1 November, 2021 | Breaking news | The buildup of Russian troops on the country’s border with Ukraine over the past week has raised concerns among officials in the U.S. and Europe |
3 June, 2021 | World | How British Conservatives and Prime Minister Boris Johnson are taking advantage of new political trends |
27 March, 2021 | Politics | What European Solidarity bet on in Odesa and why it worked |
10 March, 2021 | Politics | How the Lviv media showed themselves in the conditions of keen political struggle in the city |
1 February, 2021 | World | How official exit from the European Union has affected the United Kingdom |
8 December, 2020 | World | What is the significance of the strategic partnership agreement between Ukraine and the United Kingdom? |
6 October, 2020 | Breaking news | The European side intends within the framework of the EU-Ukraine summit to raise the issue of the independence of anti-corruption bodies and the state of fight against corruption in general |
21 September, 2020 | Breaking news | After three years of a hard-won visa-free regime with the Schengen Zone countries, European Union officials say Ukraine could lose it |
13 July, 2020 | Politics | The Ukrainian Week met with General (ret.) Ben Hodges, former commander of United States Army Europe, now a Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) to discuss possible Russian attack on Ukraine, Western answer on such actions, and the problems of the Black Sea region |
10 July, 2020 | Breaking news | With European Union destinations still off-limits for Ukrainian tourists, the country’s own Black Sea and Azov Sea resorts are experiencing an early summer boom as Ukrainians seek out holiday options closer to home |
22 June, 2020 | World | How the pandemic undermines confidence in the UK government |
14 May, 2020 | Breaking news | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expecting the gross domestic product of Ukraine to fall by 4.5% in 2020 |
11 May, 2020 | World | What has changed in the United Kingdom since leaving the EU |
14 April, 2020 | Economics | The temporary dip in the price of natural gas on the European market is not a reason for Ukraine to stop expanding domestic extraction |
22 January, 2020 | World | What future for the EU after Brexit? |
13 December, 2019 | Breaking news | The EU confirms its support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity |
24 July, 2019 | World | After European elections: a new start? |
21 July, 2019 | World | Why is right-wing populism on the rise around the world |
2 July, 2019 | Breaking news | The Russian side already tried to gather a council meeting on the law on Volodymyr Zelenskiy's inauguration day on May 20
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21 June, 2019 | World | The Ukrainian Week talked again with an attorney representing the families of those killed in the disaster of the Malaysian MH17 flight in a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the European Court of Human Rights, on the evidence in this case, and on the possible consequences of the verdict for Russia |
10 June, 2019 | Economics | The consequences of default for Ukraine |
24 May, 2019 | Breaking news | The European Union is interested in high-level transport cooperation with Ukraine and further development and reformation of the transport sector in accordance with EU norms and standards |
22 March, 2019 | Politics | What measures Europe can apply to former ISIS militants |
24 February, 2019 | World | What is the current situation of Brexit in the United Kingdom |
22 February, 2019 | Breaking news | The European Union is set next week to remove Andriy Klyuyev, the head of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential administration, from its sanctions list |
20 February, 2019 | World | What should lie at the foundation of Ukraine’s integration into a united Europe so that later on there isn’t an Ukrexit? |
6 February, 2019 | Politics | What unreasonable public expectations regarding the EU might get in the way of Ukraine’s eurointegration? |
5 February, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Gryb allowed to see the consul, but after the verdict, as Ukraine’s Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova said |
5 February, 2019 | Politics | What model of European integration Ukraine needs |
30 January, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukraine has restarted exports of its own natural gas to Europe after fifteen years, exporting a relatively small amount to Slovakia, seemingly to demonstrate to the Ukrainian gas sector how easily it can be done |
29 January, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced he will seek reelection in the March presidential election, and vowed to press for European Union and NATO membership |
30 December, 2018 | Breaking news | Russia has banned chocolate, beer and nappies made in Ukraine, in its latest economic sanctions on Kyiv |
26 December, 2018 | World | The mark of Russia in international political organizations |
11 December, 2018 | World | What ails the European allies of Donald Trump |
28 November, 2018 | World | The Council of Europe is preparing to walk back on its principles so that Russia could resume paying its membership fees |
26 November, 2018 | World | What proportion of Ukrainians really knows what NATO is and how their attitudes differ from those of their EU neighbors |
8 November, 2018 | Economics | Ukrainian exports to the EU have reached record volumes and continue to rise sharply. But the potential for economic integration is far from being used effectively. |
2 November, 2018 | World | Do we see an understanding of the Russian threat in the European Union? |
12 August, 2018 | World | Why is it time Europe changed its priorities |
9 August, 2018 | Society | Why a big part of the Roma community is so poorly integrated all across Europe |
21 May, 2018 | Economics | The Kremlin's gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine are a threat to the country's energy security. What can it do to protect itself from upcoming risks |
