For decades, world leaders bowed their heads at war memorials across Europe and solemnly proclaimed: “Never again.” The time has come to prove those were not empty words. Russia has unleashed war in Europe out […]
09.03.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Fear for loved ones and friends, fear for the future, fear for the country, fear of an untimely, unjust death have been brought to our home by a crazy shorty. There is also the fear […]
07.03.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The grey-haired man with a hunting rifle who guards the entrance to the village from strangers at night is an older brother or father to each of us. "There have been worse times…" What's worse […]
02.03.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
We are talking to military experts about the first experience of the war. It's the fourth day of the war with Russia. The agenda changes with lightning speed, several times a day, however, certainly not […]
28.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukraine Crisis Media Centre hosted a briefing, "Analysis of human rights violations in occupied Crimea in 2021," organised by the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre (CTRC). According to the organisation, Russian security forces conducted 53 searches; […]
23.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 1 February, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to enact the decision of the National Security and Defence Council on the "Action Plan of the Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine," endorsed in August 2021. […]
21.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2021, Ukraine moved down one spot in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and now ranks 122nd out of 180 countries on the CPI list. What is behind this assessment, should we worry about it, and what […]
16.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The scenario, which Washington strived to avoid, happened. China and Russia have begun active rapprochement. There is bad news for those claiming that China will now swallow Russia up. This is not expected yet. The great […]
14.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
On the one hand, the German government still stubbornly refuses to supply weapons to Ukraine for self-defence against Russian aggression, although this right is sacred under Article 51 of the UN Charter. At the same […]
13.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Recently, there have been many apocalyptic and crude texts about how the situation in Ukraine will develop further. Unfortunately, most of them are limited to retelling already known, or often fictional or far-fetched facts. We […]
09.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Eleven members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party tabled a draft resolution "On the statement of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation "On the address […]
07.02.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Everyone has heard about the rows surrounding the construction and certification of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This project embodies the Kremlin's economic and political expansion in the north. However, it is not the only […]
31.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
In their report "Forecast 2022," the experts of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future identified five crisis trends that will be particularly acute and determine the situation in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk […]
26.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The last week of diplomatic activities proved the strength and unity of Europe against the background of Russian ultimatums. The Kremlin did not get what it wanted. This is not surprising, given the illegitimate and […]
24.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Last year, Russian authorities continued the crackdown on rights and freedoms. Ahead of the elections in the country, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service added fuel to the flame, saying that Russia's pensioners became even […]
19.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Most Russians were looking forward to 2021. And this was not surprising. The pandemic completely changed the usual order and complicated the already difficult lives of millions of people. The poisoning of Navalny, which nearly […]
17.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The experts of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI) covered numerous cases of violations of freedom of speech in Ukraine in 2021. Of them, 145 cases involved physical aggression against journalists. For comparison: in 2020, IMI […]
12.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Security diplomacy is taking precedence over economic diplomacy. This is probably the key idea from the latest nationwide poll commissioned by the New Europe Center. Although Ukrainians see the course towards the EU as a […]
10.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Forecast 2022 report by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future was presented within the framework of the 3rd Alumni Forum of the Serhiy Nyzhny Kyiv School of Public Administration. The Forecast identifies four scenarios for developments in […]
05.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
This year has seen much work and also many achievements. I believe that the main accomplishment is the approval of comprehensive Ukraine's Foreign Policy Strategy for the first time in 30 years of independence. Why is this […]
30.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak