President Poroshenko has asked for increased presidential powers, which are the opposite of what the Euromaidan protests were about.
What will ‘Defence Minister’ Strelkov do, now that Slovyansk has been lost? And can he rely on Vladimir Putin?
“Three years ago diverse groups of Ukrainian ultras did not have good relations, to put it mildly. Now we have reached a nationwide truce. This was the first time in the Ukrainian fan movement. In many other countries, this has never happened!"
The recent history of Ukraine is a clear example of how not to manage a country’s economy.
President Petro Poroshenko is not an ideal Western-type politician, and certainly not the answer to Maidan's dreams. But could he be the answer to Ukraine’s many problems? на русском языке
Judges, prisoners and drug addicts are all in legal limbo in Crimea because the judicial status of Russia’s new territory is still far from clear.
Who is Igor Strelkov? He has power, but by whose authority?
A new republic, even one – especially one – as uncertain in status as the Donetsk People’s Republic, needs all the trappings of power. But what do they mean? на русском языке
In Ukraine, businessmen are pressured to give financial and political support to the authorities or to testify against political opponents.
People are not yet calling the situation in Eastern Ukraine a ‘civil war,’ but the battle for Donetsk might change that. на русском языке
All in all, the fall of an unpopular, corrupt and ineffective government in Ukraine initiated by pro-EU demonstrators has not helped strengthen European values overall or slowed the decline in the popularity of the EU in the continent as a whole.
