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Published in: oDRUkraine: blackmail and bluffUnder the direction of the new Polish presidency, the EU has dangled a huge integration carrot in front of Ukraine’s...
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Published in: oDRYuri Lutsenko: views from a prison cellOn the eve of the new year, Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko was arrested by special forces as he...
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Published in: oDRDispatch from DonetskThe heart of the Ukrainian East, Donetsk owes its existence to the industrialising zeal of the Soviet Union. In...
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Published in: oDRUkraine oil rig deal: fat cats getting fatter?President Yanukovych makes a show of trying to root out corruption, but a recent government deal to buy an oil rig,...
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Published in: oDR"Political technology": why is it alive and flourishing in the former USSR?Since the 1990s, post-Soviet elites have used manipulation, corruption and the government machine to maintain their...
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Published in: oDRUkrainian politics on trialAhead of parliamentary elections in 2012, Ukrainian President Yanukovych has initiated a number of high-profile...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: Europe its brightest hopeIn an interview with journalist Olena Tregub, political scientist Andreas Umland argues that Ukrainian integration...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: pain, but no grainUkraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe, but something very strange is going on in the grain market, writes...
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Published in: oDRChernobyl: the first monthTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing that gripped him...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: a crisis of self-identityUkrainian identity has historically been defined in opposition to Russia, but an anti-Russian agenda is unable to...
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Published in: oDRViktor Yanukovych, Pandora’s Box and the Moscow OrchestraIt is clear Viktor Yanukovych's recent moves against his predecessor Leonid Kuchma were driven by not by justice,...
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Published in: oDRKuchma: warring elites or justice at last?The re-opening of the investigation into the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze is motivated more by...
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Published in: oDRKevlar Kuchma and the bullet of justiceGeorgii Gongadze, inconvenient Ukrainian journalist, died in horrible circumstance nearly 11 years ago. His...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt and the colour revolutionsThe fate of the popular insurgencies in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the early-mid 2000s could offer...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s mysterious exit from the arms tradeHaving spent six years preparing for a lucrative deal supplying arms to Iraq, Ukraine seems to be about to breach...
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Published in: oDRUkrainian nationalism: are Russian strategies at work?President Yanukovych has awakened the spirit of nationalism in Ukraine, writes Roman Kabachiy. In all probability,...
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Published in: oDRUkraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle?Ukrainian politics has until recently been divided between two camps: the pro-Western democrats (recently...
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Published in: oDRFreedom of expression in Ukraine: a disappearing commodity?
Subsidised articles and broadcasts spin the official line and the erosion of media freedom is gathering speed in...
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Published in: oDRLies and Innuendos: What happens when you take on the Russian far rightResearching the Russian nationalistic right is a game of high stakes. Last year, I found out the hard way, writes...
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Published in: HomeThe struggle after people power winsWith peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election....
