OPINION: Russia was threatened by Ukraine’s emergent democracy. Here’s what that means for the path to peace

As the government continues radical workplace reforms, it wants to seize unions’ prestigious Soviet-era buildings

OPINION: The government’s attempt to take control of the media is anti-democratic and dangerous

Some 30 members of Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade are thought to have been captured. But their families are in the dark

Money for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy

Opinion: Truss leaves behind a divided party trailing in the polls. But there’s one policy area it could seize on

Thirty years ago Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for security assurances. Now, it wants ironclad...

OPINION: Anthony Barnett is wrong – Russia’s invasion does not make America into a defender of democracy

openDemocracy talks to those who’ve fled the front lines, about why many are reluctant to leave

Merging Ukraine’s social insurance fund with the deficit-ridden state pension fund will be a disaster, say trade unions

Have socialists like Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn got their history wrong?

If Alexander Lukashenka continues to support Putin, he may bring direct fighting to his own country

OPINION: NATO, US, Ukraine and Russia should open informal lines of communication to stop war becoming entrenched

The world was talking about Ukraine in the days after the Russian invasion but for this Ukrainian writer, in an...

The occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions offer the president a template of brute, military-style governance

Experts explain the background to Azerbaijan's attack on Armenia’s sovereign territory in the last week

In a poll of civilians in Ukraine’s frontline cities, 67% said they no longer see a ceasefire as feasible

Industrial action at Mine No. 9 in Novovolynsk follows takeover at the top and allegations of corruption

Many activists view the elections as a vote on the war in Ukraine – and a chance to prove a desire for democracy

Missing from most Western accounts is how Gorbachev’s thinking was both socialist and liberal