This follows from respective presidential decree 423 dated June 21, Ukrainian News Agency reports

Russian authorities must release the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were captured last year after entering the Kerch Strait, a United Nations maritime tribunal has ruled

An international tribunal has ordered Russia to "immediately" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval ships it seized off Crimea in November

Ukraine's embassy wrote that a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider reached out in 2016 seeking dirt on President Trump's campaign

The Ukrainian Week talked with a Japanese political scientist to learn about Tokyo's relations with Beijing, the situation with the Kuril Islands and possible scenarios of exacerbation in Asia

A Ukrainian court on Thursday ruled that the 2016 nationalization of a major bank owned by a tycoon was illegal, sending shockwaves through the country’s financial community

How Yevhen Konovalets managed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as it turned to follow the course of Halychyna youth

The group has been linked to violence and public disorder, the Embassy stressed

The investigation department of Russia’s Federal Security Service handed out orders on scheduling an expert psychiatric examination (a kind of forensic test) to two more captive Ukrainian sailors Vasyl Soroka and Viktor Bespalchenko

National identity in the 21st century from a sociological perspective

The Ukrainian Week talked with a representative of the Swiss humanitarian organization Geneva Call on the contemporary conflicts, the features of the search for justice and the application of international humanitarian law in an armed conflict

The Azov was withdrawn from Mariupol in the summer of 2016

What are the prospects for the sciences in Ukraine in 2019?

From February 2019, customers will be able to start using some Ukrainian ATMs and bank terminals for dollar and euro transactions

In addition, Raiffeisen Bank Aval was fined UAH 450,000 ($16,393)

The mark of Russia in international political organizations

“Breaking Point: The War For Democracy In Ukraine” is a documentary on the Euromaidan Revolution that ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from power in 2014

During the 28th Economic Forum in Krynica-Zdrój (Poland) The Ukrainian Week discussed with the Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of the Czech Republic about the issue of protection from cyberattacks and the possibilities for international regulation in the cyberspace

The next launch of the Antares middle-class launch vehicle is scheduled for Nov. 15.

Ukraine has selected Serhey Loznitsa's Donbas, a drama centered on an ongoing military conflict in East Ukraine, for the best foreign-language film Oscar race.

Founded in 1796 by magnate Stanislaw Potocki for his wife Zofia, this arboretum is home to over 2,000 local and exotic plants, landscaping designs from the early 19th century inspired by Greek myths admired by Zofia, originally from Greece, and beautiful scenery at any time of year

Different human rights and feminist organizations marched on the International Women's Day under the slogan "Enough patience". The rally gathered nearly 1,000 participants who walked in downtown Kyiv with posters and feminist slogans protesting violence against women and advocating the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, unfair pay and other forms of discrimination. A small group of women had a counterrally with anti-feminist slogans at Mykhailivska Square

What’s new for Ukraine’s defense and security institutions in the President’s national security draft law?

Deputy Chair of the National Bank of Ukraine Council and Honorary President of the Kyiv School of Economics on monetary policy, mid-term risks, fundamental problems in Ukraine’s economy, the role of confidence and the restoration of fairness in economic development

The annual speech of the President outlines accomplishments and failures. Over the course of modern Ukrainian history, the addresses have painted the image of the country’s every leader and his era in politics

President Poroshenko's state of the nation address to the Rada

The blockade of the occupied parts of the Donbas is a consequence of the irresponsible actions of the top leadership in Ukraine and their imitation war against Russia. The legal side of this confrontation could have a decisive impact

Why banking and lending don’t go together with populism

In public discourse over bank reforms, what often gets left out is the voice of bankers themselves, although they are the ones who can offer the most professional assessment of the changes being carried out. One of them is Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval (RBA) Volodymyr Lavrenchuk. The Ukrainian Week talked to him about what’s been done and what Ukrainian banks can expect in the future.

