New Election Laws – Fewer Choices

The Party of Regions has launched preparations for the 2015 presidential election by proposing amendments to election legislation that are aimed at furthering the government’s impact on the results of the vote, while the drafted constitutional amendments will, if passed, strip Viktor Yanukovych’s successors of control over government bodies.

Who are you, Mr. Yanukovych?

The Ukrainian Week went on a search for the treasures of the president’s family

Who are you, Mr. Yanukovych?

The Ukrainian Week went on a search for the treasures of the president’s family

The Orange Revolution: Lessons for the Middle East

What lessons does the Ukrainian Revolution of 2004 provide?

Yushchenko no fighter in political tug-of-war

While prime minister, Viktor Yushchenko helped Konstyantin Zhevago get the Zaporizhia Aluminum Plant, but Mykhailo Chechetov gave it instead to the Russians, yielding to the heavy lobbying by President Leonid Kuchma’s son-in-law

Foreign Ministry As Political Mouthpiece

Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has told foreign journalists how they should report on Ukraine and who Yulia Tymoshenko really is

Tally-ho! Go get these intellectuals!

Intellectuals are again being turned into a class of “enemies”

Every Ukrainian to Start Speaking All Languages?

The OSCE is convinced that the purpose of the draft law on languages has nothing to do with linguistic liberalism and the protection of minority rights. It is aimed at establishing Russian as the de-facto state language

The Fist One Gone

The Czechs don’t know if Bohdan Danylyshyn is innocent but have granted him asylum

Is there still hope?

On the one hand, the Danylyshyn case creates a precedent, while on the other, it fits in with the context of re-evaluation

Desperately Seeking Van Der Lubbe

The government is trying to kill the fire of protest among voters

When State And Church Unite

By openly preferring the Russian Orthodox Church, the Administration is violating the balance among confessions in Ukraine and fostering a state religion

The Desiatynna Snatch

Who exactly made the decision to spoil this unique historic site, where once stood the first Christian stone church in Ukraine?

USSR Is Back

In 2011, Ukraine will in many ways look like the USSR at the time of stagnation

Rough Landing For Ex-minister Lutsenko

Reasons behind Yurii Lutsenko’s arrest

An Open Address of Ukrainian Intellectuals In Defense of Yulia Tymoshenko

The absurdity of and political motives behind the charges brought against Ms. Tymoshenko are obvious

Everyone To Prison?

The government put much more pressure on its predecessors before the New Year

Fear Therapy

A wise Japanese maxim says: “The expectation of a threat is worse than the threat itself.”