The Ukrainian Week

20 April, 2020	Society	Stanislav Aseyev: “One of the people exchanged with me beat me and was involved in tortures” Stanislav Aseyev, journalist and contributor to The Ukrainian Week, spent two years as hostage to the “DNR” militants. In his interview, he shares why he decided to stay in the occupied part of the Donbas, how he ended up in the “basement” and how he started writing a book in jail
7 March, 2020	Society	The march of dis-integration The self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas are changing their rhetoric about returning to Ukraine and are more actively imposing the attributes of a statelet...
18 February, 2020	Politics	Portrait in dirty grey New Year in occupied Donbas
5 October, 2019	Economics	“Dismissed” from the mines What the supporters of DNR and LNR feared most, the closure of the mines, was accomplished by their terrorist leadership, not by the “junta” in Kyiv
29 March, 2019	Society	Betting on zero How the current and former leadership of the self-declared republics in occupied Donbas see the upcoming elections for President of Ukraine
13 February, 2019	Society	Generation “D” How children in occupied Donbas are being worked on psychologically and informationally
7 February, 2019	Society	One more year down the tubes What’s causing the socio-economic situation in occupied Donbas to get worse?
13 March, 2018	Politics	A process of no progress An update from the occupied parts of the Donbas: monuments to Russian volunteers, shutdown of mobile connection, new arrests of ministers
21 February, 2018	Politics	A historic law of geopolitical scale Important aspects of the new Deoccupation Law
6 July, 2017	Society	Stuck in the dark Ukrainian civilians who are in captivity in “LNR” and “DNR” are one of the most painful problems facing Ukraine
28 April, 2017	Politics	Courts, sanctions and the blockade Ukraine needs to prepare a consolidated claim on Russia’s responsibility for its armed aggression to be used in international courts, as well as laws on the occupied territory and the restoration of territorial integrity
12 December, 2016	Politics	A well-rehearsed scenario How elections in the Donbas usually play out
12 December, 2016	Society	All used up Why is Russia rushing to put an end to the warlords in its self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas?
27 June, 2016	Politics	Through the looking glass: The crazy world of Minsk How Ukrainian politicians see the likelihood of elections in the occupied parts of Donbas
16 May, 2016		The high cost of news In mid-week, Ukraine’s media was rocked by yet another scandal. Myrotvorets or Peacemaker, a site known for publishing information about those who have collaborated with terrorists, published a list of journalists who have been accredited by the “Donetsk People’s Republic”
26 February, 2016		Back to USSR After using leftist populist slogans to heat up the situation in the Donbas in the spring of 2014, Russia’s proxies have brought rapacious, feudal bolshevism to the region instead
21 February, 2015	World	From Cold War to Hot War Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is part of a broader, and more dangerous, confrontation with the West
26 December, 2014	Politics	Who is Waging the War in the Luhansk People’s Republic Widely perceived as the economic and political tandem of the Donbas, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts have actually never been equal partners
16 October, 2014	Society	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