Author: Bohdan Nahaylo

Every November, Ukrainians around the world traditionally honor the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the genocidal terror-famine inflicted by the Stalin regime on the Ukrainian people. They also remember the role of the courageous handful of foreign journalists who witnessed and exposed this terrible crime. From the early 1980s into the 1990s, the English...

It has been a busy month for Kyiv in the foreign policy sphere. As if reflecting the seasonal fall weather, developments in this area have been fluctuated from warm to cold and back again. Overall Ukraine has held its own in this variable climate, knowing that colder days lie ahead before warmer weather arrives in...

In Germany, the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) narrowly beat the conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in the federal election held on September 26.

Yes, the latter has lost after 16 years leading the government, and Germany’s long-serving chancellor, Angela Merkel, whose party’s support had been declining for some time, is leaving the helm.

Independent Ukraine in its most modern and sustained incarnation has just turned 30. But now that the celebrations are over, it’s important to pause and take stock.

What do we actually know about the real state of things beneath the opaque, yet distracting, surface of crude politics and still pervasive corruption?  These are unpleasant factors, yet they overshadow the enduring resolute resistance to Russia’s aggression, ongoing complex systemic transformation and the evolving self-identification and aspirations of the state and its people.