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Ukraine’s Yatseniuk Survives Confidence Vote
President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine listens as his prime minister, Arseniy Yatseniuk, makes a speech in parliament in Kiev, December 2, 2014 (Press Service of the President of Ukraine/Palinchak...
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Ukraine Parties to Form New Government
President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk attend a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in Kiev, November 4, 2014 (Press Service of the President of...
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Tymoshenko Throws Doubt on Ukraine Deal
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is seen in Kiev, August 28, 2014 (Flickr/Yulia Tymoshenko) Attempts to form a new governing coalition in Ukraine were derailed at the last minute on...
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Dutch Referendum Proxy for Attitudes to EU, Russia
Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, campaigns for the EU association agreement with Ukraine in Utrecht, March 20 (Sebastiaan ter Burg) Few of the Dutch voters who will be...
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Dutch Reject Ukraine Treaty in Referendum
A woman votes in provincial elections at a polling station in Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 18, 2015 (Sebastiaan ter Burg) 61 percent of Dutch voters rejected an association agreement with Ukraine in...
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As Yatseniuk Resigns, Blame Shifts to Poroshenko
President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine attends a World War II memorial ceremony, June 22, 2015 (Press Service of the President of Ukraine/Mikhail Palinchak) Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk...
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Groisman’s Elevation Does Not Bode Well for Ukraine
Michel Lebrun, president of the European Committee of the Regions, listens to Ukrainian politician Volodimir Groisman in Brussels, October 8, 2014 (Open Days) Ukraine’s parliament confirmed Volodimir...
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Ukraine Is Better Off Cutting the Donbas Loose
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe observe damage in the area of Donetsk, Ukraine, May 27 (OSCE/Evgeniy Maloletka) We haven’t heard much from the Donbas recently, but...
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How Culture Keeps the Russians and Ukrainians Steps Away from War
Russian president Vladimir Putin observes a military parade in Moscow, May 9 (Presidential Press and Information Office) The Ukrainian civil war has been easy enough to fall off the world radar; with...
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Rutte In Bind as Parties Balk at Endorsing Treaty Fudge
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte meets with other European leaders in Brussels, March 16 (European Council) Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte failed to convince other parties on Friday to support his...
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Rutte Persuades EU Leaders to Rule Out Membership for Ukraine
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte arrives for a meeting with other European leaders in Brussels, February 12, 2015 (European Council) Other European leaders budged to pressure from the Netherlands’ Mark...
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Ukraine Might Be Better Off If “Little Russia” Did Secede
Military vehicles of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic are seen in eastern Ukraine, May 30, 2015 (Wikimedia Commons/Mstyslav Chernov) Separatists in the southeast of Ukraine have declared a...
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Why the West Is Willing to Overlook Corruption in Ukraine
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is seen in Kiev, November 21, 2014 (Press Service of the President of Ukraine/Palinchak Michael) After the bungled arrest of Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president...
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Fetishizing Victimhood: From Poland to America
Jarosław Kaczyński, Beata Szydło and Mateusz Morawiecki, the leaders of Poland’s Law and Justice party, attend a memorial in Kraków, April 18 (PiS) Poland’s ruling nationalist party has coined the...
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Three Challenges for Ukraine’s Sitcom President
Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky (Official Website) In Ukraine, a sitcom is turning into reality as Volodymyr Zelensky becomes the sixth president in the country’s post-Soviet...
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Breakthrough Unlikely at Normandy Four Meeting
Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Emmanuel Macron of France meet outside the Palace of Versailles, May 29, 2017 (Elysée) For the first time in three years, the “Normandy Four” are due to meet in...
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Russian-Ukrainian Gas Deal is a Trilateral Victory
Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and Volodymyr Zelensky, the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine, attend a summit in Paris, December 9, 2019 (Bundesregierung) Russia and...
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Don’t Fall for Putin’s Propaganda About Ukraine
Russian president Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Voronezh, August 5, 2014 (Kremlin) With Russia possibly on the verge of escalating the Donbas War, it’s worth repudiating Vladimir Putin’s...
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Finlandization Is Not an Option for Ukraine
Motherland Monument in Kiev, Ukraine, December 20, 2018 (Unsplash/Rostislav Artov) Since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War almost eight years ago, self-proclaimed realists in the West have...
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Putin Invades Ukraine. How Far Will He Go?
Russian T-72 tanks conduct military exercises in Chebarkul, April 24, 2017 (Russian Ministry of Defense) Russia has invaded Ukraine from three sides, attacking from Belarus in the north, its own...
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