Items tagged with: Post-Soviet era

Dr. Thomas Winkelmann first arrived in Kyiv just weeks before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and has witnessed many of the key events in Ukraine’s modern history

Russia's imperialistic attitude towards independent Ukraine has turned an instinctive ally into an aggrieved adversary - and Vladimir Putin must personally accept much of the responsibility for the collapse of Kremlin influence in Moscow's...

The Kremlin obsession with phantom fascists reflects modern Russia’s failure to create a coherent post-Soviet identity

Russian-speaking Ukrainians have played a key role in defending the country against Russian aggression but the ongoing conflict with the Kremlin continues to cast a long shadow over the future of the Russian language in post-Euromaidan...

For the past quarter of a century, Ukraine’s post-Soviet national identity crisis has been a constant point of political contention and source of social tension. What is the best route to future national cohesion, security, and prosperity?

Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution caught the world’s imagination but failed to deliver politically. However, it is now increasingly clear the protests played a decisive role in changing the geopolitical dynamic of the entire post-Soviet...

Former Estonian FM Marina Kaljurand on Donald Trump, EU sanctions, NATO military spending, and the Russian hybrid war in Ukraine

Estonian Ambassador Gert Antsu on his country's support for Ukrainian e-governance and the challenges of living with the new Russian realities

The Kremlin relies on force because it has no answer to the historic rejection of Russia that began with the fall of the Soviet Union

Canadian academic Subtelny provided millions of post-Soviet Ukrainians with access to the formerly supressed Ukrainian national story and helped lay the foundations for the nation’s growing sense of national identity