YES, We CANnot

This time, Europe said a deliberate "No!" during the Yalta Forum, instead of its common "Yes".

Law For Enemies: Court Out to Confer

The surprising pause in the Yulia Tymoshenko trial is more evidence of the trap in which the government has found itself.

A Month Before the Test

Dirk Brengelmann, Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy at NATO, talks about the Alliance’s strategic interest in Ukraine and the priority of Ukraine’s European integration

Maneuvering Before Landing

Something that happened on September 5 signals that the government’s bid to deliver a guilty verdict in the Yulia Tymoshenko case is heading into the homestretch.

Witnesses In the Tymoshenko Trial: Ayes, Nays and Abstentions

While the defense and the prosecution argued over who the witnesses really supported, the former revealed Ukrainian politics in all its “glory”

We Write Kyiv, While Thinking Moscow

Alain Rémy is the most likely candidate to replace Jacques Faure as France’s ambassador to Ukraine

The Pyramid of Ruin

The oligarch-and-lumpen economy cripples Ukraine’s prospects

Pushing and Shoving

The National Radio and Television Council kicks out a crowd of operating regional broadcasters while favoring unknown ghost channels

The Legend Of The Agrément

Jacques Faure, Ambassador of France to Ukraine: “European public opinion will hardly understand signing an Association Agreement with Ukraine as if nothing had happened and nothing was going on”

Wrong Move

Having started rough play against all warnings, Ukraine’s regime finds itself in a deadlock

The Lessons of Independence

20 years is a significant stretch of time on the verge of the 20th and 21st centuries, packed with events

The Eve of Independence

Independence by instinct

A Crisis of Incapability

Ukraine failed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the collapse of the USSR. This can be blamed on the unreadiness of the counter-elite and shortsightedness of the political establishment

1991-1994

Lost opportunities

Late Start

In its first years of independence, Ukrainian politics took the steps necessary for the creation of Ukraine as an independent country but never resolved the fundamental problems of its development

1994-1998

Bagging the country

The Dawn of the Oligarchs

The late 1990s brought a system of governance to Ukraine that sent the country tumbling into poverty

The Triumph of Ruins

The assassination of Vadym Hetman removed all barriers to the chaotic disbursement of the banking and financial sector in Ukraine and opened the way for the tycoon-controlled economy

1998-2004

The failed test

The Wind from the East

The inability of the oligarch regime to withstand systemic pressure from abroad virtually led to the loss of sovereignty. It was only the response of society that saved the country

The Energy (In)Security of Ukraine

Throughout all 20 years of the new history of Ukraine, schemes have been used for energy resource supplies, to the detriment of the country, but which made specific people much richer

2005-2011

The wasted trust

Revolution and Revival

The opposition failed to fulfill the task of society and eliminate the oligarch and lumpen system in the early 2000s. There is still hope for the emergence of a new counter-elite

Tricky Balance

Only a force that relies on the middle class and a right-centrist ideology can pull Ukraine out of the oligarchs' vicious circle

20 Years of Balancing: What’s Next?

The new elite must show the way to eliminating the oligarch-controlled model and discovering Ukraine’s potential

Worry Rises in the West

Quite unexpectedly, the world community censures Kyiv for Tymoshenko’s arrest