Kolomoisky and the Holding Company: Combination of the Two
The idea that the Ukrainian runaway oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky, is planning to regain control of the nationalized PrivatBank was in the air for some time...
The world’s response to russia’s aggression has been largely inadequate
Since February 2014, russia has been waging an undeclared and unprovoked war on its peaceful neighbor Ukraine. After establishing control of Crimea through its subversive...
Quenching Fire with Gasoline. Flawed Terminology Will Not Resolve the russia-Ukraine Сonflict
Since late 2013, Ukraine’s contentious political environment has received many labels: riot, revolution, coup, invasion, civil war. Unfortunately, the use of a particular label often...
Why Accepting russia’s Terminology Wouldn’t Help Resolve the russia-Ukraine Сonflict
Five years after Euromaidan and the “russian spring” in Ukraine, russian narratives about the “civil war in Ukraine” have become salient in the media again,...
The West must learn from Ukraine’s experience of dealing with russian provocateurs
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others”, goes a famous line from Otto von Bismarckm...
Trip to parallel realities with Newsweek journalist reporting on Ukraine
Before the New Year, in the American magazine Newsweek, journalist Jason Lemon scared readers with Bandera, Petliura and the blossoming of ultra-nationalism in Ukraine, writes MediaSapiens. Jason...
Living the American Dream in Riga, russia
“Americans Who Have Fled Their Country Tell About Life in russia.” This was the title of a news story aired last week by russia’s state-controlled NTV, writes...
10 reasons why chief editor of Kyiv Post is not after objectivity
In his latest op-ed piece “Reasons why Poroshenko will win & reasons why he will lose” the chief editor of the Kyiv Post Brian Bonner...
Yulia Tymoshenko: A ghost of Ukraine’s past
In advance of the upcoming March 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine, there has been a recent spate of articles about why presidential hopeful Yulia Tymoshenko...