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

Freedom of Belief No More

Believers in Eastern Ukraine faced brutal intolerance, repression and murder

Fear of Mobilization: Myths and Reality

An inside look at how the army is being formed

Nearest Recruiting Station

Colonel Serhiy Halushko, Deputy Head of Information Technology Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, on practical aspects of the mobilization campaign

Catching Up With the Future

The present and future of IT business in Ukraine

Deputy Education Minister Maksym Strikha: "Science is not a means of satisfying one's curiosity, but the guarantee of the national security"

Mr. Strikha spoke to The Ukrainian Week about the current status and the potential of the Ukrainian science, the need for reform at the National Academy of Sciences, and forged academic degrees.

Trouble at the Academy

On the maladies afflicting Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and its chances of recovery

To Sell Boryspil Airport

During the Yanukovych era, Boryspil International Airport went through at least two high-profile scandals associated with the attempts to transfer it into private hands. But even after officials were changed in offices, these attempts continue

The Origins of Donetsk Separatism

Donetsk separatism only truly became a noticeable problem in 2014. Until then, almost no one believed that it existed.

How Russian Troops Entered Donbas on August 23

For four days, the Russian "brothers" made preparations to shoot down Ukrainian troops near Ilovaysk

The Nerve of Annexation

Some experts feel that the war in the Donbas was started to distract attention from the annexation of Crimea and force its recognition. If this is the case, the goal has almost been achieved. Indeed, when the military and civilians are dying, who can be bothered with Crimea where everything seems to be relatively quiet? However, that quietness is deceptive.

Crimea: The Multitude of Nations

The Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Karaites, Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Ukrainians, Russians, Romani – these are just the most prominent of the ethnic groups that populated the peninsula over the last 150 years

Without 1933, There Would Be No 2014

The echoes of the Famine in today's separatism in South-Eastern Ukraine

The Donetsk Syndrome

Ukrainian war veterans return from the Donbas. And face a new war

A month in captivity in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”

Ruslan Petrenko (not his real name) from a small town near Donetsk was a pro-Ukrainian activist. This got him in trouble: he was taken hostage by the “DNR” terrorists and spent more than a month in captivity

The Next People’s Republic?

Without “tourists” from Russia, the separatist movement in Kharkiv has quickly marginalised. If not for pro-Russian sympathies of the local authorities, it would hardly pose any threat at all

Giovanni Kessler: “A Comprehensive fight against corruption cannot be confined to single cases, there is a need for an overall strategy to combat fraud and corruption”

The Ukrainian Week met with Giovanni Kessler who is the current Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) during his visit to Ukraine. We spoke on the instruments which Ukraine can apply to fight corruption more effectively, possibility of creation of the joint EU-Ukraine body for corruption investigation and the role of OLAF in this process.

“Is There Any Other Way?”

The Ukrainian Week speaks to proactive young Ukrainians – soldiers, volunteers and activists – to find out what they think of as their major accomplishment, of their peers in politics, and of leaving Ukraine

Sociologist Yevhen Holovakha: “30 years is a minimum term for a change in values”

In his interview for The Ukrainian Week, sociologist Yevhen Holovakha discusses ways used to install Soviet values, explains why nostalgia about the USSR and argues that one efficient way to de-Sovietize society is to dispel the myth about the high standard of social care under the Bolsheviks