31 March, 2017 | Globalisation and interdependence until recently have been seen as the guarantors of peace and cooperation. These have turned out to be the source of conflicts and the instruments of pressure | |
2 February, 2017 | In 2017, the world will be defined by three key terms: leadership, populism and human values | |
26 July, 2016 | Politics | Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks on the human rights situation in Donbas and Crimea, and his further plan regarding these territories |
15 July, 2016 | World | My story is inseparable from my experience as a member of the European Parliament. During my term (2009-2014), I was in a position to witness the debates and political skirmishes in the House that allowed me to anticipate easily what happened recently in the United Kingdom |
27 June, 2016 | Vice Premier for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration on her priorities and tools, details of Ukraine’s cooperation with NATO, and Ukraine’s overall position on the international arena | |
25 January, 2016 | In countries such as Spain, France or Germany, public perceptions on Ukraine, the Maidan and the war, are a mixture of big-picture frame alongside much confusion | |
16 December, 2015 | The most important challenges are to lay genuinely strong and stable political foundations so that Ukraine never swerves away from its European course of reform regardless of any political uncertainties future elections may bring | |
16 December, 2015 | By liquidity of evil, I assume that we live in a deterministic, pessimistic, fatalistic, fear-and-panic-ridden society, which still tends to cherish its time-honoured, albeit out of date and misleading, liberal-democratic credentials | |
9 December, 2015 | It may take two generations of Ukrainians to rebuild and reorient the country, yet Ukraine won the historic and epic battle for the future | |
19 August, 2015 | World | The interests and prejudices of officials and diplomats from the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe and other international agencies sometimes affect policy decisions more than they should |
8 July, 2015 | Economics | A number of challenges and opportunities are coming Ukraine’s way as the European gas market undergoes a major restructurin |
18 June, 2015 | The Ukrainian Week spoke to the President of the European Investment Bank about priorities in cooperation with Ukraine, quality control of projects that receive access to the funding and SMEs as a potential driver of Ukraine’s economy | |
20 May, 2015 | It is in Europe’s interests to prevent Ukraine from becoming a failed state and to contribute to its democratic normalisation | |
14 May, 2015 | World | The first speaker of the Seimas of the independent Lithuania and EMP until recently on the way Europe is changing its perception of Russia, the shifting "center of Europeanness", and why it is crucial for Ukrainians to resist disenchantment |
14 May, 2015 | Europe won’t bear the cost or the risk for the defences it needs. That won’t change until Europeans are a lot more scared or angry than they are now—which may be too late | |
12 May, 2015 | World | The veterans fought for freedom and a better life in Europe. Can that peace and prosperity now endure in the face of so many new challenges? |
13 November, 2014 | Not everyone raised under western democracy considers freedom a universal value. Especially when it comes to the freedom of those whom they are not accustomed to noticing, hearing, or understanding | |
23 October, 2014 | Soviet Communism was always reminiscent of the nearly Byzantine sacrosanct structure of symbolic authority, and the fusion of the sacral and secular elements of power | |
23 October, 2014 | World | After 1989, East European Communists transformed into social-democrats. Those who survived lustration remained in politics at home through the 1990s and early 2000s |
17 October, 2014 | Politics | Discussions about effectiveness of sanctions made fruitful grounds for speculations by those inclined to fish in troubled waters. Some representatives of French business openly ignore the EU restrictions declaring readiness to invest in Crimea and other partnerships with Russia |
22 August, 2014 | News | In a comment on the crossing of the Ukrainian border by the Russian convoy for The Ukrainian Week, Daniel Holtgen, Spokesperson of the Council of Europe Secretary General, says that the CoE appeals to both sides to find an agreement which respects Ukraine’s territorial integrity and international law |
19 August, 2014 | World | Bribing Western intellectuals and exporting Russia’s peculiar ideology have long been a favourite diversion of Russian rulers |
12 August, 2014 | World | Rebecca Harms, the President of the Greens-European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, is one of EMPs who watch the situation in Ukraine closely. During her latest visit to Ukraine, The Ukrainian Week took a chance to speak to her shortly after her return from Eastern Ukraine. |
11 July, 2014 | News | Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the EU, is disappointed with the EU’s decision on sanctions against Russia |
28 June, 2014 | News | The European Commission says that threats to “punish” European companies that supply or transit gas to Ukraine by Gazprom’s CEO Alexei Miller are absolutely unacceptable |
27 June, 2014 | News | EU leaders claim that new sanctions against Russia could be passed anytime, the European Council says in its conclusions on Ukraine passed at the session in Brussels today |
11 June, 2014 | World | The Ukrainian Week talks to Wolfgang Ischinger, German diplomat who was the Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for National Dialogue Roundtables in Ukraine, on his work, European and Ukrainian co-existence with Russia, and security threats of the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia |
11 June, 2014 | World | The EU is beginning to take concrete action against its excessive dependence on Russian gas |
9 June, 2014 | News | Serbia was forced to halt work on the South Stream gas pipeline, Vice Premier and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Zorana Mihajlović said on Monday |
