A strict, often brutal visa regime for Ukrainians will hardly stop criminals or potential illegal migrants from getting to the EU. Instead, it may undermine effective business, academic and cultural contacts

The excesses of the EU visa bureaucracy discourage the most pro-European part of Ukrainian society from gaining experience that is different from post-Soviet realities

Visa liberalization-inspired reflections on law and lawlessness

Visa problems arise with countries that are mentally distant from Ukraine and are reluctant to take a closer look at its organizational and administrative culture

The West begins to launch sanctions against some representatives of the Yanukovych regime, but the first “victim” appears to be a provocateur