Serhii Hrabovsky

Valerii Chalyi, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the US, has announced that an agreement is being drawn up to hand over two US Island-class patrol boats to Ukraine. According to Chalyi, Ukraine can receive the boats this year and start to deploy them in the Black Sea in 2019. The diplomat said it is a...

On the opening day of the soccer World Cup, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (known by the Russian acronym VTsIOM) unveiled a survey of the main features of the image of the Russian people as perceived by the Russians themselves. One could mark up to five such features out of...

The world history of the last hundred years, that is, the era of totalitarian and neo-totalitarian regimes, has moved in zigzags, circles, and ellipses which seem strange to the outside observer. In fact, it has had a clear immanent logic with its own rules and algorithms. For example, when the...

In my view, neither a total condemnation of the Koliivshchyna rebellion and its participants as “cutthroats,” “bandits,” and “killers” nor a no less total heroization of the rebels (“kolii”) as “fighters for freedom of the Ukrainian nation...

Elon Musk did it. On February 6, his company SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful launch vehicle. Musk’s personal sports car, Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin Starman at the wheel was put into an intermediate circumterrestrial and then...

Recently, more and more Russian liberals (as they call themselves) are trying to help Ukrainians know themselves. Some of them are attempting to explain to Ukrainians what democracy is, staying behind in Moscow. Among them is, for example, Ksenya Sobchak who gave a lecture to President Petro...

These days the media carries any number of features dedicated to the centennial of the Russian and Ukrainian revolutions (the difference between them rates a different story). Some of these features are informative and others very interesting. Small wonder, considering that the topic remains...

At last, we have got what is now trendy to call “a signal.” Moreover, it is a very serious and loud one as well. This is not some boorish words coming from Vladimir Zhirinovsky or Eduard Limonov. This is a thought-out presentation delivered by a renowned scholar who describes what he...

A momentous event is set to occur on December 22, 2016. Today, the Constitutional Court (CC) will examine the e-declaration’s conformity with the Constitution of Ukraine. The petition requesting the court to deem certain provisions of the Law “On E-Declaration” to be...

Who has been and is still writing the history of Ukraine? Their name is legion. Earlier, it was Moscow that laid claim to being the monopolist, but now, in addition to Putin and Zhirinovsky, just about everyone has got down to this business: the Polish parliament, the president of Israel, and,...