NBU Deputy Chairman on the quality of changes in the banking system and the new prospects they open for Ukraine

The benefits and flaws of PrivatBank transfer into state hands

What kind of a leader is Germany between the US, China and Russia? How do German politicians view their country’s role in the world? The Ukrainian Week spoke about this to Stephen Szabo, Executive Director of the Washington-based Transatlantic Academy

The capacity of a community to maintain an awareness of the image of its past that brings up strong emotions over a long historical period is what we call national memory. Of course, national memory is no mere projection of the past: it is extraordinarily tightly intertwined with the present and the future of people who are joined through common historical memories

A crisis of relations in the victorious team blows up into a real fratricidal war and ends with some of them fraternizing with the one-time enemy. Just over 10 years ago, the country lived through a similar story

First Vice-Speaker, ex-Secretary of the National Secrutiy and Defense Council, and one of the leaders on the Maidan on events from two years ago and their significance today, Russia’s scenarios to destabilize Ukraine, and what security looks like now

By the end of 2015, Ukraine basically had all the core anti-corruption bodies

Ukraine needs an election system that will enable new movements and politicians who enjoy community trust locally

Why absurd opinions on “Ukrainian nationalists” are so persistent, and need to be refuted again and again

Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs on Ukraine’s cooperation with Western partners and international organizations, the consequences of the Minsk agreement and the upcoming local elections

Mr. Strikha spoke to The Ukrainian Week about the current status and the potential of the Ukrainian science, the need for reform at the National Academy of Sciences, and forged academic degrees.

On the maladies afflicting Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and its chances of recovery

If current trends in bilateral trade are maintained, by 2016 Ukraine will be ready to survive even a full-scale Russian trade blockade

The Ukrainian Week spoke to the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations about the transformation of the UN, Ukraine’s cooperation with neutral member-nations, and isolation of Moscow

Volunteers who raise funds for the Ukrainian military share their motivations, worries and bank details for those who are willing to donate

Terrorists attack Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation forces with tanks, mines and anti-tank guided missiles near the villages of Marynivka, Tarany and Stepanivka in Donetsk Oblast, the National Guard’s press service reports

The Ukrainian Week talked to Damon Wilson, executive vice-president of The Atlantic Council, about the establishment of the pro-Ukrainian community in the world, the US-Russia relations after the annexation of Crimea, the new Ukrainian military and the likelihood of NATO MAP for Ukraine

MPs supported candidates to replace acting Chair of the NBU, Prosecutor General and Foreign Minister offered by President Poroshenko in the vote today

Andriy Senchenko, Acting Chief of Staff, suggested that terrorist attacks could take place on May 9 after the closed meeting of the National Security and Defence Council with chiefs of security authorities on May 6

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

What is happening in Ukraine is a direct reaction to the lack of consideration of the authorities for the aspirations of its citizens to be part of Europe and to live in a country governed in accordance with democratic principles and respect for human rights

The campaign offers Ukrainian journalists support and urges anyone to send in photos or alerts should any attack on a journalist take place

Based on the Law on the Cabinet of Ministers, First Vice Premier Serhiy Arbuzov will be Acting Premier, Azarov's press-secretary Vitaliy Lukianenko says

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

The Ukrainian Week takes a tour around castles handed over into concession

The walls of the True Cross Monastery in Pidkamin are like an open history book bearing traces of the Batu Khan invasion, two world wars and Soviet occupation

Once a major turbulent waterway of Lviv, the Poltva is now locked in a subterranean concrete tunnel. In addition to being the main channel, the underground labyrinth hides numerous Soviet military objects, bomb shelters and passageways to the basements of old buildings and churches

College students in Odesa campaign against Ukrainophobia in local high schools

Remote villages in Polissia are home to the descendants of old noble families

Slender Gothic towers, lavish Baroque iconostases, and solid timber domes that trace back to pre-Christian times – The Ukrainian Week takes you on a tour of the unique wooden churches scattered along the Polish-Ukrainian border

The Ukrainian Week visits places where tourists have yet to set foot

Post-Soviet millionaires are keeping Italian resorts afloat during the financial crisis. They are also changing the traditional atmosphere beyond recognition as skyrocketing prices encourage the locals to sell their property and leave

