The Pit of Fear

Why the Maidan in Ukraine has discouraged Belarusians from protests against their authorities

Raimonds Vejonis: "Everything we saw in the Soviet days still goes on, but with new actors"

The Ukrainian Week spoke with Raimonds Vejonis, the newly-elected President of the Republic of Latvia and Minister of Defense when this interview was made, about NATO revival, the "deterrent effect," Putin's unpredictability, and the cost of the conflict in Ukraine to Riga

Dace Melbārde: “One goal of the Russian propaganda is to weaken one’s sense of patriotism and belonging to his or her country”

Latvian Minister of Culture spoke to The Ukrainian Week about Russia’s war for the hearts and minds of young people, and ways for Latvia and Europe to resist it effectively

Vytautas Landsbergis: "Ukrainians are now undergoing a long endurance test"

The first speaker of the Seimas of the independent Lithuania and EMP until recently on the way Europe is changing its perception of Russia, the shifting "center of Europeanness", and why it is crucial for Ukrainians to resist disenchantment

Michael McFaul: Putin believes that time is on his side: that the West will become disinterested and Ukraine will fail with reforms

Ex-US Ambassador to Russia on the “reset policy”, Russia’s “resource curse”, and main threats of Putin’s policy for the West and Ukraine

A Struggle for Peace

The veterans fought for freedom and a better life in Europe. Can that peace and prosperity now endure in the face of so many new challenges?

Alexander Motyl: "Ukraine is important to the US as a counterweight to Russia"

American historian of Ukrainian descent, Rutgers University Professor on Washington's policy towards Kyiv, Ukraine's image, and the perception of Ukrainian politicians in the US

Adrift In Washington

The reasons for American inaction

At an Impasse

The initiative to invite peacekeepers to Donbas seems like a desperate move in the situation when traditional means of deterring Russia's creeping expansion have failed

David Kramer: “We have an obligation to help Ukraine defend itself”

How visible Crimea is a year after annexation internationally, how seriously the threat of its militarization is seen in the West, and why Barack Obama is reluctant to provide effective support to Ukraine

From Cold War to Hot War

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is part of a broader, and more dangerous, confrontation with the West

When the Rules Are Broken

François Heisbourg and Judy Dempsey comment on the leadership of the USA and Germany in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, delivery of weapons to Ukraine and the new world order

Russian Military Bases

around NATO borders and in Central Asia

Taavi Rõivas: “Thanks to reforms, we became members of the EU and experienced economic growth”

The Ukrainian Week spoke to Estonia’s Prime Minister about reforms, business environment they way Estonian investors see it in Ukraine, economic benefits of e-governance and international response to the Russian threat

Vaira Vike-Freiberga: “The most important element for the future of Ukraine is what Ukrainians do themselves”

The Ukrainian Week talked to Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the sixth President of Latvia, about the EU’s strategies towards Ukraine, differences between new and old member-states and ways to counter Russian propaganda

Yuriy Sergeyev: “Ukraine wants to create a coalition for the protection of the interests of our region – Europe”

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

Lobbymocracy

Ukraine does not have adequate support in the West, either in political circles, or among experts. The situation with the mass media and civil society is slightly better

The West: Between Interests and Values

If the West wants to develop freely, it cannot allow the dominance of Russia, which, backward and parasitic, dictates its ineffective rules to the rest of the world.

The Red Thaw in Eastern Europe

After 1989, East European Communists transformed into social-democrats. Those who survived lustration remained in politics at home through the 1990s and early 2000s

Toomas Hendrik Ilves: “We are clearly at the beginning of a period where Russia is a very different partner”

In his interview for The Ukrainian Week, Mr. Ilves draws parallels between transformations of the international order caused by Russia’s actions today and circumstances that encouraged the establishment of NATO and EU over 60 years ago, and between the presence of Russian troops on Ukrainian soil today and Soviet occupation of Estonia

Caution and Restraint. To Be Continued…

Why it would be wrong for Kyiv to expect blanket solidarity from the West

Side Effects

Vladimir Putin’s bet on aggressive chauvinism and revanchism consolidates the West and unnerves satellites. More and more Russians begin to doubt it as well

Russia and Europe: The Splendour of Money and the Misery of Philosophy

Bribing Western intellectuals and exporting Russia’s peculiar ideology have long been a favourite diversion of Russian rulers

Rebecca Harms: European leaders and US President Obama have to be clear that they do not accept the zigzag policy of Mr. Putin

Rebecca Harms, the President of the Greens-European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, is one of EMPs who watch the situation in Ukraine closely. During her latest visit to Ukraine, The Ukrainian Week took a chance to speak to her shortly after her return from Eastern Ukraine.

The Big Illusion of Little Russia

Why Ukrainians still view aggressors as "friends" and "brothers"

Damon Wilson: “Permanent neutrality and “Finland status” are bad ideas for Ukraine’s own interests”

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