Mykola Siruk

Inna Steinbuka, European Studies masters’ program director at the University of Latvia, recently visited Ukraine. Ms. Steinbuka has the huge experience of holding top EU offices and directly participated in preparations for Latvia’s entry into Euro-Atlantic institutions. We began...

The international conference themed “The Building Integrity Initiative Day for Top-Level Leaders: Building Integrity as a Vector for Change” was held in Kyiv recently.Let us recall that the Building Integrity Initiative came into being as the result of a 2007 conference organized by the...

The American Republican Senator John McCain died aged 81 last weekend; he was well-known not only in the US but throughout the world, and enjoyed great respect because he always defended his principled positions without any fear of calling a spade a spade.It became known last July that McCain...

Mr. Arif Virani, member of the Canadian Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), recently visited Ukraine for the first time. He had talks with the Ombudsman, Minister of Defense, and met with Crimean Tatar leaders Mustafa Jemilev and Refat...

One could hear a lot of interesting opinions at the recent conference “Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine” held in Kyiv by New Europe Center and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In particular, the audience in the Hotel Hyatt’s packed hall could hear...

Ukraine pinned high hopes on the G7 summit which took place in Canada on June 8-9. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, it was to be chaired by Canada, which has tra­di­tio­nally supported this country. And secondly, it was precisely Canadian efforts that saw Ukraine invited...

The Ukrainian film Cyborgs directed by Akhtem Seitablaiev was recently shown in Canberra, Australia. Among those who attended the premiere at one of the Australian capital’s oldest movie theaters, were Australian officials, diplomats, and members of the Ukrainian community. This highest-...

The situation surrounding the construction of Nord Stream 2 clearly demonstrates the duplicitous approaches of the EU, in particular one of the union’s leading countries – Germany. The Baltic States and Poland, as well as Ukraine, have made a lot of statements to the effect...

Sandra Oudkirk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Diplomacy at the US State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources, first visited Ukraine the other day to discuss energy security of Europe as a whole and Ukraine in particular. With the help of the US Embassy, The Day managed to speak to...

This year Ukraine is celebrating Europe Day for the fourth time, and this is an occasion for both celebration and summing up the new stage of our relations with the EU, which started on September 1, 2017. And it was that latter activity that was dealt with at a roundtable themed “Ukraine...