Aspirations for freedom and justice were often central to its nation-building project, but the history of democracy in contemporary independent Ukraine begins at the end of 1991, when the country ...

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

and quickly emerged as one of the most prominent leaders of the democratic movement. Following the failure of a hard-line coup d’état — and with it, the fall of the Soviet regime — in ...

Despite being a civilian, a military court has sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

He noted that “democracy already flourishes in countries ... observing that the Soviet Union was “not immune to … reality,” and adding, “Any system is inherently unstable that has ...