Leonid Kravchuk

I think democracy began in modern Ukraine when politicians with different visions of society’s development were given an opportunity to debate on television. I am referring, first of all, to my debates with the founders of Rukh (Popular Movement of Ukraine — Ed.) in 1989 and to the contested...

The road of independent Ukraine has never been easy, but what matters most is that it has always been peaceful. Tolerance, interethnic accord, and the state’s continuing policy of keeping peace within this country and out are Ukraine’s greatest accomplishments, which have earned it recognition of...

The fourth parliament of independent Ukraine is at work. Already the first plenary sessions are evidence that political rather than legislative issues come first, and that there are more such problems than effective and realistic solutions. Verkhovna Rada has no operating strategy, living...