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Is There Economic Reform in Ukraine?
If you listen to Ukrainians tell it, there’s been absolutely no reform within the last year. Their frustration is understandable—they want the positive effects of major change now—but their perception...
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Ukraine as a Vital Security Interest for Europe
An American official in Brussels recently informed me of a meeting he had with a highly placed European Union diplomat during which the latter “stressed that Ukraine is an ‘almost existential’ issue...
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Russia Expected to Escalate War in Ukraine Soon
That’s what a number of prominent experts think. Andrii Parubii, the vice speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament and former national security adviser, stated on March 27th that there is a “high risk” of a...
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Meet Motorola, Self-Confessed War Criminal of the Donbas
The latest entry into the Donbas enclave’s Pantheon of heroes is one Arsenii Sergeevich Pavlov, a slight 32 year-old Russian from Russia who sports the nom de guerre, Motorola. Why Pavlov chose this...
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Ukraine’s Chess Champion—and Putin
You may not be aware of the fact that the women’s world chess champion is now a 22-year-old Ukrainian, Mariya Muzychuk. A native of Stryi, in the western province of Lviv, Muzychuk won the title on...
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Funding Ukraine's Recovery
Ukraine needs 60–100 billion euros in investment in the next 10 years in order to rebuild its economy and reach the GDP level it had in 2013, according to Gunter Deuber, an analyst at Vienna’s...
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Soviet-Nazi Collaboration and World War II
As May 9th, Victory Day in many post-Soviet states, approaches, decency demands that we celebrate the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s Germany and honor the millions of soldiers and civilians who gave their...
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The State of Ukraine
The following is an interview with Taras Kuzio, a leading expert on Ukraine and post-communist politics.***MOTYL: You’ve just completed a tour of the Ukrainian territories adjoining the Donbas enclave...
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Was Vladimir Putin Born in Georgia?
The answer, according to a recent article in Germany’s highly respected Die Zeit, is maybe. “It seems,” writes correspondent Steffen Dobbert, that “there is an unspoken, and unproven, secret that is...
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Germany Must Lead in Europe
Nothing could be more unlike the Russo-Ukrainian war in the Donbas than Munich’s remarkably well-ordered condition. The desperate desire of Germans to look away from the death and destruction beyond...
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Fighting Corruption in Ukraine
The following is an interview with Bohdan Vitvitsky, a Ukrainian-born corruption expert and former US federal prosecutor and assistant attorney.***MOTYL: You were in the running for the position of...
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Expanding Putin’s Black List
European Union officials are outraged by the Kremlin’s “black list” of European officials denied entry into Russia. The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, called it “unacceptable.”...
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On Donbas Autonomy—Again
Foreign policymakers and analysts intone “autonomy” for the Russian-occupied Donbas enclave with tedious regularity, almost as if they were in possession of some magic formula. One of the latest to...
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Should Kyiv Blockade the Donbas Enclave?
Ever since the Poroshenko Bloc’s leader, Yuri Lutsenko, stated that the “President of Ukraine believes the cancerous tumor should be subjected to a blockade,” Ukrainians have been heatedly debating...
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US-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Lacks Strategy, Partnership
When three influential American Russia experts call for a substantive US-Ukrainian strategic partnership, it’s time to listen.Matthew Rojansky, director of Washington’s prestigious Kennan Institute at...
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Ukraine's Bumpy Road to Normalcy
The most striking thing about Lviv, Kyiv, and a number of small towns and villages I’ve recently visited is their normalcy. Walk down the streets or dirt roads and you’d never think Ukraine’s economy...
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What New Ukrainian Exceptionalism?
Having just lauded Kennan Institute Director Matthew Rojansky and two colleagues for a fine piece on Ukraine’s relationship with the United States, I hate to change my tune and criticize him for a...
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Two Mass Graves: Ukrainians and Jews
I discovered two mass graves in the forest near my mother’s home town in western Ukraine, Peremyshlyany, located 47 kilometers east-southeast of Lviv.The former Przemyślany is also a former shtetl. Its...
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De-Communization, Hannah Arendt, and Ukrainian Nationalism
It’s about 100 days since Ukraine passed its de-communization laws and guess what? The sky hasn’t fallen. The fascists haven’t taken over. Repression hasn’t set in. Which is exactly what those of us...
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Ukraine’s August Blues
August is when most of Europe closes down, as people dash to their country homes or head for resorts. Beaches overflow; fun becomes mandatory. A perfect tan is all that matters.What a wonderful time to...
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