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UKRAINE’S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: LITTLE TO SATISFY REGIONS PARTY
David Marples With 99.6% of the votes counted, Ukraine’s election results are very similar to those of the exit polls released on October 28. In terms of popular vote, Regions lead with 30.03%, with...
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Basic Instinct
Mykola Riabchuk The Party of Regions was set to win the parliamentary elections for a number of reasons. First of all, it is not only a party but also a powerful political machine that has merged...
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The 2012 Holodomor Anniversary
David Marples November 24 is the commemorative date for the famine in Ukraine, which devastated its agricultural regions in 1932-33. For some time now it has been known as the Holodomor (death by...
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HAVING THE CAKE AND EATING IT TOO
Mykola Riabchuk On the eve of President Vikto Yanukovych’s visit to Moscow on December 19, many Ukrainian experts were confident that the game was over and the beleaguered Ukrainian president would...
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The Prison on Lonts’kyi Street: Memory Dialogue or Memory Monologue?
Uilleam Blacker L’viv’s wartime history is complex, and demands sensitivity and an understanding that victimhood and guilt are not always exclusive categories. The history of the site of the prison on...
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“Family” on the March
Mykola Riabchuk Ukraine has entered the New Year with a new government approved in the parliament by the Party of Regions, their Communist satellites, and a dozen “independents” engaged by both hook...
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UKRAINE: AN UNSEEN IMBROGLIO?
David Marples and Myroslava Uniat The administration of President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov appears to be in confusion. On the one hand it faces a large bill from Russia’s...
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Triumph of the Cargo Cult
Mykola Riabchuk Six years ago, I published an article under the (perhaps too optimistic) title “Farewell to the Cargo Cult” (Berliner Zeitung, 13 April 2007). It was about the ongoing protests in Kyiv...
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The Viktors Go to Brussels
David Marples and Myroslava Uniat After the February 25 16th EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels, Ukraine’s chances of signing an Association Agreement later this year in Vilnius appeared as uncertain as...
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Where Optimists and Pessimists Meet
Mykola Riabchuk Three years ago, when Viktor Yanukovych was narrowly winning elections over Yulia Tymoshenko, very few people predicted future developments that would result in the full usurpation of...
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Canned Democracy
Halya Coynash It was a bad week for democracy in Ukraine with formal democratic processes as close to the real thing as canned laughter on a TV show to genuine mirth. The door to Europe, and...
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To Ukraine, with Love [or] Russia’s Comedy Show
Mykola Riabchuk Last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin set another record, answering citizens’ questions in a televised Q & A session for five hours. The show was staged well, so that no...
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Ukraine’s Bar Under Fire
Halya Coynash Ukrainian advocates have become the latest targets in a concentrated drive over the last three years to create a malleable and dependent judiciary. The measures being applied to remove...
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Open Forum–Announcement
Over the next month and starting on June 1, we will be featuring a series of articles on the topic of “How Ukrainian History Should be Debated,” using as a thread, Taras Kuzio’s article of May 19, 2013...
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Taras Kuzio’s Review of the “Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism” Workshop
Anton Shekhovtsov In his recent article, Taras Kuzio, reviewing the workshop “Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism: Entangled Histories,” (http://www.taraskuzio.net/Files/Kuzio_Columbia.pdf) has made...
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Assessing the Prolog Legacy
John-Paul Himka As Taras Kuzio mentions in his critique of Per Anders Rudling’s paper (http://www.taraskuzio.net/Files/Kuzio_Columbia.pdf), I cooperated with Prolog. This was in the 1970s and 1980s. I...
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Limits of Tolerance
Halya Coynash I wasn’t at the workshop “Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism: Entangled Histories” and would not be joining this discussion were it not for Taras Kuzio’s comments about Volodymr Viatrovych...
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On Ukrainian Studies There and Here (Concerning the conference in New York...
Andriy Portnov The conference “Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism: Entangled Histories,” organized by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, took place on April 22-23. About a month later, it...
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On the Columbia Symposium
Jared McBride I had the privilege of participating in the symposium on Ukrainian and Russian nationalism held at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University this past April. The comments that follow...
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On Pluralism, Free Expression, and Intellectual Honesty
Johan Dietsch In his review of the workshop “Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism: Entangled Histories,” Taras Kuzio concludes that “the workshop failed in its objective of becoming a scholarly discussion...
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