Olha Herasymiuk

With adoption of the resolution on the risks for the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine that have emerged due to the situation now existing in Ukraine’s relations with Russia, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) started the most important discussion that...

This is the most rigid resolution we could expect. Its content and form was welcomed by everyone who cares about Ukraine and Europe. The reason is that the events are taking place in the Maidan, in the heart of Europe, not God knows where, and Ukrainians defend here both their democracy and the...

“I recommend that we vote for visa liberalization, that we do so for the Ukrainian people, not for the Ukrainian government,” said the PACE monitoring rapporteur for Ukraine at a European Parliament session in a clear attempt to spell out a sincere desire to take a closer and unbiased...

Lunch break. I got off the metro train onto the platform to stretch my legs and then went to the Luxembourg Gardens to rest a little on a bench, as many others do, near the fountain and forget for some time about everything that is not connected with real life. A playful waiter brought a coffee...

Seventy two crazy MPs from the parliaments of different European countries were discharged from the Strasbourg hospital a week ago and went home to stay there until January. I am one of them.We were called a group of crazy people and a gray mass of marginals by the head of the Russian delegation in...

We are one month into the year of 2009, thanks goodness. This is a year of the Bull, something we have nearly forgotten with all the hullabaloo over gas. This powerful draft animal was not revered by many on the New Year’s Eve as people joked and argued about gas, this invisible precious substance...

The Day informed about a library with a stock of 50,000 burning down in Hryhory Skovoroda’s native village, destroying a unique record of local history in a place held sacred by many in Ukraine as the place where the great philosopher was born. The flames consumed all the fiction literature,...

It happened several months ago. No one heard anything about it. I didn’t, either, because twenty years separated me from the place where I, as a small girl, would get lost in the thick underbrush of chamomile in damp forest clearings, by the river Mnoha (I was afraid even to dip a hand in the water...