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Truthful history Sadly, some deny Ukraine’s biggest tragedy and victory.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:42
Orange evolution Looking back at the last five years: Revolution helped break from past, but Ukraine now needs more evolution.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:38
Demjanjuk saga enters final round Andriy J. Semotiuk writes: With shoddy evidence, a show trial in Germany is not likely to bring justice to this native of Ukraine.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:30 | Andriy J. Semotiuk
Igor Sikorsky: A hero everyone can embrace Ivan Yakovina writes: Today’s Ukraine needs a man like Sikorsky, at least as a model for the country’s citizens to follow.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:25 | Ivan Yakovina
In today’s Ukraine, dissidents are obsolete Yuriy Lukanov writes: Ukrainian heroes are missing, memories are short.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:17 | Yuriy Lukanov
Vox Populi with Kateryna Grushenko Will the presidential elections in Ukraine be fair?
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:12 | Kateryna Grushenko
Orange Revolution: Five years later Dismay remains over unfulfilled promises.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:06
Election fraud in 2004 was extensive, flagrant Orest Deychakiwsky recalls what Ukraine’s Orange Revolution days were like, and what was at stake.
Nov 26, 2009 at 22:00 | Orest Deychakiwsky
Despite leadership failings, nation more mature than five years ago Oleh Rybachuk and Taras Chornovil write: The country needs more responsible citizenry to make the political elite more responsible.
Nov 26, 2009 at 21:54 | Oleh Rybachuk and Taras Chornovil
Corruption, impunity still rule nation five years after revolution Georgiy Gongadze’s widow thinks Ukrainians have lost their way on path to democratic progress.
Nov 26, 2009 at 21:46 | Myroslava Gongadze
EuropeanVoice: Domestic issues to dominate annual EU-Ukraine summit EU remains deaf to talk of membership, but talks on association agreement to continue. The European Union and Ukraine are to hold their annual summit next Friday (Dec. 4) in Kyiv, amid uncertainty over the Ukraine's domestic politics and its energy relations with Russia, which are of crucial importance to the rest of Europe.This will be the EU's first bilateral summit after the Lisbon treaty enters into force on 1 December, but it will still take place in the traditional format, with the rotating presidency – Sweden – representing the whole EU. Read the story here.
Nov 26, 2009 at 18:40
Day paper: Small victory of strategic importance Kostiantyn Matvienko writes: I happened to watch the opening of a park that symbolized victory over builders. It was on Peizazhna Alley in Kyiv’s oldest part, right over the legendary village of Honchari-Kozhumiaky (“Potters and Tanners”), already disfigured by architects and builders, practically at the territory of the National Historical Museum, near the foundations of the Tithe Church, the 400-year-old lime tree of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla, the remnants of Princess Olha’s rotunda, and an ancient rampart of the Prince Kyi era. There are about 300 “hot spots” in Kyiv, where bitter clashes continue between the builders and the Kyivites who defend their parks, children’s playgrounds, woodlands, islands, and river banks. Read the story here.
Nov 24, 2009 at 18:36
Jamestown Foundation opinion: Yatseniuk's foreign policy Taras Kuzio writes:In 2008 presidential candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk was seen as the new face of Ukrainian politics supporting a pro-Western foreign policy; but, this was before Ukrainians and Westerners had seen his program. Since last summer, his election program has positioned Yatseniuk as the candidate supporting an isolationist-nationalist third way, without deference to either Moscow or Brussels and Washington. Read the story here.
Nov 24, 2009 at 08:26
Jamestown Foundation opinion: Moscow backtracks from strategy to bypass Ukraine’s gas transit system Vladimir Socor writes:Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko declared on November 16 that the Nord Stream pipeline on the Baltic seabed would not be used for diverting gas volumes away from Ukraine’s transit pipelines to Europe. In effect, this statement acknowledges that the Nord Stream pipeline, from Russia directly to Germany, is not a Ukraine-bypass project (Interfax, November 16). Read the opinion here.
Nov 24, 2009 at 08:02
Wall Street Journal opinion: Democracy at risk Myroslava Gongadze, widow of slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze, writes that those longing for strong-armed rule may outnumber those who want to preserve their imperfect democracy. Read the opinion here.
Nov 24, 2009 at 07:51