– January: Is Ukraine Free? (Freedom House rankings)

– February: MI6, Art and Freedoms (“A Year with MI6”)

– March: Brilliant British Business in Ukraine (British Business Days)

– March: Down Syndrome: “Let Us In!” (Down Syndrome in the UK and Ukraine)

– April: What I think about Ukraine (Oxford speech)

– May: Life lessons from Deep Purple (British rockers in Kyiv)

– June: The teenage traffic victim (road safety and the traffic police)

– July: Justice and politics in Ukraine (trials of opposition leaders)

– August: Ukraine: hand grenades in the polygon (military co-operation)

– September: Tymoshenko in Yalta (trials of opposition leaders)

– October: Back to the Café in Shanghai (Business climate)

– December: Donetsk, Ukraine and the EU (Donetsk speech)

These aren’t necessarily my best or most important blogs, but I hope they illustrate some themes of 2011 and the scope of the embassy’s work.

We’re still working to update all our links after our move to a new web-platform; but do feel free to navigate from these blogs to others on similar subjects, or indeed read the whole collection.

Happy New Year!

Leigh Turner has been the British Ambassador to Ukraine since June 2008. You can read all his blog entries at blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/turnerenglish (in English) or blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/turner/ (Ukrainian)