3 April, 2014 | News | About 98% of the customs duties that Ukrainian iron, steel, farm produce and machinery exporters pay at EU borders will be removed by a proposal backed by European Parliament on Thursday. |
12 February, 2014 | World | How Vladimir Putin has become an example to European right-wing radicals |
12 February, 2014 | What could be a proper metaphor for a unilateral war – the war that has been waged in the void and with much sound and fury, yet that has no real adversaries? The war waged by the self-chasing ghost? Or that by a Don Quixote stripped of any ideals of chivalry, and confined to the fight against a series of imagined phantom-enemies? | |
28 January, 2014 | News | The campaign offers Ukrainian journalists support and urges anyone to send in photos or alerts should any attack on a journalist take place |
23 December, 2013 | Society | US Federal Judge Bohdan Futey talks about the new generation of Ukrainians and threats to Ukraine's independence |
20 December, 2013 | News | The west was prepared to give Kiev at least €20bn in loans if Ukraine agreed sign a landmark European Union integration agreement last month. This information is available due to an internal EU document seen by the Financial Times. |
19 December, 2013 | The EU should apply a softer and wiser approach to Ukrainian society in terms of freedom of movement. No Ukrainian citizen should feel a poor cousin in EU countries | |
18 December, 2013 | Thus far the U.S. reaction to the Ukrainian upheaval has been subdued, as the Obama administration evidently fears alienating Russia, which it needs to pursue its Middle East policies. It is time for the White House to specify its options, as Ukraine stands on the brink of outright conflict | |
17 December, 2013 | The brutal truth is that public opinion in many Western countries cares little for Ukraine – and certainly not enough to risk an open confrontation with Moscow | |
17 December, 2013 | Western diplomats have expressed “concern” over the situation in Ukraine. They “invite participants in the conflict to negotiate” but have hesitated to state a clear stance. This is not without reason | |
15 December, 2013 | Politics | There was a brief euphoria. The President’s incomprehensible and unexpected manoeuvre has baffled and disarmed both the opposition and the public, not to mention his loyal subordinates. |
13 December, 2013 | News | As President Yanukovych’s team is dawdling with the solution of the political crisis in Ukraine, it is trying to get the most out of his defeat, comments Viktor Nebozhenko, President of the Ukrainian Barometer think tank |
13 December, 2013 | News | The people on Maidan were defending something far greater than an association agreement with the EU. They were standing in the way of a police state, defending fundamental European values and defying the post-Soviet order imposed by Russia, The Economist writes |
2 December, 2013 | The EU must now do everything it can to help the Ukrainian people integrate with Europe, bypassing the gangster regime around Mr Yanukovych. | |
25 November, 2013 | World | Despite the growing outcry over immigration, reports show that many immigrants work much harder than native Britons, contribute huge amounts in taxes, and add to employment opportunities |
25 November, 2013 | World | Being in the centre of a clash between civilizations of the East and the West, Ukraine is both a detonator and an object of that clash. In many aspects, its choice is crucial to itself - and Europe's future |
22 November, 2013 | News | Former co-rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for Ukraine Hanne Severinsen says that turning point, which Vilnius summit could become for Ukraine, seems now to have been lost by a Regime that only has their private interests to fight for. |
21 November, 2013 | EU member-state embassies should transform into portals between the past and the future, rather than reserves of Euro-robots sending some to heaven, and others to purgatory | |
20 November, 2013 | History | Ukraine’s economic relations were originally European. So were its social lifestyle and institutions |
19 November, 2013 | News | Opposition gets the parliament to vote for European integration laws as the top priority on Thursday On November 21, the Verkhovna Rada will vote on the European integration laws first thing, Speaker Volodymyr Rybak announces. |
5 November, 2013 | Politics | Postponed Association Agreement signing may become an effective tool to put pressure on Yanukovych, but will make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russia |
1 November, 2013 | Ukraine will remain a friend to a democratic Russia in the future. Now, Ukraine and Russia are bound to bid farewell to one another | |
21 October, 2013 | Politics | The ex-premier’s intention to run in the presidential election may discourage Yanukovych from releasing her in exchange for the Association Agreement |
21 October, 2013 | Politics | Under the cover of European integration, the government has pushed lobbied initiatives through parliament |
16 October, 2013 | History | Stalin’s moves to establish communist governments in Central and Eastern Europe relied largely on local elements and tools already tested in the USSR |
1 October, 2013 | Officially | Parliamentary Assembly's written declaration No.554 |
24 September, 2013 | Politics | As the November Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius draws closer, doubts fade that Kyiv and Brussels will sign the Association Agreement. How they see its implementation, is the question |
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20 September, 2013 | Linas Linkevičius: Countries are free to choose whom they want to join. Their decision depends on arguments. When someone lacks arguments, temptation arises to use pressure and blackmailing | |
17 September, 2013 | News | Ukraine's oligarchs have benefited in the past from the Soviet-style, opaque politics. But analysts say they are ready to sacrifice some of that to EU regulation, Robert Coalson reports for Radio Liberty |