Dr. Andreas Umland is DAAD Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” a member of the Valdai Discussion Club, and general editor of the book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” (www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html).
Ukraine’s Historic Moment – and How It May Be Lost
Will sophisticated diplomacy and shrewd lobbying make the EU sign an Association Agreement, with Kyiv?…
Is Berlin Prepared to Support a New Democratization in Ukraine?
Germany’s Eastern policies have to adapt to the novel political challenges in the post-Soviet space…
EU-Ukraine Relations after the Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections
After the manipulated elections to Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada in October 2012, Brussels’ relations with Kyiv are in deadlock. Ukraine is not fulfilling the conditions for signing the already initialed Association…
Do Russians Love Their Children Too?
A homophobia campaign linking gays to child molesters as well as a series of “paedophilia” defamations relativize the abuse of minors in Russia …
The Pseudo-Politics of Russia’s Liberals
How many more years will post-Soviet politics be haunted by the Yavlinsky Syndrome?…
Russia’s Spreading Nationalist Infection
Russian officials have been using more ardently than hitherto anti-Western ideas, and some high posts are now occupied by outspoken propagandists of an alleged US-inspired conspiracy against Russia.…
The Ultra-Nationalist Virus in Russia’s White Revolution
Right-wing extremists could undermine the current democratization drive in Moscow…
How to Make Russia Democratic?
Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the "White Revolution" will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts…
The Sources and Risks of Russia’s White Revolution
Russian imperial nationalism and anti-Westernism has been a distraction for Putin & Co who missed the emergence of a domestic challenge, and did not see the crisis of their regime…
The Stillborn Project of a Eurasian Union
At first glance, the idea of a re-integration of the post-Soviet republics may seem sensible. The economies, societies, and populations of the successor republics of the USSR are linked to…
EU-Ukraine relations today: Between high hopes and rising worries
The year 2011 is crucial for the relationship between Ukraine and the European Union: Kyiv and Brussels are negotiating an Association treaty that will include an unprecedented Deep and Comprehensive…
The State and Prospects of the Russia-EU-Ukraine Triangle
This interview was originally published by RIA Novosti in Russia. It has been republished here with permission from the interviewee. What is the current state of relations between Russia, Ukraine…
EU and NATO Policies in Eastern Europe: Contradictory or Complementary?
This article was originally published by RIA Novosti in Russia. It has been republished here with permission from the author. When evaluating the role of various Western organizations in current…
Why Should Ukraine Be Integrated into Europe?
Interview by Olena Tregub, a foreign correspondent for the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN. The Ukrainian and Russian versions of this interview were published by UNIAN, on 18 April 2011. On…
Plea for a New Eastern Europe Policy of the EU
Recent political developments in the three Eastern Slavic states, like the repression of opposition figures in Moscow, Minsk, and Kyiv, have been frustrating. They illustrate once more that the EU’s…
Russia: Nationalism’s Revenge
Since coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has purposefully instrumentalized Russian imperial nostalgia, national pride and ethnocentric thinking for the legitimization of his authoritarian regime. The repercussions of this…
Previewing the EU-Ukraine November 2010 Summit
The Union Leadership Needs to Find a Middle Road between More Effective Critique of, and Continuing Cooperation with, Kyiv's New Leadership…
The Russian Extreme Right and Its Researchers
Over the last 20 years, the small community of researchers of post-Soviet Russian ultra-nationalism has repeatedly become the target of verbal and non-verbal attacks, by their objects of research --…
Ukraine’s Current Constitutional Debate
The current public controversy about what division of power Ukraine should have in the future is overdue. The various political crises of the past fifteen years have amply shown that…
Is Europe Losing Ukraine?
Ukraine’s decision makers have to understand that semi-formal observance of democratic rules and merely rhetorical acceptance of political pluralism will be insufficient to keep the country on track to eventual…
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