Comedic buffoonery no longer marks the dividing line between satire and news. It is now the starting point for...

The city of Kamianske, once the home of a Soviet-era uranium processing facility, must deal with the millions of...

Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson is known for its agricultural produce. But out of season, life is hard. RU

Since 2014, people living in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions have had limited voting rights in both national...

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The Novomedia forum in Kyiv offered an up-close look at the communications strategies of internationally-connected...

Working in tandem, Ukraine’s ruling groups are creating an election cycle that will only benefit themselves. RU

A Ukrainian church with Philaret as Patriarch is more likely to end up as a cheaply disguised religious cover for a...

What nourishes us also destroys us: this old saying holds true not only for food, but also politics.

At the 2017 World Forum for Democracy, Latvian MP Boriss Cilevičs discusses minority rights in the EU, the war in...

Contemporary public policy is no longer able to rely on representative democracy. To stay legitimate and fulfil...

Frontline activists, including women who use their topless bodies as political statements, are gathering in London...

We're living in a new era of proxy warfare, where multiple powers fund local proxies with disastrous consequences....

The rising star of Ukrainian politics tells openDemocracy that deep-rooted corruption is the greatest threat to the...

Understanding the economic roots of rebellion in eastern Ukraine suggests that the resolution to the crisis must...

An effective second generation human security policy that would actually improve everyday security, both in conflict...

The Chernobyl disaster of April, 26, 1986, in Ukraine, is considered the worst nuclear accident in history together...

For everybody who knows a bit about the EU, the nationwide, expensive and low-turnout Dutch plebiscite on this...