Yurii Shcherbak

Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him... “But this is your hour, and the power of darkness”.                    ...

1. FAREWELL TO THE LAST DECADEOn the winter night of December 31, with clinking champagne glasses and countless firework displays, the world bade a light-hearted farewell to the first decade of the 21st century. Dozens of prestigious international periodicals offer varying analyses of the start-up...

How fast time goes by! I can remember, as if it were yesterday — but in fact it was in October 2008 — as we, participants in the traditional 9th Ukrainian-American Roundtable, sat in an imposing hall of the US Congress Library, listening to passionate speeches of the emissaries sent by the two US...

Article One The world will soon mark the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, the most tragic event in human history and one that radically changed the worldwide geopolitical situation. This was a war that greatly surpassed World War I in terms of the number of human (especially...

None of us has ever seen a spring like that of 1989.Adam Michnik Twenty years ago Her Majesty History relentlessly and resolutely invaded the closely-guarded territory of the communist empire and swept like a hurricane over the countries of the so-called Social Camp — Poland, Hungary, East Germany...

Starting from the mid-1990s the world has been discussing the relatively new concept of a “failed state,” which means a dysfunctional state, a state that has failed to develop, a state in ruins. According to the definition of an authoritative political science reference book, a failed state is “A...

The regional office of the Germany-based Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) in Ukraine and Belarus has organized a visit of a group of Ukrainian experts to Berlin to attend the debate “Energy and Foreign Policy after the Gas Crisis.” The group consisted of Hryhorii Perepelytsia,...

Kyiv recently hosted the first international conference “Cooperation for Sustainable Progress,” which was organized by a federation of Green parties in Europe and Asia. Delegates from 18 countries took part in the conference, among them the noted ecologist Prof. Aleksei Yablokov, corresponding...

Ukraine’s relations and prospects of joining the EU and NATO were the subject of recent brainstorming sessions at several international conferences and roundtable discussions: the international forum “Europe-Ukraine” in Wroclaw (Poland) and a series of high-profile events, in particular the...

On Dec. 1, 2006, Ukraine marked an important date in its modern history: the 15 th anniversary of the national referendum that convincingly affirmed the Ukrainians’ will to live in an independent state and the election of Ukraine’s first president Leonid Kravchuk. It would be a great exaggeration...