Maksym Mykhailenko

Ukraine’s multi-vector policy has always been criticized. From the geopolitical perspective, Ukraine was doomed to such a policy. Yet, from the historical and cultural perspective, this approach was doomed to never-ending, if not devastating, criticism by the Ukrainians themselves. In any case, the...

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his famous Democracy in America that a newspaper can exist only if reflecting views and concepts shared by a certain community. In this sense, it is invariably a mouthpiece of a certain association whose members form its regular readership. Censorship is one of...

The European choice is gradually becoming a sacral question for Ukraine. Unfortunately, it increasingly resembles the dogmatic slogans of the Soviet leadership, such as “We stand for universal peace,” “Let us implement the decisions of the Nth Party congress,” and so forth. I will note...

I think it is hard to overestimate the symbolic meaning of the Dnipropetrovsk summit, especially the fact that the Ukrainian and Russian presidents met at a time of such political turmoil in Ukraine, the media hysteria in Russia connected especially with NTV saga, and mounting world tensions....