The Ukrainian Week

9 December, 2019	History	Bazhan undesired What was concealed in the Stalin Laureate’s biography?
11 October, 2019	Society	The evolution of homo sovieticus Why is it so much harder than anyone expected to break ties with the soviet past?
29 January, 2014	World	William Browder: Many people in London or Geneva have blood on their hands from handling blood money from former Soviet states William Browder, the Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, turned campaigner and began to wage war for justice after one of his lawyers, Sergei Magnitsky, was killed in a Moscow prison.
30 September, 2013	News	*The Washington Post*: Former Soviet states stand up to Russia. Will the U.S.? In a replay of the classic East-West rivalry of the Cold War, but with the United States conspicuously on the sidelines, Russia has used economic and security threats to draw post-communist countries into its Eurasian Customs Union and to block the European Union’s Eastern Partnership initiative, Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, writes for WP
20 September, 2013	Society	Francis Fukuyama on middle class, trust for the state and the end of history "Not all countries will become successful democracies. But I still think of liberal democracy as the only serious alternative"
21 August, 2013	Economics	A Road Map for Economic De-Sovietization A profound reboot of Ukraine’s socio-economic system is the only way to transform it from an uncompetitive Soviet fragment to a modern dynamic economy
17 May, 2013	Politics	Captive to the Great Lie Why are Batkivshchyna and UDAR leaders celebrating a Ukrainian tragedy?
30 April, 2013	History	A Difficult Return To regain its status as a natural part of Europe, Ukraine needs to break free from Russian and Soviet colonial heritage
30 April, 2013	History	Compromise or Capitulation? Ukrainian-European or the Soviet-Russian civilizational model will win out: with the former, Ukraine will quickly catch up with its Western neighbours. With the latter, it will likely cease to exist
29 April, 2013	World	Estonia: Restoration Meant No to a Soviet Legacy Estonians took radical action to get rid from the Soviet legal system and laid the foundation for the rule of law, with a clear separation of powers and an independent judiciary.
14 March, 2013		Does a “Sorry” Make Sense? Apologising for past events in history has become an explosive issue around the world. Should statesmen take personal responsibility for events that happened long before they were born?
22 February, 2013	Society	Political Madness Dutch Sovietologist Robert van Voren speaks about Soviet repressive psychiatry and its surviving offshoots
3 May, 2012	History	A Battle For the Past Jerzy Eisler talks about the role of history in contemporary Poland and the country's experience with de-sovietization
5 February, 2012		Grutas Park: a Social Realism Museum
4 February, 2012	History	Grutas Park: a Social Realism Museum Attracts 100,000 Visitors a Year Village Grutas is located near the small Lithuanian resort town Druskininkai. The village’s name evokes a range of emotions – from outrage to satirical smiles – but leaves no-one in Lithuania indifferent. The reason — its unusual open-air museum, Grutas Park, where the key exhibits are the sculptures of Soviet leaders that long "decorated" squares in Lithuanian cities. These are the monuments in front of which both rallies were held and pioneers took their oaths
16 January, 2012	World	Running Away From Communism Ronaldas Racinkas, who is tasked with providing a legal assessment of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes against Lithuanians, speaks on his country’s successes and its failures in saying goodbye to its Soviet legacy
16 January, 2012	History	So, There Was an Occupation, But No-one Did the Occupying? The Occupation Museum of Latvia is a reflection of the country’s historical contradictions
10 January, 2012	History	“Fun” Occupation Estonia established a museum with a good sense of humor, evidently to attract more Russians
26 October, 2011	History	House of Terror A museum by this name opened in Budapest in 2002 to tell about two tragic periods in Hungarian history – the repressive rules of the Nazis and of the Soviets
19 October, 2011	History	Excursion to Hell Eugenijus Peikštenis, director of the Museum of Genocide Victims, speaks about how the taboo history of Soviet repressions came to light
19 October, 2011	History	Museum In KGB Prison Lithuanian authorities set up the Museum of Genocide Victims in a building once occupied by the KGB
3 October, 2011	History	Mshvidobit*, USSR! The Museum of Soviet Occupation in Georgia is a monument to the nation's critical reappraisal and rejection of is Soviet past
23 September, 2011	History	Overcoming Nihilism Why an American decided to set up a Museum of Communism in the Czech Republic
2 February, 2011		Soviet Heritage
30 December, 2010	Politics	USSR Is Back In 2011, Ukraine will in many ways look like the USSR at the time of stagnation