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

The Holy Grail

Who wants a change of Ukraine’s Constitution, and why

Farmers vs agriholdings

What kind of land market Ukraine needs

A new kind of sport

Just about everyone in Ukraine is battling corruption today: all the law enforcement agencies together with the activists, officials and MPs. Sometimes, though, such a large number of anti-corruption folks can get in the way

The very costly secret

The pitfalls of Yanukovych's $1.5bn case

Narodniy Front redux

Despite its currently low ratings, Arseniy Yatseniuk’s Narodniy Front has managed to remain in the major league of Ukrainian politics

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