Oleksandr Striletsky

Those who have had at least a few of their features published know that it is always a pleasure when someone you hold in authority takes note of what you have written, appreciates and assesses it in a well-wishing manner. I felt like this when reading the column by Prof. James Mace titled “Liberal...

On October 3, advocates of Ukraine’s European integration got an unwelcome present on the eve of the Ukraine-EU summit in Yalta. The Ukrtransnafta Company Board approved the decision to accept the proposal of Russia’s TNK-BP Company to lend 360-420,000 tons of Urals class crude oil to fill the...

The Kyiv Pecherska Lavra Monastery of the Caves has marked its 950th anniversary. Among the attendant events observers point to what is described as a success of the Moscow Patriarchate’s diplomacy. Actually, it is described as quite an achievement. Church diplomats arranged for the festivities to...