Over the past eighteen months, Ukraine’s ability to overcome the destruction and disruption created by Russia’s invasion has been so striking that some outside observers have even questioned the reality of the war. Every so often, video footage of Ukrainians engaged in everyday activities appears on social media accompanied by suggestions that the situation in […]
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HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH: UKRAINE GRANTED EU CANDIDATE STATUS
Over the past three decades of independence, Ukraine’s quest for progress towards future EU membership has come to symbolize the country’s post-Soviet rejection of Russian authoritarianism and embrace of European democratic values
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UKRAINE AT 30: Europe’s last great unfinished nation-building odyssey continues
Today’s Ukraine is increasingly democratic and European but has yet to become prosperous or live up to its huge potential
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Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine obsession could plunge Europe into a major war
The Russian president’s recent essay on the “historical unity” of Russians and Ukrainians lays bare his dangerous imperial delusions and refusal to accept the loss of Ukraine
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UKRAINE AT 30: Maidan’s metamorphosis is the perfect metaphor for Ukraine’s post-Soviet national coming of age
The dramatic reinvention of Kyiv’s central square since 1991 as a place of genuine national importance tells the story of modern Ukraine
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UKRAINE’S MEMORY WARS: What can Ukraine’s experience tell us about statue-toppling and the politics of monuments?
Monuments have played a high-profile role in the memory wars at the heart of a national identity crisis that independent Ukraine has struggled with for much of the post-Soviet period
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COMING SOON: Ukrainian Davos in Kaniv next month seeks to initiate a revolution of values
Ukraine’s annual international economic and humanitarian forum in Kaniv prepares for its second year with big ambitions to take on decades of humanitarian and cultural neglect
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Ukraine: Open Data Pioneer
Ukraine has embraced open data in recent years and has climbed to 17th place internationally in the 2018 Open Data Barometer from 55th position in 2015
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NO EUROPE WITHOUT UKRAINE: Full text of Donald Tusk’s historic address to the Ukrainian parliament
The President of the European Council placed Ukraine at the very heart of the European narrative in a powerful address to mark the fifth anniversary of the country’s 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity
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OPINION: Speaking the Ukrainian language in Ukraine should not be a controversial act
Ukrainian has never enjoyed greater state protection but speakers of the national language still risk encountering casual hostility from segments of modern Ukrainian society