Fears grow for Ukrainian activist Maksym Butkevych
At the end of June 2022 Ukraine’s civic sector and media were rocked by a painful discovery that one of the most prominent human rights defenders, Maksym Butkevych, was… Read more »
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‘Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationalism’: Russia in Crimea – when history rhymes
Russia’s first Crimean war sounds a lot like Ukraine today, NPR’s Greg Myre notes. “There are very distinct parallels. And I think Putin has probably overstretched himself in the same… Read more »
Ukraine’s information warriors: Why Kyiv dominates the messaging war
The hacking collective Anonymous has launched a global digital army – the #OpRussia cyber offensive – to counter Kremlin disinformation ops by sending more than 5 million text messages to… Read more »
How Ukraine became Eastern Europe’s ‘vibrant’ democratic success
When the Ukrainian autocrat Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia after a popular uprising in 2014, thousands of citizens poured into Mezhyhirya, his 340-acre estate on the outskirts of Kiev, Michelle… Read more »
Will a comic actor become Ukraine’s next President?
It seems that, on March 31, Ukraine once again received a chance to accelerate its transformation, notes Brookings analyst Sergey Aleksashenko. Ukraine hosted the first round of presidential elections, with 39… Read more »
Pro-Putin ‘realists’ distort western perceptions of Ukraine?
Portraying Ukraine as unstable and on the verge of greater instability has been raised by realist scholars since the early 1990s and continues to dominate much of the pro-Putin western… Read more »
Putin’s ‘masterclass in despotism’ threatens Ukraine’s fragile democracy
A Russian court has ordered several of the Ukrainian sailors who were captured by Russian coast-guard forces during a confrontation at sea off Crimea to be held in custody for… Read more »
Ukrainian anti-corruption activist, Kateryna Handziuk, dies from acid attack
The prominent Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handziuk died on Saturday, The New York Times reports, several months after she was attacked with a liter of concentrated sulfuric acid. “Those who… Read more »
Ukraine is ‘at the forefront’ of broader struggle for liberal democracy
Ukraine’s victory over authoritarianism matters for Europe, says Stanford University’s Francis Fukuyama. The country “is really at the forefront of a broad struggle for liberal democracy with various populists and… Read more »
‘Oligarch-infested kleptocracy’? Ukraine’s corruption undermining democratic prospects
By pumping so much money through the hands of Ukrainian officials and businessmen — often the same people — the surge in military spending has held back efforts to… Read more »