Ukraine may be rolling back some of the civic gains it made this decade, but it’s hardly ripe for authoritarianism. From openDemocracy.

The good news from Ukraine is that the bad news is not as bad as you might think.

Thousands of fresh Ukrainian high school graduates spend much of their summer trying to cut through a thicket of new university admissions procedures.

On the road to democracy, Kyiv makes a U-turn.

A spirited protest in central Kyiv embodies the ethos of a new, civic Ukraine. From openDemocracy.


To know what kind of president Victor Yanukovych will be, it’s wise to look beyond his campaign pledges.
His former campaign manager portrays Viktor Yanukovych as a man beset by fears and frailties.
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