Law and self-governance in Ukraine’s territory from the 14th through the 18th century

The evolution of Ukrainian elite and its state-building concepts offers a valuable lesson to the country today

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

That turbulent period taught Ukrainians that the ideals of national freedom and solidarity must not be squandered on attractive slogans about social equality, “land and freedom” or “land to peasants”

In 1918, Ukrainian conservatives tried to implement a reform agenda that was free of populism and relied on private property as the foundation of culture and civilization

Ukraine’s economic relations were originally European. So were its social lifestyle and institutions

Caught between warring superpowers and without a state of their own, Ukrainians formed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army with an eye to the creation of an independent nation

The Battle of Vienna took place 330 years ago. It was the final and most significant battle between Christian Europe and the Muslim East

The dawn of Indo-Europeans on the Ukrainian steppes

The 70th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy was marked by the historically one-sided resolutions of the Polish Senate and Sejm; the request of Group of 148 that scorns anything Ukrainian (148 MPs from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party wrote an official letter to the Polish Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament, requesting it to recognize the Volyn tragedy as a genocide of the Polish people – Ed.); and a surprising symbiosis of the Communist Party, aggressive advocates of the Russian World in Ukraine and radical right-wing forces in Poland on the one hand, and the feeble stance of most of the Ukrainian intelligentsia regarding this issue on the other.

Oleksandr Feldman, a dyed-in-the-wool fighter against Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism and the sponsor of a bill he introduced while still a BYuT member and which reflects this crusade, has reached new political heights