The Ukrainian Week talks with Andriy Kurkov, Ukraine’s most translated contemporary Russian-speaking author, about the essence and tempo of social changes, the Russian language and Russian presence in Ukraine.

The EU must now do everything it can to help the Ukrainian people integrate with Europe, bypassing the gangster regime around Mr Yanukovych.

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

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

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

A British Russophile shares his views on the spiritual roots of the demographic tragedy affecting the Russian nation

As neighbouring states actively offer passports to Ukrainian citizens, the Verkhovna Rada is set to consider a draft law on dual citizenship. The potential threats to Ukraine’s national security are obvious.

No matter how popular Oswald Spengler is deemed to become again due to Europe's profound crisis, one thing does not allow me to take him seriously. True, he made many subtle points regarding the decline of Europe between the two world wars, yet one of the most dubious ideas defended by the author of The Decline of the West was on the parallel and separate existence of cultures.

Historian Andreas Kappeler speaks on the political concept of Europe and ways to forge European identity