Commentaries

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US and Russia still at odds after talks over Ukraine tensions

Russia and US discuss Ukraine frictions and European security at talks in Geneva with no sign the two sides had narrowed their differences.
17 January 2022

Ukrainians wait as Russia faces off with the West

Sometimes it looks a bit like a diplomatic version of "does he take sugar?"
12 January 2022

Zelenskyy and Oligarchs

Olexiy Haran about the standoff between Ukraine’s president and the country’s richest oligarch.
13 December 2021

Turkey's mediation?

Prof. Olexiy Haran offers his analysis on Turkey, Ukraine-Russia relations.
1 December 2021

What's triggered tension between Ukraine and Russia?

Inside Story
30 November 2021

Attacking Stalin is an attack on Russia's past

Eastern Express talks to professor Olexiy Haran from University of Kiev Mohyla Academy about Russian propaganda and rewriting post-war histo...
4 September 2021

Has the World Forgotten Russia's Annexation of Crimea?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has convened a summit in Kiev with representatives from 44 NATO and EU countries to remind the world...
23 August 2021

L’Ukraine ouvre son marché des terres agricoles

Reservations about implementation of the land market reform is shared by Petro Burkovskyi
5 July 2021

Prof. Olexiy Haran on the situation in Belarus

Prof. Haran gives us the latest on the arrest and detainment of Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich, sanctions from the West and Putin' pla...
31 May 2021

The Current Tensions Around Donbas

The Kremlin has doubled its domestic efforts to reconstruct Ukraine as a “grave threat” for Russian security
11 May 2021

Zelensky forced to ‘face reality’ over peace process with Russia

Ukrainian president’s push for talks with Putin last month was rebuffed
5 May 2021

"Moscow tries to destruct Ukraine"

Dr. Olexiy Haran from Democrtaic Initiatives Foundation explains for Brazilian readers why Russia started to aggravate situation in Donbas
25 April 2021