The three-year itch

Three years after being elected, the president faces the same problems as his predecessors

Poroshenko vs the memes

How Ukrainian social media users react to the President

Building up armour

Current state and plans in Ukraine’s defense industry

Finding the balance

What it takes to upgrade Ukraine’s military

Courts, sanctions and the blockade

Ukraine needs to prepare a consolidated claim on Russia’s responsibility for its armed aggression to be used in international courts, as well as laws on the occupied territory and the restoration of territorial integrity

Time for a strong middle-class party

What is needed for Ukraine to have a political force that is not linked to oligarchs

Black holes

How trading with ORDiLO became a handy loophole from paying taxes

A legitimate capitulation?

What the January Cabinet of Ministers' decree on the occupied territory means for Ukraine and Russia

Shifting moods among Ukrainians

In three years since the Euromaidan, what has changed among ordinary Ukrainians? What trends suggest the direction Ukrainian society is moving in? Recent polls provide some answers to these questions

Kharkiv vs Donetsk

What’s the purpose behind the new party of Vadym Rabinovych and Yevhen Murayev?

Old goals, new methods

The Kremlin's hybrid aggression against Ukraine: essence, development

Putin in The Hague: The MH17 case

There are a number of mechanisms for charging those responsible for the shooting down of MH17. None is ideal but, put together, they could yield results

A well-rehearsed scenario

How elections in the Donbas usually play out

Storm clouds ahead for allies

Who is vying for leadership in the Poroshenko Bloc and Yatseniuk's People’s Front

New Donetskites

How generations shift in the electoral field of the former Party of Regions clans

In a narrow niche

What the self-proclaimed democratic opposition to the current government wants and can achieve

The war of all against all

The new regular session of the Verkhovna Rada started on September 6. It looks like actors on Ukraine’s political scene, probably with the exception of Petro Poroshenko's Bloc and Arseniy Yatseniuk’s People's Front, have great expectations and ambitious plans for this fall seasons. Major oligarchs are likely to step up their game. The situation in the presidential team is not at its best either

General test

High-profile arrests have been expected for a very long time. For over two years now, Ukrainians have been demanding punishment for those in power who were guilty of escalating events on the Maidan and then the war in Donbas. The question “Why aren’t the Regionals being punished?” is hotter than ever, and it’s only recently that the Prosecutor General’s Office has tried to answer it. Now Oleksandr Yefremov, ex-Head of Luhansk Oblast State Administration, then First Deputy Head of the Party of Regions and generally one of the more odious ex-Regionals, is sitting in jail awaiting trial

Nils Muižnieks: «My fear is that people will forget the suffering taking place in Ukraine»

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks on the human rights situation in Donbas and Crimea, and his further plan regarding these territories

Multiplication by division

The prospects of two young liberal parties

Brewing and ripening

The Ukrainian Week looks at the new parties emerging in the country

Putin on the squeeze: The Yanukovych debt

The anatomy of Yanukovych’s “loan” from Putin. Should Ukraine repay it?

Chaos and the law

Who is changing the Constitution of Ukraine today and how? How are these innovations linked to reforms in the country? The Ukrainian Week speaks to constitutional and administrative law expert Ihor Koliushko, chairman of the Center of Policy and Legal Reform

Constitutional confrontation

Many of the problems connected to Ukraine’s Basic Law are the result of trying to rebuild it on the foundations of a soviet constitutional heritage that does not reflect current realities

Bouillabaisse de president

What is Petro Poroshenko's team and who are the centres of influence in it

The fine art of compromise

Although his powers are president of Ukraine are quite limited, over the last two years Petro Poroshenko has learned to use them like a virtuoso, allowing him considerable influence over the legislature and Government