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EU or Russia? Ukraine Must Choose -
Ukraine is being pulled in two directions -- on the one hand, towards Russia and its so-called Customs Unions, on the other towards the European Union. Time is running out for Kiev...
How Foreign Governments Quietly Lobby America -
Countries from Uzbekistan to Ukraine use a loophole to try to quietly influence the United States. A "foreign agent" by any other name....
Preparing for Russia's Collapse -
A just-published report by Russia’s premier political analyst, Lilia Shevtsova, has important implications for the post-Soviet states in general and Ukraine in particular. Titled...
Why 'The Ukraine' Became Just 'Ukraine' -
Until a few decades ago, Ukraine was almost always referred to as the Ukraine. Then people started dropping the definite article, and now you almost never see it. What gives? The t...
Ukraine's Topless Warriors Head to Paris -
In mid-November, when Inna Shevchenko, 22, Femen's leader in France, and Oksana Shachko, 25, a veteran Femen activist, heard that the militant Catholic organization Institut Civita...
Ukraine's Arms to Syria Set to Grow -
A meeting in Morocco on December 12 by The Friends of Syria representing 100 countries recognized the opposition National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Force as...
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The EU and Ukraine: Hapless, Not Hopeless - FRIDE
The October parliamentary elections have shown that the Ukrainian society is gearing up for change. The Party of Regions’ victory was narrower than expected and marred by pos...
How Modern Vote Rigging Works - Freedom House
Elections have traditionally been interpreted as fair and competitive just as long as they were free of blatant fraud on election day. Modern authoritarians took note. Incre...
Keep an Eye On, But Don't Isolate Ukraine - Tim Judah, Bloomberg
Ukraine this week held a deeply flawed election, in which the main opposition leader was jailed and the biggest gains went to a party of neo-fascists, who appear to have won 10 pe...
Ukrainian President Consolidates Power - Daisy Sindelar, The Atlantic
At a time like this, it's good to have friends. That may be what Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is thinking as he seeks to parlay his party's controversial win in last wee...
Ukraine Disenchanted With European Dream - Der Spiegel
By Monday night it was clear that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions would stay in power even as international observers and the opposition criticized Sunday...
Democracy with Ukrainian Characteristics - Simon Shuster, Time
Boris Kolesnikov, Ukraine’s powerful Deputy Prime Minister, spent the last day of the election season, Oct. 26, nursing a bit of hangover in his office with a pack of Marlboros...
Ukraine's Ugly Elections - Bloomberg
An ex-convict turned president and an ex-prime minister turned convict. A former striker for AC Milan and a world heavyweight boxing champion. The vote playing out this weekend in ...
Time for U.S. to Prod Ukraine - Anna Borshchevskaya, CNN
On Sunday, Ukrainians will head to the polls to elect a new parliament. The elections will be pivotal. Once a promising democracy, Ukraine has become increasingly authoritarian o...
Ukraine's Troubling Trends - H. Clinton & C. Ashton, New York Times
IT has been 21 years since Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union. Since then, Ukrainians have made much progress on reforming and modernizing their country. Ukraine...
Beware of Russia's Hidden Hand - Janusz Bugajski, CS Monitor
A top priority of Russian President Vladimir Putin is the reintegration of former Soviet republics – based on tighter economic links and culminating in a political and securi...
U.S. Needs Ukraine Priorities Straight - Matthew Rojansky, CNN
Last week, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution demanding the immediate release of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and calling for sanctions against officials res...
Ukraine: Pariah or Partner? - John Stackhouse, Globe and Mail
If Ukraine were to turn a corner – if an independent parliament could operate alongside the presidency, if the media and public could voice critical thinking – the country coul...
Ukraine's War of Words - Andrey Kurkov, The Guardian
The politicisation of our language means Ukrainian writers like me who use Russian are under real pressure....
What's at Stake in the Ukrainian Elections - Derek Fraser, National Post
Ukrainians are going to the polls on Oct. 28 to elect members of their parliament, the Verhovna Rada. If the elections were totally free, President Viktor Yanukovych's party, the...
Racism and Xenophobia in Ukraine - Jamestown Foundation
Ukraine, which with Poland co-hosts the Euro 2012 football championship from June 8-July 1, has been lambasted for corruption and racism. Widespread reports have focused on Ukraine...
Europe's Democracy Downturn - Walker & Habdank-Kołaczkowska, EuroVoice
The democratic erosion that has been so visible in Hungary and Ukraine would be less worrying if it were occurring in isolation....
Ukraine Risks Getting Left Behind - Leszek Balcerowicz , Project Syndicate
Why, two decades after communism ended and Ukraine gained its independence, does the country remain mired in economic torpor and an authoritarian politics that has aroused s...
Ukraine, Geopolitics and Miscalculation - Brookings Institution
Two years into his presidency, Viktor Yanukovych's professed foreign policy of balancing Ukraine's relations with the West and Russia appears to lie in shambles. The European Union...
Who Will Rise to the Top in a Leaderless World? - Ian Bremmer, HBR Blog
The old order, call it a U.S.-led G7 world, no longer reflects the true international balance of power. But there is not yet a new order to take its place. That's why global mark...
