In anticipation of a temporary lull

A crisis of relations in the victorious team blows up into a real fratricidal war and ends with some of them fraternizing with the one-time enemy. Just over 10 years ago, the country lived through a similar story

Andriy Parubiy: “New elections are a key mechanism to destabilize the country"

First Vice-Speaker, ex-Secretary of the National Secrutiy and Defense Council, and one of the leaders on the Maidan on events from two years ago and their significance today, Russia’s scenarios to destabilize Ukraine, and what security looks like now

Necessary conditions

What it takes to make changes irreversible in Ukraine

Petro Poroshenko Bloc: fragmentation

The presidential party's approach to forming party lists and selecting candidates for single-member constituencies has divided it into a multitude of groups and even more basically independent MPs

Breaking out of hollow rhetoric

What makes Ukrainians vulnerable to populism

New Military Command Wanted

How Ukrainian military schools should change to train efficient professionals

Making Headway

Having studied the experience of legal system reforms in various countries, I can say that even though I am critical about every process in Ukraine, still I am an optimist

18 Months is Not a Sentence But a Start

Sabotage and lack of resources notwithstanding, the investigation into the murders on the Maidan has been going on for 18 months now. The finish line is still a long way off

Reversing the Deep-Freeze

The dangers of further impoverishment

Mission Possible

Foreign policy objectives and challenges for 2016

A Game of Snap with Joker

Ukraine’s main political players want pre-term elections, but this won’t happen

Combat Readiness. Level..?

How Ukraine’s Army would face a hypothetical new escalation of war in the East

The Third Coming?

Is Maidan 3.0 possible, and what would it look like?

Desperate Argument

Politicians on why strong-arm tactics remain a tool to influence parliamentarians and officials, and how effective these actions can be

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