An unwelcome host

Ukraine's place in modern migration

Geoff Wordley: “It looks like the main movements of IDPs have now stopped”

Prior to his appointment in Ukraine as Head of the UNHCR Sub-Office in Dnipropetrovsk, Geoff Wordley served in conflict-affected Rwanda, Kenya, Croatia, Kosovo, South Sudan, Sudan, and Iraq among others. He spent the past year in Eastern Ukraine, supervising support for IDPs in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Shortly before he left Ukraine in April, The Ukrainian Week spoke to Mr. Wordley about the impact of forced migration during conflicts on social and economic structures in the regions and countries where they occur, the role of UNHCR in the current crisis in Ukraine, and the problems to solve as priority issues in similar situations.

Serhiy Hunko: "We cannot issue documents to unidentified persons"

Press Officer for the State Migration Service of Ukraine spoke to The Ukrainian Week about foreign refugees, internally displaced persons and their status in Ukraine

Sabotage in the name of “peace”

A new Russian propaganda agency has started up in Kyiv as part of the Kremlin’s fifth column of “soft power”

The aggressive demon of victory

Ukrainian calendar has obviously got some dates that are more problem-plagued than others. May events of the last two years, including the anniversary of Odesa tragedy and Victory Day, prove this true. On these days, the old world represented by elderly pensioners and pro-Russian Ukrainians clashes with the relatively new one represented by pro-Ukrainian youth

Odesa, May 2. A simmering outburst

Expectation of confrontations on May 2, the anniversary of the Trade Unions Building tragedy when 48 people died in a fire in Odesa, has already become a tradition. However, for the second consecutive year, there have been no clashes, no civil unrest, and no mass disorders

"The expectation of death is worse than death itself"

What war captives and kidnapped civilians go through in the occupied territories, and how exchange mechanisms work

The great persecution

25 Ukrainians are held in captivity by the Russians, accused of committing serious crimes. Yet international rights organizations still have not recognized them as political prisoners

Truly hearing the Donbas

Patriots from Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts strive to become an influential force

Patriarch Filaret: "Almost all Orthodox Churches believe that Ukraine should have its own Church"

Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate on church canonicity and manipulations around it, and independence of Ukrainian Church

Once and For All

After the hybrid war, time to deal with the hybrid independence

Donbas Military Fiction

How books turned war into reality

Moving Down the Mind

How television paralyzes people

Out of Sight

Decommunisation as a way to decolonise the visual space of Ukrainian cities

The Surrender of Luhansk SBU

State Security Bureau officer on the early stage of the "Russian spring"

Myths about the "Donetsk People's Republic"

Ukrainians tend to get their stereotypes about the "DPR" primarily from distorted media reports and have not been to Donetsk or other currently "republican" cities since they were seized. Some had a little experience of life in "Novorossia" and left, still believing that nothing has changed there since summer 2014.

The Gen-3 Mission: Beating the Holodomor effect

How much time for Ukrainians to get over the post-genocide syndrome?

Peter Pomerantsev: "Whenever new technology appears, it leads to hellish lies and propaganda"

British writer and media expert on how media simulacra affect various audiences and why it is helpful to watch Ukrainian experience and mistakes in combating them

How Much Longer This War?

The Ukrainian Week polls the military, officials and politicians about the prospects for a longterm ceasefire

Andriy Stempitsky: “The state machine is working to discredit us”

Commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, a paramilitary unit of the Right Sector, speaks about risks in the Minsk accords, the pressure of Ukraine’s on the Right Sector, and things to be done to win the war

An Unlikely Blend

The origin and transformations of the Right Sector through the Maidan and war

The Power of Rural Ukraine

Consolidation of villages around towns will accumulate up to a half of Ukraine’s population in agricultural communities and encourage them to actively participate in sociopolitical life

Tender for Procurement of Medical Equipment and Consumables

Première Urgence – Aide Médicale Internationale intends to award a purchase contract for procurement of medical equipment and consumables

Hostages of the Kremlin

President Poroshenko says there are 30 Ukrainian citizens currently being illegally held in Russia. Human rights advocates that they know about the situation with 11, most of whom the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has yet to provide with lawyers

We Can Win After All

Ukrainian victories in the East

Giray's Faith

The roots of moderate Islam of the Crimean Tatars are buried in the history of this people