Putin's Eurasian Aspirations - Sergey Markedonov, The National Interest
Eurasia is crucially important for Russia’s policy not due to its past but primarily because of issues of the present. Can Russia, with its estimated three million ethnic A...
Russia Lays Siege to Ukraine - Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine have met for the first time since Vladimir Putin’s re-election. This is a strange period in bilateral relations: nothing seems to be happ...
Ukraine's Windfall Offers Freedom from Russia - Washington Post
Viktor Yanukovych deserves no reward for his heavy-handed rule as president of Ukraine. His term has brought increasing corruption, a concentration of power in the presidency and...
European Leaders Shun Ukraine - Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
The former prime minister, imprisoned for 'abuse of office', is in the second week of a hunger strike after being beaten by prison guards....
Does Distracted U.S. Care About Ukraine? - Josi & Wirtz, Huffington Post
Her trademark wrap-around braid gone, her body covered in bruises from alleged mistreatment by prison guards, and her spirit seemingly weakened by untreated, debilitating back pai...
Russia's Growing Influence in Ukraine - Jamestown Foundation
The Ukrainian government is negotiating the issue of ruble-denominated government bonds, making the country no longer reliant on IMF assistance. Ukraine’s 2010 IMF assistance...
Democratic Succession, Ukrainian-style - George Jonas, National Post
Did Ms. Tymoshenko sign a bad deal for corrupt reasons in 2009? I've no idea. If she were given a genuine trial by an independent court we might find out, but from the charade th...
Ukraine at Yet Another Crossroads - Amanda Paul, Today's Zaman
Ukraine's geostrategic choice is Europe. Since its independence, Ukraine has aspired to be part of the EU although this desire has not always been followed by actions, nor has it...
Why China Courts Eastern Europe - Stephen Blank, The Diplomat
With tensions with Russia bubbling beneath the surface, China has been keen to build ties with Ukraine and Belarus. They've been happy to reciprocate....
Will 2012 Bring Revolution to Ukraine? - Jamestown Foundation
Surveys and polls show there is widespread popular anger, frustration and contempt for the Viktor Yanukovych administration that has managed to anger many different groups in every...
Letter from a Ukraine Jail - Yulia Tymoshenko, Japan Times
It has been said that there are no atheists in a foxhole. Here, after my show trial and 4½ months in a cell, I have discovered that there are no atheists in prison, either. ...
Can Ukraine Be Saved? - Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books
Few countries have a better case for sovereign government and the rule of law than Ukraine. Even today you can take a short ride from the capital Kiev, as I did a couple of weeks a...
Ukraine's Slide Toward Authoritarianism - Mykola Riabchuck, Eurozine
The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reformist has been perceived as acceptance of a range of repressions. Tough measures are ...
Ukraine's Democratic Backsliding - Steven Pifer, Int'l Herald Tribune
Yanukovich’s domestic repression will leave Ukraine precisely where it did not want to be: in a gray zone between Europe and Russia. Yanukovich may not intend this, but tha...
Will Ukraine Choose Russia or Europe? - James Marson, Time
The former Soviet republic now finds itself at a fork in the road, forced to pick which way to lean to in its relations and style of governance....
EU, Russia Battle for Ukraine - Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
The dramatic endgame has begun in Ukraine. As the Russian and Ukrainian presidents were meeting in Donetsk, the EU withdrew its invitation to Viktor Yanukovych to visit Brussels. ...
Europe Needs to Get Smart About Ukraine - Borut Grgic, Moscow Times
The turmoil that has gripped European-Ukrainian relations following the sentencing ofYulia Tymoshenko risks jeopardizing an important strategic relationship, and both sides stand ...
Poland Shines, Ukraine Sinks - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
In a welcome display of firmness, EU leaders this week disinvited the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from important meetings he was due to have in Brussels today. ...
Ukraine Moves Backward for Russia - M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times
Along the midriff of Eurasia, an engrossing battle of wits may have begun that could phenomenally transform the post-Soviet space. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recen...
The Overzealous Prosecution of Yulia Tymoshenko - Globe and Mail
The prosecution and conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine amount to the criminalization of what may or may not have been mistaken policy by a former prime minister. If a head...
Last Gasp of the GOP Foreign Policy Establishment - Jacob Heilbrunn, FP
The 2012 election may well mark the last gasp of the Republican foreign-policy establishment. But what's more remarkable is that it lasted as long as it did....
A Soviet-style Show Trial in Ukraine - Daily Telegraph
The imprisonment yesterday of Ukraine's former prime minister on flimsy evidence will not further the country's aim to join the European Union....
Yanukovych Blunders With Kafkaesque Trial - Denis MacShane, Kyiv Post
President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to authorize a Kafkaesque trial against his political rival, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is proving to be his most counterproduct...
Poland Looks to Ukraine for Strategic Depth - Stratfor
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich arrived in Poland on Tuesday to meet with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski. The two leaders centered their discussion around Ukrain...
Letter from a Kiev Jail - Yulia Tymoshenko & Hryhoriy Nemyria, WSJ
We beg readers not to accept Mr. Yanukovych's false promises....