Ukraine Digest: June 11

Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week

Magnus Johansen, Ingrid Sara Grimstad Amundsgård: Wind farms help move Ukraine to energy future

Oleksiy Goncharenko: Putin is the democratic world’s main threat

Timothy Ash: Big Western missteps in Ukraine

AJ Skiera: Ukraine poised for historic land market breakthrough

Group of authors: Pro-Kremlin propaganda in Ukraine changes tone

Kira Rudik: Ukraine must do more to regain the West’s trust

Diane Francis: Biden’s Blunderland

Andrew Todos: Can Shevchenko bring Euro 2020 glory to Ukraine?

Marc Pierini: Joe Biden’s Europe visitAnton Shekhovtsov: The self-unfulfilling prophecy of a ‘dialogue with Russia’

Jo Harper: Poles and Belarusians divided by a common history

Halya Coynash: Russia ‘sentences’ disabled Crimean Tatar to 7 years for a physically impossible crime

From the archives: The Runaways

As an embodiment of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s corruption, evidence of Serhiy Klyuyev’s alleged crimes was known more than a year ago. Yet prosecutors not only moved slowly, they let him get away as Parliament on June 3 finally stripped the lawmaker of his legal immunity from prosecution. Critics say the case – and many others – call into question whether Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk and top law enforcers are even trying to fight corruption. More than 15 months after the end of the EuroMaidan Revolution, the record is dismal in solving criminal cases, from murder to multibillion-dollar financial corruption, of the Yanukovych era.

Read the June 12, 2015 edition