Organize or Face Disappointment

Without grassroots organization and political parties funded by membership dues, Ukrainians will find themselves disappointed once again by self-serving political leaders. Even worse, the country could face further degradation or loss of sovereignty

The Foreign Hundred

The Maidan became both a tourist destination and a place where foreigners, who are not indifferent to the fate of Ukraine, gathered. The flags that flew above it were from various countries, not only those of Ukraine and the EU. The heroes of Nebesna Sotnya - the Heaven Hundred - also include the citizens of other countries. How did, and do, foreigners view the Maidan?

Peter Pomerantsev: “Russia Today is a distraction for more subtle things that Russia does in the sphere of information”

The Ukrainian Week talks to Peter Pomerantsev, British television producer and non-fiction writer who spent nine years in Russia, on Russian state propaganda, new methods of informational war and how Ukraine should defend itself

Heresies and Sects in Russia

Was the West really the source of deviance for Russian orthodoxy?

Pro-Ukrainian Donbas: Intelligent, Creative, Chaotic

Pro-Ukrainian forces in the Donbas neatly fall within the boundaries of the middle class and are in need of organization and government support

Oleh Pokalchuk: "The piety of the today's rich is an old criminal tradition"

A sociopsychological analysis of the "nomenclature continuity" and top officials depicted on icons

Museums Under Occupation

Museums holding over 917,000 exhibits are the price of Ukraine’s cultural loss in Crimea. While museum workers there try to adapt to the new circumstances, Ukraine is looking for ways to keep valuable objects

Self-Preservation for Crimean Muslims

Said Ismagilov, the Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine Ummah: “The status of Muslims here is far better than in Russia”

The Nameless Hundred: The missing people after February 18

What did the police, together with the titushkas, do with the bodies of the people, who were decapitated in the centre of Kyiv on February 18?

Bringing Eastern Ukraine Back Into the Fold

Eastern Ukraine is following in the footsteps of Western Ukraine, but with a considerable delay, natural and historical complications

Ukraine as the Latest Fashion

Poles supported the Maidan gladly and passionately – more so, I think, than Russia supported the anti-Maidans

The Mist of Victory

After Viktor Yanukovych fled and Ukraine found itself on the brink of a war, it seemed Ukrainians could be celebrating the victory, but somehow there was no euphoria. Only a mist.

Volodymyr Vasylenko: “Government bodies were first and foremost responsible for a civilized regulation and solution of the conflict”

The Ukrainian Week speaks to Volodymyr Vasylenko, expert in international law and former Ambassador of Ukraine, about Viktor Yanukovych’s responsibility for crimes against Ukrainian people, grounds for prosecution by the International Criminal Court in Hague and actual assistance the West can provide to Ukraine today

Mafia State

Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian and author of a new book Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia. A former Moscow correspondent, he is currently based at The Guardian's office in London. In the conversation with The Ukrainian Week, Luke Harding explains why Russia is a “Mafia state” in his opinion and why Ukraine is in real danger of becoming one

Donbas. A Stagnation Period

Historian and sociologist Oksana Mikheyeva on why the Donbas intelligentsia is silent and what business in this region wants

Bohdan Futey: “The beating we saw is not just physical, but mental, too. The government wants to evoke fear in people”

US Federal Judge Bohdan Futey talks about the new generation of Ukrainians and threats to Ukraine's independence

Oleh Pokalchuk: The entire Ukrainian people is now turning into a political nation

Social psychologist Oleh Pokalchuk speaks about the nature of relationships between Ukrainians and the Ukrainian authorities during protests

Stanislav Kulchytsky: “If we end up in the Customs Union – we will cement our communist past”

The Ukrainian Week reflects on this in the historic context with historian Stanislav Kulchytsky

The Wonder of Life

The amazing story of a girl who is a step away from death, helping others and making the world a brighter place

Defending Ukrainian at Odesa’s Universities

College students in Odesa campaign against Ukrainophobia in local high schools

Odesa: Politicians as Merchandise

The stereotypical image of Odesa Oblast as a pro-Russian region and mainstay of the Party of Regions turns out to be far from reality

Francis Fukuyama on middle class, trust for the state and the end of history

"Not all countries will become successful democracies. But I still think of liberal democracy as the only serious alternative"

Obstacle Race, or Kyiv by Wheelchair

Despite the government’s assurances of “care”, thousands of people in wheelchairs, as they move around in Kyiv, have to clear numerous obstacles almost imperceptible to the eye but very real for wheels

Drug Trafficking.ua

With a green light from top officials, Ukraine is turning into one of the biggest drug transit countries on the way to the EU

Hostages to Their Own System

Police officers admit that the Ukrainian law enforcement system is so corrupt that they themselves have become trapped

Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist Ryōji Noyori: “What one person can invent is very limited. An important aspect of innovation is to devise a system and ways to use scientific knowledge”

Ryōji Noyori on chemistry as an integral element of human survival, science in Japan’s prosperity and supranational cooperation against global problems