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ARTICLE | BATTLE FOR BRUSSELS: Russia is still overshadowing Ukraine as both countries fight for favor in the EU capital
Ukraine cannot take continued EU attention for granted as a resurgent Russia reasserts itself in Brussels and the political focus shifts towards upcoming European elections
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ARTICLE | US and EU Need to Take on Crimea Sanction Sneaks
Despite a comprehensive sanctions regime established by Western governments barring foreign investment in Crimea, many foreign companies nonetheless maintain operations there. Recent reports reveal that a number of companies such as Visa, MasterCard, Volkswagen, Auchan, Metro Cash & Carry, DHL, and Adidas are still willing to continue business as usual despite the reputational risk.
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ARTICLE | Japan’s sanctions policy vis-à-vis Russia: Implications for Western sanctions unity
Showing solidarity with G7 countries, Japan imposed sanctions on Russia, albeit reluctantly. The Ukraine crisis (Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of Eastern Ukraine) occurred amidst Japan’s efforts to reinvigorate Japan-Russia relations in hopes of resolving the territorial dispute.
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ARTICLE | Reinventing EU Neighbourhood Policy as a Development Exercise: The Case of Post-Euromaidan Ukraine
How did the European Union respond to the Ukraine crisis? Maryna Rabinovych considers the EU’s approach as a development exercise and suggests how its policy can be improved in the nearby future. The article was originally published at Crossroads Europe. By UDI Global Community Manager Maryna Rabinovych. The 2013 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, followed… Read more »
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ARTICLE | The Strange Unreality of Life During Eastern Ukraine’s Forgotten War
It has been more than four years since the war in Ukraine began, and nothing spectacular is happening anymore. The frontline is static and life around it is pretty normal—or so it seems. People in conflict zones get used to danger.
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VIDEO | Is Donbas really a ‘Russian’ place in Ukraine?
Russian state propaganda wants you to believe that the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas is populated by ethnic Russians and is culturally and historically closer to Russia than Ukraine. This false narrative is a key factor in the war in the eastern Ukraine, where Russia and its proxies fight against Ukrainian government forces, pretending they… Read more »
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ARTICLE | Throughout emerging Europe, civil society is more important than ever
Now the civil society, as far as it will be willing to enter politics at all, will fight the majority and will be forced to admit itself to be what it has been for a long time, i.e. the minority. This is a new and unusual situation.
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ARTICLE | A quarter-century of independent Ukraine. Dimensions of transformation
The article was originally published at Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich. On 24 August 1991, the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR proclaimed independence, and on 1 December the same year, the Ukrainian people ratified that proclamation in a referendum. The new Ukrainian state had some very important assets, such as the peaceful path that led to… Read more »
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NEWS| Ukraine mid-term report 2016-2018 (Year 1) | Open Government Partnership
UDI Associate Dmytro Khutkyy has published its year-long OGP mid-term report. It presents the assessment of 13 government commitments on access to information, public accountability, civic participation, tech & innovation between December 2016-September 2017 in Ukraine. Here you can download the report.
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ARTICLE | Ukraine’s ‘European Rampart’ Risks Getting Lost In The Trenches
The war in eastern Ukraine is in its fifth year, with no end in sight. More than 10,000 people have been killed and a peace deal known as the Minsk II accord has failed to stick.
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VIDEO | Interview with vice-speaker of Verkhovna Rada Oksana Syroyid
Here vice-speaker of Verkhovna Rada is telling her experience of being a first woman on this position. She is sharing her ideas about Ukrainian attitude towards powerful women and advising how to reach social acceptance of female politicians in her country.
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ARTICLE | Honest History: Saying ‘the Ukraine’ is more than a mistake
In the case of Ukraine, a unitary state, using ‘the’ is inappropriate and incorrect. The continued use of the definite article in front of the name of an independent state — Ukraine — is therefore an indirect (although often unintentional) denial of statehood.
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