It is difficult to identify why Maidan took a violent, military turn. Among the main possible reasons we might first note the inability of three opposition leaders (namely Vitaliy Klychko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and Oleh Tyahnybok) to settle on just one Maidan leader, and the absence of any visible, concrete accession to the demands of the protesters by the authorities.
By
Alla Marchenko Sergiy Kurbatov
April 28, 2014
"Euromaidan is an anti-amnesia action of a postcolonial nation aimed against a restored post-Soviet space", posts Lyudmyla Pavlyuk, professor in journalism in Ukraine.
By
Lyudmyla Pavlyuk
January 24, 2014
A message on situation in Ukraine from Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych.
(translated by Vitaly Chernetsky, via Andrij Bondar)
By
Yuri Andrukhovych
January 24, 2014
Maidan 2.0. Letter from the Ukrainian PEN Club, Kyiv January 22 2014.
By
Mykola Riabchuk
January 23, 2014
Maidan 2.0. Letter from Kyiv the 10th of December 2013.
By
Mykola Riabchuk
January 23, 2014
Literary scholar David Williams analyzes Ulrich Seidl’s film Import/Export and criticizes Seidl for using and humiliating amateur actors with the aim of telling a story that ultimately only underscores a stereotypical image of the East: as precisely an object of pleasure for the West.
By
David Williams
January 21, 2014
The 2012 parliamentary election is an important step towards the presidential election of 2015. Certainly Victor Yanukovych plans to be reelected to a second term. His strategy for the upcoming years will be to neutralize possible competitors. It is therefore unlikely that Julia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lursenko will be freed from prison before the presidential election.
By
Arseniy Svynarenko
December 4, 2012
Nationalist and anti-Semitic symbols, racist statements and the making of monkey sounds when black players enter the plan are a few examples of what goes on the football fields in Ukraine and Poland. Racism and intolerance are not exclusive problems for the two countries hosting the football championships, but a shared concern for Europe.
By
Ann-Cathrine Jungar
June 27, 2012
The UEFA EURO 2012 is big business and corruption is rampant and well entrenched in all aspects of Ukrainian political, economic and social life.
By
Lars Johannsen
June 8, 2012
EURO 2012 makes prostitution not just a Ukrainian problem, but an European issue.
By
Yuliya Yurchuk
June 5, 2012