This article is available only in Ukrainian and Russian

This article is available only in Ukrainian and Russian

This article is available only in Ukrainian and Russian

This article is available only in Ukrainian and Russian

A “Landmark” Museum for Ukraine

In a rare interview, Victor Pinchuk tells us about his plans to build a new contemporary art space in Kiev

Trickling memory

Kiev, September 28. The sun-drenched park, the hilly country. The grandmothers are kneeling before their grandchildren, young couples are sitting on the benches, there are empty vodka bottles in the bushes and the suburbs in the background – this is Babiy Yar in Kyiv.

Yes, we know*

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Viktor’s dilemma. A country caught precariously between east and west

“I FEEL the weight of history,” said Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, at the Yalta European Strategy forum (set up by Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch). The conference took place in the Livadia palace, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin decided the fate of Europe in February 1945. Yet Ukraine’s situation as a swing state also prompted historic reflections. Twenty years after the Soviet collapse, the country faces choices that will determine both the shape of Europe and its own sovereignty.

Volatility high as Yanukovych heads to Moscow for more tense talks on gas

YALTA - President Viktor Yanukovych flies to Moscow on Sept. 24 for pivotal talks with his Moscow counterpart in the hopes of securing cheaper natural gas prices for an ailing domestic economy that is heavily fueled by Russian imports.

Kiev se fâche avec les Russes et les Vingt-Sept (in French)

Le président Viktor Ianoukovitch vient de perdre simultanément la bataille du gaz avec Moscou et le soutien de l’Union européenne à cause notamment de l’incarcération de l’ex-première ministre Ioulia Timochenko. Le pays s’isole de plus en plus