Yaroslav Kovalchuk

Portugal – The snap parliamentary election held on June 5 in Portugal didn’t bring any startling results. As both the experts and the numerous sociological surveys predicted, the centre-right Social Democratic Party won, getting 105 out of 230 seats in the Portuguese parliament. The...

Leading foreign and Ukrainian diplomats, political analysts and scholars recently took part in the conference “Model Ukraine: Quo Vadis?” in Oxford, organized by the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program and the Oxford University Ukrainian Society. The participants of the conference...

Portugal – The Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates resigned on March 23, after failing to pass austerity measures. In his appeal to the nation he declared: “Today the opposition parties deprived the government of any possibility to continue governing the country. Irresponsibility...

The international Ottawa Model Ukraine Conference “The Politics of Education and Elections in Ukraine” was organized by the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP), the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, the Katedra Foundation, and the CUSF. As implied by the...

The participants of the 19th annual Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program have returned to Ukraine, full of positive emotions from their sojourn in Canada and knowledge they acquired while working in Canadian parliament.Two months are not too long a period. They usually pass quickly and without...

Twenty-five Ukrainian students recently arrived in Ottawa to take part in the 2009 Canadian–Ukrainian Parliamentary Program. For two months, they will represent their universities and, to a certain extent, act as official ambassadors of their home country, holding formal meetings with federal MPs,...

On Sept. 8, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada dissolved parliament and called an early federal election. Twenty-two students from various Ukrainian universities, who were selected to take part in the Canadian-Ukrainian Parliamentary Program, have come to Canada to monitor the election...

National frontiers, as a factor of the total delimitation of countries, started becoming obsolete in the 21st century, while retaining their importance only in economic and geopolitical terms. Such trends help expand international cooperation on the intergovernmental level and create numerous...

After Ukraine gained its independence, a considerable number of Ukrainian students, as well as other young people, began to rave about traveling abroad. Everybody had his/her own reasons for this kind of dream. In most cases, young people, finding themselves in dire straits as a result of the mid-...