Stanislav Aseyev: “One of the people exchanged with me beat me and was involved in tortures”

Stanislav Aseyev, journalist and contributor to The Ukrainian Week, spent two years as hostage to the “DNR” militants. In his interview, he shares why he decided to stay in the occupied part of the Donbas, how he ended up in the “basement” and how he started writing a book in jail

A thriving ruin

Despite many official pronouncements, industry in the liberated Donbas is in its death throes

From perfidy to repression

What crimes Russia has committed during the occupation of Crimea and is still committing on the peninsula

Afterimage of the Maidan

The Euromaidan, aka the Revolution of Dignity, gave some Ukrainians a big boost while others were brought down. What happened to all the faces of 2013-2014?

The axe behind God’s door

The Maidan continues to be an effective factor in Ukraine’s politics. How to preserve its achievements?

The fight against the flight

President Zelenskiy’s plans to attract migrants back and establish ties with the diaspora are missing the point

Grace of the empire

What is Ukraine’s place in the rhetoric of Russian media and how to decipher their hidden messages?

The march of dis-integration

The self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas are changing their rhetoric about returning to Ukraine and are more actively imposing the attributes of a statelet...

The age of marauders

The economic crisis in occupied Donbas is getting worse. Marauding seems to be the rule of the day

Healthcare defense

What Ukrainian healthcare should do in 2020

Opinion under occupation

How are residents of ORDiLO being polled for their opinions and how reliable are the results?

Dead Souls: The people’s census

What those “dead souls” are hiding in occupied Donbas

President’s hometown

Today of Kryvyi Rih

The culture of poverty

What poorer Ukrainians think of subsidies, the rich, and themselves

The high cost of exchange

What can Ukraine offer for the release of the remaining prisoners

Movement to restrain

Who is behind the “No capitulation!” movement, why they are doing it, and how it could actually help Zelenskiy

His death: Weak “stronger sex”

The reasons why Ukrainian men die earlier than women

The new underestimated threat

Why demographic challenges in Ukraine are equally dangerous as its economic and political troubles?

The evolution of homo sovieticus

Why is it so much harder than anyone expected to break ties with the soviet past?

Science & Technology: Diagnosis and treatment

Ukraine’s scientific sphere needs to be overhauled and invested in

Mykhailo Zabrodskiy: “Generals do not think within the framework of the previous war”

The commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces on the feasibility of holding a military parade on Independence Day of Ukraine and the specifics of the war in Donbas

ORDiLO: The new party line

What’s behind the flashmob about “Accept Donbas’s choice”?

Empty pedestals

What does Ukraine have to offer against the Russian myth of “the glorious victory of Russian military power”?

Art of prioritization

Why it is dangerous to neglect the topic of war and what the mission of the media community should be