history, Kyiv will host the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Portrait in dirty grey

New Year in occupied Donbas

An (un)expected storm

Is escalation possible in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in 2020?

Unitarity under assault

In what way do Zelenskiy’s initiatives regarding decentralization, referenda and dual citizenship threaten the integrity of the Ukrainian state?

Brake time?

The new administration failed, after all, to make good on a single serious reform. The seemingly minor postponement could suggest a systemic crisis of decision-making

Courtesy visits

Why high-ranking foreign officials’ visits to Kyiv don’t contribute to the strengthening of Ukrainian diplomacy

The Servant of the People: Sexy CPSU

2020 local elections will be more of a challenge for the Servant of the People party than the parliamentary campaign