Escape to Romania

A simplified system for crossing the border? Going to the EU visa-free? Every year, the government keeps promising to speed up these processes but for some reason, getting the sacramental Schengen visa is becoming ever more difficult. However, almost 50,000 Ukrainians resolved their European problem a long time ago, and most important of all - forever! They all have two passports – Ukrainian and Romanian.

Entourage

Conformist politicians, officials, academics, artists, and experts become enmeshed into the oligarch tycoon system and assist in its operation and development. The Ukrainian Week presents a list of the most pervasive groups of opportunists and their leaders.

Better When Corrupt

Despite its loud declarations and new anti-corruption legislation, the government is in fact putting off the actual fight against corruption indefinitely

Web Of Red Tape

Though the government keeps promising to cut red tape, Ukrainians continue to be stuck in it

Ukraine and Poland: Time to Shed Myths

No future can be built without respect for history from both sides

Russians and Russia’s Policies

Do Russians in Ukraine indeed require protection, and who counts as a Russian?

Sounding the Alarm

International organisations seem disappointed with the scale of democracy and freedoms in Ukraine since the 2010 election

Attempts to Convert the Neighbours

Only resisting nations were able to avoid the negative consequences of russification

From Russification to Poverty

Imposing the Russian language is only one aspect of the Russian lifestyle exported to Ukraine

Phantoms of Ukrainian Democracy

Political betrayals, ideological chameleons and crossovers: an opinion on the opposition

Strasbourg Swing

Speaking at a session of the Council of Europe, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych promised to do many things: launch public television, pass the new election law only with the approval of the Venice Commission, reform the judicial and investigation systems and even achieve real rule of law.

Dominic Fean: “The West Is Not Sure Cases Against The Opposition Are Free of Politics”

The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) recently published a report titled “Economic pressure and Ukraine’s security policy.” IFRI is one of the most influential private think tanks in France. Its list of invited speakers includes Ukrainian presidents Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko

Cashing In On The Show

By building Potemkin villages the state is flirting with the electorate and international financial institutions

With Democracy on Their Lips

Western leaders' selective approach to “defending civic rights” plays into the hands of Yanukovych

Bourgeois Nationalism

The European middle class opted for national identity over belonging to a specific social class, turning itself into the foundation of European state building, while the architects of independent Ukraine ignored it

The Price of Progress

The US was only able to remove the influence of oligarchs by expanding the governments powers and supporting the middle class during the Great Depression

Vox Populi

Ukraine’s middle class is waiting for a political force to support

Anatomy of Propaganda

Ukraine is still subjected to information campaigns against it. Effective resistance is possible but has yet not been put in place

Conservative Ideology Needed

A center-right ideology best meets the challenges posed by reforms and fighting a crisis

Did You See Who They Kicked Out?

The fuss over Ukraine's expulsion of Czech diplomats appears to be part of a foreign-controlled special operation against Ukraine

Winning the Race at the Start

The draft law on elections published for the purpose of discussion reveals the ruling party’s strategy for the 2012 parliamentary election

Molotov-Brezhnev Cocktail

How Soviet myths about the “Great Patriotic War” and the “Great Victory” were created and what they concealed

Engine Failure

If it does not make cardinal changes, Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party risks inviting the fate of Our Ukraine

Lords of the Air Waves

Major redistribution of radio waves is underway

Not Russia

The twisted vision of Ukrane can turn out fatal to European security

A Trap For the Government

A poll conducted in April by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed no changes in the trend that has been observed since last summer: Ukrainians are growing less and less supportive of the authorities