The submerged village of Bakota in the Podil Tovtry National Park hides historic secrets underwater

The United States wants to help Ukraine achieve greater energy independence and support the country's European choice, new U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said. Interfax-Ukraine quotes

The Ukrainian Week travels to Sumy Oblast in search of knights, nymphs and the inspiration for Tchaikovsky’s The Storm

US Ambassador John Tefft talks to The Ukrainian Week before the end of his tenure in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of events not to miss in Ukraine in August

As Zygmunt Bauman noted, classical politics has always been related to the conversion of private problems into public issues (at the same time, internalizing public issues and turning them into private or even existential problems). Today this political mechanism has clearly been taken apart. Thus, what we in our postmodern politics treat as public issues, most often are the private issues of public figures.

Electronic music in Poland, hard rock in Ukraine, music and theatre laboratories at the Hungarian Sziget, and history, from the Paleolithic Age to Post-Modernism, in art

The myths of the “Great Patriotic War” are a massive misrepresentation of history and a tricky political trap for Ukrainians who are forbidden from recovering their own history and claiming recognition of their suffering

A town of two names and two worlds

A walk through the symbols, dreams and melancholy of Sokyryntsi-Trostianets

While Russia accuses Ukraine of "forced Ukrainization", Ukrainian-speakers face discrimination today, just like they did in times of colonial dependence

Home to abundant vegetation and ghosts in military uniforms, the half-ruined walls of now little-known and neglected forts - unique pieces of defence architecture - once withstood the attacks of Cossacks and Tatars

The Ukrainian Week dives into the watery wonders of the Ukrainian mountains

The Ukrainian Week peacefully “invades” the town of Zbarazh

Film director Tom Hooper talks about Les Misérables as a breakthrough in the musical genre

The gorges dividing the largest highland pastures of the Ukrainian Carpathians hide untold secrets

The village of Kolochava is trying to fight chronic labour migration through tourism

Impact events have greatly changed our planet, including the territory of contemporary Ukraine

Tourist attractions in Kharkiv Oblast worth seeing, regardless of the season or the weather

If jus soli and jus sanguinis are in the past, what makes a nation what it is?

Heavenly forces don’t take the easy way. In order to roll a rock from the sea up to the top of a mountain, they can first level the mountain, chisel its fragments with the tide, dry the sea and raise a new mountain range from the depths of the sea.

The world love for all things ethnic has reached Ukraine. As a result, the number of open air folk museums – skansens - is growing along with the interest in them

The Ukrainian Week takes a drive to explore places where significant military campaigns had taken place

Thrill seekers head to Zhytomyr and Rivne forests – a terra incognita for most Ukrainians

ENEMO notes regress compared to previous elections

ENEMO announces its observation plan of Election Day in Ukraine

Jakob Kellenberger is one of the diplomats who firmly believe that any interstate affairs should be based on certain values.

Just hearing the name of the Ukrainian city Sumy makes one want to go travelling. "Sumka" means suitcase, so let's visit Sumy, a place packed with places of interest sure to delight tourists.

Must-sees for every Ukrainian tourist who visits the French capital include the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de Cluny, and so on. But Paris also has many places linked to Ukraine…

Lack of money, stereotypes and simple laziness deprive Ukrainians of even local travel

ENEMO welcomes the Central Election Commission`s decision to allow voters to change voting place only within DECs

Extreme city tours reveal a different Kyiv

ENEMO expresses concerns regarding sudden change of rules for establishing precinct election commissions by a single draw of lots

This wondrous place has become a magnet for talented people

European Network of Elections Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO):“Lottery for DECs composition should have been conducted for each DEC separately”

Mykolayiv Oblast’s attraction is the energy of the turbulent Southern Buh and the virginity of its granite prairies

For most people of the so-called Old World, “nationalism” is a term widely used by researchers, politicians and publicists, while for many Ukrainians it still has an ideological and political meaning.