Reforms: Resistance and fragmentation

While Odesa’s City Council gets to work, the Odesa Oblast Rada is drowning in scandals and remote counties live their own political life

Barracks in place of a resort

How Russia is turning occupied Crimea into a military base

Top party in town

How party-based election affected campaigns in small communities of Prykarpattia

Criticism, cats and debate

How the Lviv media showed themselves in the conditions of keen political struggle in the city

Marieluise Beck: "The problem is that this thinking – German's guilt towards Russia – is so deeply rooted in our political memory"

The Ukrainian Week has discussed preservation of historical memory, Germany's historical responsibility, and the political aspects of Nord Stream 2 construction with the former Bundestag Member and the co-founder of think-tank Center for Liberal Modernity (Zentrum Liberale Moderne).

Frontline politics

Local election shows that the era of political monopoly in Luhansk Oblast is drawing to an end

What lost generation?

How realistic are expectations that the younger generation will be able to change the quality of local politics

Antidepressants for Kryvyi Rih

How civic movements evolve in the city that is a symbol of soviet industrialization of Ukraine

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