Pavlo Kovaliov

Until recently, Svoboda [an All-Ukrainian Union, founded in 1991, eventually listed as one of Ukraine’s five major political parties. – Ed.] has been certainly expected to play a big game in the political field. Now few if any expect this party to make a breakthrough. Worse still, many...

Odesa – By commencing an action against his predecessor and the “father” of the entire current political system, President Yanukovych made more than a resolute step, the result of which cannot be predetermined. This case provoked a big wave in Ukrainian politics. First of all because it showed that...

The president of Ukraine has published a list of top priority national projects. The basic principle is based on Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, the source of financing differs essentially: we do not have “oil dollars,” and everything is to be made at the cost of private investors....

Ukraine is rapidly following the footsteps of Asian or Latin American countries. Yanukovych’s constitutional reform envisages coming back to a superpresidential republic, stepping into a post-Soviet reality where most decisions are made by autocrats. In fact, nothing else was to be expected from...

The Party of Regions (PoR) is yielding key posts in the social sector to communists, though not for the sake of their deep love of the Bol­she­vik system. There is no ideological basis behind this, just flirting with the sentiments of voters. It is useless to appeal to the authorities...