All News, Opinion

Ukraine's German chance By Andreas Umland

The issue of an EU membership perspective for Ukraine is central to this young democracy's current foreign relations and future domestic development. At least, this is what many members of Kyiv's political and intellectual elite believe – arguably, for good reasons. The prospect of becoming a fully accepted “member of the European family” was, in the opinion of many in both the West and East, important for the political and economic development of Central European as well as Baltic countries in the 1990s. It was a driving force in the quick transition of these post-totalitarian states into more or less liberal democracies today.
Dec 7, 2009 at 18:03
Their Ukraine The Ukrainian state only benefits those who run it, and not those who live in it.
Dec 3, 2009 at 23:55 | Editorial
Road kill Impunity is still the rule, not the exception, for the political and business elite who regularly run down citizens in their luxury cars.
Dec 3, 2009 at 23:53 | Editorial
Seeking peace, talks with Jewish community in Kyiv Mohammad Zahoor writes: Business disputes can get heated, but resolution is preferable.
Dec 3, 2009 at 23:51 | Mohammad Zahoor
Rich, powerful bleed nation's wealth dry Will Ritter writes: The nation needs to urgently cut loose from the dead weight of subsidies.
Dec 3, 2009 at 23:49 | Will Ritter
If you were starving to death and Nazi soldiers took you prisoner, how would you respond? Jan Czekajewski writes: Demjanjuk case is a propaganda tool.
Dec 3, 2009 at 23:46 | Jan Czekajewski
Vox Populi with Kateryna Grushenko What and who impedes Ukraine's economic growth?
Dec 3, 2009 at 23:44 | Kateryna Grushenko
Opinion: poor wordings of law on border controls results in its violation Poor wording of the law on border controls enables employees of the border service to side-step some regulations, a lawyer of the Astapov Lawyers International Law Group, Kateryna Ustinova, has said.
Dec 3, 2009 at 14:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
London Daily Mail: Stalin murdered 20 million people, including my grandfather Owen Matthews writes:Fifty-six years have passed since Josef Stalin died, unattended by doctors because his closest aides lived in such fear of the Soviet dictator that they dared not even approach his deathbed. But ever since, his ghost, and the ghosts of the 20 million he killed, have refused to lie quiet. Russia is still haunted, and divided, by the memory of this most diabolical of tyrants.
Dec 3, 2009 at 09:24
Irish Independent: If John Demjanjuk had butchered people for the Soviet's Red Army, he would be a free man Kevin Myers writes:How different his plight would have been if he had been a Ukrainian concentration camp guard called John Demjanjuk whose crimes were committed under the Soviet Union. Because there have been no trials of the criminals who murdered millions under Stalin. Read the story here.
Dec 3, 2009 at 09:19