Push and Shove

The Cabinet is bound to be shuffled. The bargaining is already underway. The new one is unlikely to be a government of technocrats

Most Wanted: A Crib Sheet for the President

The Ukrainian Week has put together a little list of those whom the current Administration should add to its sights so that it does not stop with Ghennadiy Korban

The More Things Stay the Same

Analysis of elections in Eastern Ukraine: old and new parties

Oligarch Turf Wars. 2.0

Triumph of oligarch-backed parties regionally and debut of new independent movements

Michel Tereshchenko: “We have to clean all of Hlukhiv of corruption”

The new mayor of Hlukhiv, a descendant of the renowned Tereshchenko family, talks about his team, how he plans to cooperate with other mayors in Sumy Oblast, how the city’s economy can be realistically revived, and how to shore up the border with the Russian Federation, which is only 15 kilometers away

Do It Yourself

Can activists defend community interests even if outwardly undemocratic forces control local government?

The Return of the Many-Headed Hydra

The Party of the Regions supposedly no longer exists in current Ukrainian politics, but it’s sent several columns out to the local elections

A Quasi-Victory

Despite its patriotism, Dnipropetrovsk region remains a stronghold of the Party of Regions and oligarchs

Clan Wars

Why the Dnipropetrovsk clan lost to the Donetsk clan and the chances of a comeback

Learning Independence

The possibility of change, and the opportunity to make that change stick brings meaning to the idea of independence for many ordinary Ukrainians today

Cloning Saakashvili

Proposed decentralization raises concern over the quality of human resources available to run the regions

Volodymyr Demchyshyn: “Things aren’t critical in the energy sector. It’s just highly politicized”

Ukraine’s Minister for the Power and Coal Industries talks about the gas balance, the chances of modernizing this sector, and the role of oligarchs in the Fuel & Energy Complex in an exclusive interview for The Ukrainian Week

Who Are You, Mr. Hrytsak?

Whose interests will guide the new SBU chief

Artem Sytnyk: “Our task is to break the stereotypes of society accustomed to living in a corrupt environment”

In an exclusive interview with The Ukrainian Week, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NAB) spoke about fighting corruption in the judiciary, the creation of a “corruption registry”, and its regional management of anti-corruption efforts. Interviewed by Tetiana Omelchenko

Systemic Shape-Shifting

What searches and arrests at the Prosecutor General's Office signal

Corruption in Ukraine: What Needs to Be Understood, and What Needs to Be Done?

It is usually helpful to understand the nature of a problem before effective solutions to it can be developed and implemented

Decentralization: The Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem?

An off-the-peg decentralization solution to the complex problem of development without effective physical and institutional infrastructure can do Ukraine more harm than good

Co-author of a local elections bill Oleksandr Chernenko: “The next local elections can take place two years after decentralization kicks in”

Oleksandr Chernenko spoke about the main challenges to changing the local political powers-that-be, electoral risks, and the voting rights of internally displaced persons

Dangerous Liasons

How and when are Ukraine’s reactionary forces most likely to strike back

Akhmetov’s Losing Bet

The Donbas master's current clout in politics, economy and war

Political Redesign

Shifts in electoral preferences in the countdown to local elections

High Profile Killings. Cui Bono?

The Kremlin will use the murders of MP Oleh Kalashnikov and writer Oles Buzyna to put pressure on Kyiv internationally

The Phantom of Deoligarchization

Taming a few oligarchs will not change the oligarchic system, since Ukraine still has no organized alternative to it in the form of civil society or small and medium businesses

Showcase vs Show

Law enforcement reforms

Andrii Klymenko: “One of Ukraine’s most important tasks is to ensure that sanctions for Crimea and Donbas are not separated”

Why an international strategy to return Crimea is necessary and what implications the militarization of the peninsula will have for the Black Sea and Mediterranean region

The Chronicles of Alienation

The annexation of Crimea from December 2, 2013, through April 4, 2014