Putin is not going to end the war in Ukraine: Moscow rejects Zelensky’s peace initiatives

Russia does not show a desire to meet the peaceful initiatives of President Zelensky. It was admited by Yuriy Butusov. Below, he presents some of the current Russia – Ukraine war not solved issues. – The initiative of the President…

Aug 7, 2019

The nine aspects of why the Black Sea becomes a “Russian lake”

Events in the Black sea are unfolding at such a speed that traditional foreign policy cannot keep up and requires an urgent careful and creative re-thinking. The analysis made by Andrii Klymenko, associate fellow, Crimea Department, Maidan of Foreign Affairs,…

Aug 7, 2019

Why Ukrainians chooses new faces in politics?

Ukraine parliamentary elections 2019: people are not misled; they do want amateurs to take over the government. I’m reading indignantly confused posts about the Ukrainians’ unreasonable choice and think that their authors simply lack the complexity of thinking. And they…

Jul 26, 2019

Five years ago, blood was required to change power in Ukraine, now – regular elections

That is what freedom of choice looks like. It is not for everyone and not entirely logical; it is chaotic and unpredictable. In 2014, people voted for the idea of defending the country, and in 2019 they voted for the…

Jul 23, 2019

Taste of blood: European diet for the Kremlin beast

Everything that is happening in Europe points to one historical parallel – a run-up to World War II in an aggressor appeasement phase. Today, the world is as if in the summer of 1938, when in September the Munich Agreement…

Jun 30, 2019

PACE welcomes back the Russian delegation with no sanctions

On June 26 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ratified credentials of the Russian delegation imposing no restrictions regardless of the violations of the Council of Europe principles. This reports by the “Yevropeiska Pravda” (European Truth) correspondent…

Jun 26, 2019

Does shelling in Donbas means some kind of loss of some kind of control over mercenaries by Russia?

Appeal to the press office of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine on its latest scandal statement. Dear press office of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine who believes that shelling in Donbas means some kind of loss of some kind of…

Jun 7, 2019

Russia tries to influence the Internatioanl court of Justice

While considering objections in the case brought by Ukraine to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Russia tries to influence the court and make it consider the case on their own terms instead of jurisdiction issues. This was…

Jun 3, 2019

Specialized anti-corruption Prosecutor’s office opens criminal case against Poroshenko

Specialized anti-corruption Prosecutor began to investigate the legitimacy of actions of ex-president Petro Poroshenko. According to the SAP press service, after a meeting between Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office Nazar Kholodnytsky and former owner of Energomerezha Dmytro Kriuchkov,…

May 29, 2019

Highest court backs Czech hotelier’s response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea

The hotel owner who introduced the rule shortly after the annexation of Crimea five years ago went through a series of court trials to finally get the decision by the highest court issued in his support. “Crimea is Ukraine” is…

May 4, 2019

Zelenskiy’s “digital state”: from business to blockchain for voting

Mykhailo Fedorov, the director of Vladimir Zelenskiy’s digital campaign, is dreaming to develop a “digital state” so that current processes can be carried out without papers and queuing. He spoke about such plans of the Zelenskiy’s team in his interview…

May 3, 2019

Zelenskiy officially declared president by CEC: new challenges

Volodymyr Zelenskiy officially declared president by Election Commission. And actually from this moment, he becomes President elect – newly-elected president. Formally, it is only now that foreign leaders should have started to congratulate him (but who cares about the protocol…

Apr 30, 2019

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