The Ukrainian Week

5 April, 2020	Breaking news	Ukraine adds political drama to coronavirus crisis (Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov pictured in Kyiv on April 4, 2020)
21 January, 2020	Politics	The post-honeymoon mood Ukrainians are not yet disappointed with the choice of the president and MPs. But some of the government’s actions no longer excite the majority
24 May, 2019	Politics	Don’t cross the bouys There are limits to the possible in domestic politics and Volodymyr Zelenskiy should not stretch them
10 September, 2018	Politics	The chaos begins What to expect in the new parliamentary season
23 March, 2018	Politics	Three cards up the sleeve What cyberthreats Ukraine is likely to face in 2019 elections, and what it is doing to prevent them
23 March, 2018	Politics	Deliberately undecided Who wins the next election won’t be decided by the voters who are now supporting various parties and candidates but by those who will vacillate until the very last minute
23 March, 2018	Politics	Vote busters What those in power and opposition are likely to do to improve their rates and mobilize the electorate
23 March, 2018	Politics	The spin-doctor headache Undecided voters are a tasty morsel for parties that are not in the Verkhovna Rada, yet none of these parties has much of a chance of winning them over in significant numbers
23 March, 2018	Society	Shades of the Fourth Republic What threats face Ukraine if a fragmented Verkhovna Rada is elected that does not represent the interests of the majority of Ukrainians?
2 March, 2018	History	The genesis of Ukrainian conservatism What shaped the aristocratic tradition in politics between the Cossack period and the liberation struggle in 1917-1920
2 February, 2018	Society	A wolf in sheep’s clothing In a recent poll, Razumkov Center, a sociology group, has found that 73% of Ukrainians fully or partly agree with the statement that political parties which spend a long time in power always have tainted reputation. So they only believe new political forces and their leaders
1 February, 2018	Society	Frustrated and optimistic 2017 was not exceptional nor a turning point in Ukrainian politics. However, it exposed the threats behind the bustle of its main players much more clearly
22 December, 2017	Politics	A one-trick pony? What, ultimately, is the essence and the purpose of Oleh Liashko, the leader of the modern radicals?
20 November, 2017	Politics	If elections were held tomorrow Ukraine’s Parliament has started to change the electoral system. Will they be able to finish the job and what will change if the reform goes through?
20 November, 2017	Politics	Populism’s last gasp What political ambitions do Yulia Tymoshenko and her party hope to achieve before the 2019 elections?
14 June, 2017		“A huge question is whether it will become a norm that presidents and prime ministers will start to use social media to drive mainstream media coverage more globally” New York University Professor about the impact of social media on the political behavior of citizens, their involvement in protest movements, and ways in which Twitter and Facebook have changed the specifics of the race in the US and European countries
8 June, 2017	Politics	Poroshenko vs the memes How Ukrainian social media users react to the President
23 March, 2017	Politics	Time for a strong middle-class party What is needed for Ukraine to have a political force that is not linked to oligarchs
19 October, 2016	Politics	New Donetskites How generations shift in the electoral field of the former Party of Regions clans
19 October, 2016	Politics	In a narrow niche What the self-proclaimed democratic opposition to the current government wants and can achieve
19 July, 2016	Politics	Multiplication by division The prospects of two young liberal parties
1 July, 2016	Politics	The fine art of compromise Although his powers are president of Ukraine are quite limited, over the last two years Petro Poroshenko has learned to use them like a virtuoso, allowing him considerable influence over the legislature and Government
11 April, 2016	Politics	In anticipation of a temporary lull 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
26 February, 2016	Politics	Breaking out of hollow rhetoric What makes Ukrainians vulnerable to populism
16 December, 2015	Politics	Push and Shove The Cabinet is bound to be shuffled. The bargaining is already underway. The new one is unlikely to be a government of technocrats
12 November, 2015		Vladimir Putin as Entertainer The danger of clownish dictators
5 January, 2015	Politics	Post-Revolution Hangover Who will win the war of each against all in Ukrainian politics?
23 April, 2014	Politics	Crimean Mafia in Politics Russian aggression in Crimea reveals interesting aspects of using criminal groups in politics