Ihor Losiev

Valerii Chalyi, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the US, has announced that an agreement is being drawn up to hand over two US Island-class patrol boats to Ukraine. According to Chalyi, Ukraine can receive the boats this year and start to deploy them in the Black Sea in 2019. The diplomat said it is a...

I fully agree with Yurii Lutsenko when he says the ongoing anti-terrorism operation (ATO) should have started at the Verkhovna Rada. Indeed, the Communist Party (KPU) and Party of Regions (PoR) factions have turned into a political wing of terrorists. They constantly advocate them, demand cessation...

It’s difficult to say whether the television broadcast that took place on October 27 on the First National Channel was the realization of the ideas of Egor Benkendorf or Valid Arfush, or if, according to the old Soviet tradition, everything was ordered from above. Nevertheless, the telethon...

Ukraine marked the 65th anniversary of the Allied’ victory in the European theater of World War II against the backdrop of an ignominious national defeat – the Kharkiv surrender which poses a real threat to the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Ukraine is going...

Continued from previous issue These policies are implemented even when the mass media formally belong to a Ukrainian proprietor. Suffice it to remember Savik Shuster’s show “Shuster LIVE” on Channel Ukraina, where the audience is being constantly suggested that Ukraine as an integral state is a...

It is quite a challenge to define whose national interests, language, culture, and traditions, are promoted by the modern-day Ukrainian state. Over the 18 years of its existence, the constitutional norms concerning the official status of the Ukrainian language have never been fully implemented. In...

The topic of the guilty and the World War II victims has been discussed for decades. In fact the tragedy is that it is very complicated to draw a line between these two categories. Ukraine, as well as other countries, has a complex and still painful trace of that war. However, the measure of...

In recent days Russia’s top-ranking politicians have been making strident statements to the effect that Ukrainians have an “incorrect” understanding of their own history. These statements require a closer look at their arguments. These Russian political figures believe that the mean reason for...