Vote busters

What those in power and opposition are likely to do to improve their rates and mobilize the electorate

The spin-doctor headache

Undecided voters are a tasty morsel for parties that are not in the Verkhovna Rada, yet none of these parties has much of a chance of winning them over in significant numbers

The General vs the Admiral

Could Ukraine’s armed forces have prevailed in Crimea?

National security overhauled

What’s new for Ukraine’s defense and security institutions in the President’s national security draft law?

A process of no progress

An update from the occupied parts of the Donbas: monuments to Russian volunteers, shutdown of mobile connection, new arrests of ministers

The Central Electoral Commission conundrum

The shambolic renovation of the Central Electoral Commission, which has been in progress for several years now, looks about to be finally concluded. On Feb. 5, the President submitted a list of candidates to the Verkhovna Rada and this suggests that the process is finally being unblocked

A historic law of geopolitical scale

Important aspects of the new Deoccupation Law

A shot away

Who is fighting against Ukrainian military in Donbas

Season two coming up?

Mistakes, unlearned lessons and consequences in the political confrontation between Ukraine’s leadership and Mikheil Saakashvili

No right to show weakness

How Ukraine’s security, defence and the capability to counter hybrid aggression changed in 2017

Better parliament than the street

What challenges and tasks is Ukraine’s legislature facing?

A one-trick pony?

What, ultimately, is the essence and the purpose of Oleh Liashko, the leader of the modern radicals?

New players, same broken game

What explains the tug-o-war between various enforcement agencies in Ukraine

Mikheil Saakashvili: Detention and unexpected release

What is known as of December 5

If elections were held tomorrow

Ukraine’s Parliament has started to change the electoral system. Will they be able to finish the job and what will change if the reform goes through?

Populism’s last gasp

What political ambitions do Yulia Tymoshenko and her party hope to achieve before the 2019 elections?

Are Ukrainians ready to protest?

According to recent sociological studies, there have been no significant changes in the mood of Ukrainians over the last three years. The scarcity of demonstrations cannot be attributed to loyalty to the current government, but rather to the fact that the opposition is equally far away from understanding what the citizens need and how these needs can be met

A difficult return

The new law on the reintegration of the occupied parts of the Donbas qualifies them as such and names Russia as the occupier. Yet, it does not launch the process of deoccupation or change the mechanism envisaged in the Minsk Agreement

The wannabe Maidan

This week started off with a bang in Kyiv...and it had nothing to do with working on healthcare reform, which the Verkhovna Rada eventually passed on October 19. The #1 topic became a protest action to push political reforms forward that was called by anti-corruption politicians and former Odesa Governor Mikhail Saakashvili

Osnova: Taruta’s political foundation

Founded this fall, Donetsk oligarch Serhiy Taruta’s Osnova or Foundation party has already started campaigning although the next Verkhovna Rada election is two years away

Border incident

The odyssey of Mikheil Saakashvili had a happy ending for him but caused his opponents headaches and image problems

In a number of words

The annual speech of the President outlines accomplishments and failures. Over the course of modern Ukrainian history, the addresses have painted the image of the country’s every leader and his era in politics

Third time’s a charm

President Poroshenko's state of the nation address to the Rada

Supreme Court selections: Delay in court

Candidates for positions in the renewed Supreme Court have one last barrier to overcome

Maidan cases: Crime and (illusory) punishment

What counterarguments Berkut lawyers use in Maidan trials

Pre-Constitutional changes

Although Ukraine formally only passed its Constitution five years into independence, significant changes to the Basic Law took place even before the Soviet Union went into collapse