Andrii Okara

In Russia, the formula of “Ukrainian betrayal” — being disloyal to Moscow — boils down to three names: Mazepa, Petliura, and Bandera, almost like those good old slogans: Peace, Labor, May!, Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality!, or Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite! All...

Dear Mr. Tabachnyk: We have never met, so I don’t think you have any idea about who I am or what I do. I, on the contrary, have closely followed your career for quite some time. Frankly, back in the 1990s I wished I were in your shoes. I wanted to make a president of Ukraine from nothing, from low-...

This is the third time in a row that the key question of the Ukrainian post-election political process and inter-clan intrigues is how to get rid of Yulia Tymoshenko, just like in 2005 and 2006. How can she be squeezed out of the government system and kept from occupying the prime minister’s post?...