Natalia Vikulina

“Sexual exploitation has become a huge global phenomenon adversely affecting both women and children. We cannot wait anymore — contemporary slavery ought to be eradicated immediately, and not only individual organizations but all countries should join their efforts in this cause. Men and women...

European Parliament members still cherish the hope that Ukraine will some day join the European Union, while European Commission and EU Council bureaucrats are refraining from this kind of forecast. This conclusion may be drawn from comments by participants of an EP conference devoted to Ukraine. “...

The European Union is still expecting that Kyiv will implement the necessary reforms and make headway on the road to Europe. These were the assurances that Brussels gave to Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov. But EU officials reminded him that Orange Revolution euphoria has evaporated and it...

The European Parliament Committee for Relations with Ukraine has held its first meeting in Brussels, appointing Dr. Marek Siwec, former chief of the Polish National Security Bureau, as its chairman. His first deputy is British Conservative Charles Tannock, who is known in European institutions for...

The International Federation of Journalists presented the book Dying to Tell a Story in Brussels, commemorating journalists killed in the line of duty, among them the Ukrainian Reuters cameraman Taras Protsiuk. The book is meant to remind the world that the journalists need a better protection...

How to spiritually revive Ukraine and how the West can help in this dominated the talks Liubomyr Cardinal Huzar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, held with EU high officials, as well as of his speech at the New Europe-New Ukraine conference. “I see that Western Europe, despite all...

From now on, Europe has a kind of textbook for combating human trafficking: a European Parliament conference has approved the Brussels Declaration with recommendations about how to counter the export of women and children for purposes of prostitution. The document calls for the cooperation of law...

The idea of establishing a natural gas transit international consortium, agreed upon in Saint Petersburg by Leonid Kuchma, Vladimir Putin, and Gerhard Schroeder, has for the first time received a positive political appraisal from the European Union. Addressing the conference, The Development of...

George Robertson, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said the proposal of Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Volodymyr Shkidchenko, on deepening Ukraine-NATO relations is “quite a promising plan.” The plan revealed at a Ukraine-NATO Commission session on the level of defense...

The Day: Ukrainian-NATO relations have been somewhat dampened by the Ukrainian military supplies to Macedonia. In addition, Western and Ukrainian media have alleged the Ukrainian leadership’s involvement with arms sales to Iraq. How would you comment on this? Y. M.: What you’ve just mentioned...