Disaster in the making

The "DPR government" has announced its intention to flood the closed Young Communard mine in Yenakiyeve. 40 years ago, nuclear tests were carried out in it, and nobody knows today what the consequences would be if groundwater erodes the radioactive rock

Shades of the Fourth Republic

What threats face Ukraine if a fragmented Verkhovna Rada is elected that does not represent the interests of the majority of Ukrainians?

The other side of the fence

The good, the bad and the ugly about emigration from Ukraine—and some surprising numbers

Priests and politicians

Compared to many other countries in Europe, Ukraine’s religious life is very active, although there is no state religion. So how do politics and religion work together here?

When church and country clash

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is expanding its influence and propaganda in Donbas

The pursuit of happiness

Why migration from Ukraine rises and won’t stop any time soon

Studio sleight of hand

How Ukraine’s talk shows work

A wolf in sheep’s clothing

In a recent poll, Razumkov Center, a sociology group, has found that 73% of Ukrainians fully or partly agree with the statement that political parties which spend a long time in power always have tainted reputation. So they only believe new political forces and their leaders

Curiouser and curiouser

Trends in Donbas given the whirlwind of socio-economic changes and the background of permanent conflict on the front

Frustrated and optimistic

2017 was not exceptional nor a turning point in Ukrainian politics. However, it exposed the threats behind the bustle of its main players much more clearly

Kremlin Hostages: The key is not with Putin

For Ukrainians incarcerated in the occupied territories and in the Russian Federation itself, things could get much worse in 2018. Only serious international pressure is likely to make Moscow release these political prisoners

Education as part of national security

What will change for teachers and students in 2018

The language of instruction as a key to unity and security

Why Ukraine cannot yield to the pressure from its neighbors and how it can protect the state language

Moving right along

What exactly is being produced in Ukraine today, what does the army still need, and how much of this can be provided by the domestic defense industry?

The eastern policy trilemma

What kind of model is needed for the de-occupation of ORDiLO?

Kyiv commemorates the Heavenly Hundred

November 21, the 4th anniversary of the Maidan, begins in Kyiv with a prayer for the Heavenly Hundred, the protesters killed at Instytutska Street in February 2014, and the victims of earlier shootings, police violence throughout the revolution

New Education Law: A change of mindset

Mostly discussed for its regulation of the language of instruction in schools, the new law offers more overlooked important innovations intended to change the quality and the content of education in Ukraine

Russian law enforcers conduct new raids against Crimean Tatar Muslims, detain seven

Russian law enforcers raided the houses of Muslim Crimean Tatars in Bakhchysarai in the morning of October 11

The genetic code of activism

How the local women of Bakhmut change their region at home and perception of it elsewhere in Ukraine

Non-existent Islamism

How the Kremlin propaganda is affecting Ukrainian Muslims

Vadym Skibitskyi: “We have an answer to the Russian leadership's statement that their units “are not there” in the Donbas”

The Ukrainian Week spoke to representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate at the Ministry of Defence about his department's work, Russian military in Ukraine and the threats it is facing

Oleksandr Linchevskiy: “The best-off Ukrainians are demonstrating against the Health Ministry”

Deputy Minister of Health Oleksandr Linchevskiy talked to The Ukrainian Week about the reform of Ukraine’s medical system

So many suspects, so little evidence

On June 14, it was a year since the last exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia took place. Nothing has happened in all that time to make a swap more likely

Stuck in the dark

Ukrainian civilians who are in captivity in “LNR” and “DNR” are one of the most painful problems facing Ukraine

Farther apart

The amalgamation of territorial communities has been chaotic. This may lead to unequal funding, abilities to support themselves and impact on local residents

Danubian Principalities

Decentralisation started in Odesa Oblast almost eighteen months ago. The initiative was sometimes successful in the north, while the south has seen a fundamentally different process