Cashing In On the Jobless

Ukrainians are finding it increasingly hard to find a job without having to pay a bribe

Institutional Policy Wonks

Involvement of the society into implementation of state’s policies is of a reason only in case, when the public opinion and opinion of independent experts are heard by the state. In Ukraine neither of the above mentioned is taken into account.

Crown Prince Frederick: "We Must Represent the People and Every Soul of the Nation in the Best Possible Way"

Someone has to start moving "from the bottom up" to achieve a solution for problems

Thunder Mountain

Dmytro Hrynkiv was sentenced to seven years in correction camps for creating an anti-Soviet armed underground organization in Galicia

The Need for Self-Protection

Ukrainian society is ready to resist hostile influences but the government should provide a more effective information policy

Television for a Society

Why Ukrainian television needs a boost of focus

Sewage Channels

Ukrainian television programming is a chaotic stream of primitive information presented in a infantile and inferiority-complex-inducing form

Blind Shoot On Victory Day

The conflict between pro-Russian and Ukrainian radicals on May 9 was quite foreseeable but no less scandalous

Games Our Brains Play

Academician Oleg Khrishtal, chair of the Department of Cellular Membranology at the Bohomolets Institute of Physiology, speaks about science and the wonders of everyday life

The Black Hole

Chornobyl zone swallows hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ hryvnias

Vibrant Prypiat

Prypiat (4 February 1970 – 27 April 1986) is more than just a ghost town with deserted homes, dead watches, lost toys, shabby school gyms and jungle parks. More than rows of abandoned pianos, mosaics of shattered windows, concrete, rust and mold… It is also the people who have kept this corner of the earth alive and meaningful. Every year they celebrate its birthday and commemorate their eternally young town – the one that will stay alive as long as they live.

Social Media And Facebook Revolutions

The British media expert Michael Binyon speaks about the potential of social media and the need to preserve live communication with real people

Ten Donetsk Stereotypes

The Ukrainian Week went on a myth-busting trip to Donetsk. We debunked seven common myths, but found another three were true

Ukrainians vs Television

Quitting the "boob tube" is becoming more and more justified for Ukrainians. Their reasons are many

Standing up to be Ukrainian

Out-and-out Ukrainophobia is being promoted in Ukraine under the guise of fighting xenophobia

The Source of Success

The west won't tolerate fascism among its own, but is ready to tolerate it wuth Russia

The Land of the Nebbish

Russians have never been a free people. From time to time they simply changed masters

When Evil Turns To Dood

Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine, talks about raider attacks on churches belonging to the Kyiv Patriarchate and the delusion of a “Russian world”

Parents to the Barricades

Donetsk officials are eager to close down Ukrainian schools even if they are 95% filled with students. But parents are fighting back

Après Husar, la deluge?

The new head of Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church will have to be a team player

Battle Over The Black Raven: Leon Trotsky vs. Oleksandr Feldman

Oleksandr Feldman, a dyed-in-the-wool fighter against Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism and the sponsor of a bill he introduced while still a BYuT member and which reflects this crusade, has reached new political heights

Alma Pater

The draft law on education actively promoted by the government will make colleges and universities completely dependent on the Education Ministry

Will the Cities of Ukraine Become Ukrainian Cities?

Whether cities of Ukraine become more Ukrainian has a direct impact on what Ukraine itself will be like

And Quiet Functions Donetsk Uni

The efforts of the Ministry of Education to bring Donetsk National University (DNU) under its heel at any cost have greatly damaged the image of the biggest state university in southeastern Ukraine

The Faces of Ukraine

Their actions create the synergy of success, freedom and national progress