Yuri Polakiwsky

Oligarchism is an anachronism. It not only retards economic growth, but prevents Ukraine from blossoming into a modern and effective state.

As Ukrainians were vacationing this July, a legal farce of Gogolian proportions was being staged in a regional court in Baryshivka, Kyiv.

This new generation of leadership has rejected the psychological and emotional ties to Russia held by post-independent Ukraine.