Ukraine in the Eurozine archives

During the last three years, Eurozine has published numerous articles dealing with the Ukraine, with its internal divisions and its relations to its neighbours and to the European Union. A search for “Ukraine” in the Eurozine search enigine results in over 70 hits: from Mykola Riabchuk’s “Ukraine: One State, Two Countries” (an article commented on by Tatiana Zhurzhenko and Roman Szporluk) to Olena Nikolayenko’s report from 2002, a story about a country which for journalists is one the most dangerous places in the world.

See also our compilation the most recent articles on this subject.

A selection of older Eurozine articles on the Ukraine

Mykola Riabchuk
Ukrainian Media: Still “not so free” (en)
In his analysis of the Ukrainian media landscape, Mykola Riabchuk maintains that a situation when people have plenty of rights on paper but cannot employ them in reality has largely persisted in the post-Soviet space. [2001-11-23]

Olena Nikolayenko
The Most Dangerous Place: Journalists in the Ukraine (en)
Last year, Ukraine, along with Russia, became the most dangerous place in the world for journalists to work. [2002-02-21]

Mykola Riabchuk
Ukraine: One State, Two Countries? (en) (de) (hu)
Does the Ukrainian political elite use the country’s deep sense of political ambivalence to stay in power? [2002-09-16]

Tatiana Zhurzhenko
The myth of two Ukraines (en) (de) (hu)
Can the Ukraine overcome the rift between the ‘europeanized’ West and the ‘russified’ East of the country? (A commentary on Mykola Riabchuk’s “Ukraine: One State, two Countries”?) [2002-09-17]

Roman Szporluk
Why Ukrainians are Ukrainians (en) (de) (hu)
What does it take to build a civil society in the Ukraine? (A commentary on Mykola Riabchuk’s “Ukraine: One State, two Countries”?) [2002-09-17]

Alexei Miller
Eastern Europe: Imagining Anew (en) (ru)
Can Ukraine ever become a member of the European Union? [2002-10-28]

Taras Wozniak
East European déjà vu (en)
Why the EU continues to ignore Ukraine’s place in Europe. [2004-06-25]