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Ukraine has risen in global rankings of generosity, securing second place in the 2022 World Giving Index by the Charities Aid Foundation, with a remarkable climb of 13 spots.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer. Zelenskyy said in response: “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation, who described Zelenskyy as upbeat.

This article, written by Bohdan Shandor, attorney, and published in the "Ukrainian Weekly", was recommended to me by my American friend, the writer of Ukrainian origine, Jaroslaw Martyniuk*. It seems to me worthy, indeed, to be reproduced on our strategic information portal "Narodnyi Ohladach" for the relevance of the author's arguments in the context of the American presidential election of November 2020.

Ukrainian hosts seize the opportunity to underline country’s European credentials and polish international image. May 2017 is likely to go down in history as a landmark month in the epic odyssey of Ukraine’s post-Soviet European integration.

Head of National Crime Agency unit says Russian officials will not say if money entering UK is from proceeds of crime.

Trump’s core global strategy is intended to destroy any illusions in Moscow that Russia is a peer competitor of Washington’s. A Trump administration is going to be four years of hell for Russia

Нis election was legitimate, and his inauguration is inevitable. All of us have a duty to oppose Mr. Trump when he is wrong, but also to remain open to supporting him when he and the Republican-majority Congress make worthy proposals. One would be tax reform.

Report illuminates extent to which US schools are becoming more segregated, with more than 60% of schools with high levels of poor students racially divided. Despite the supreme court’s 1954 landmark decision that US schools must be desegregated, Detroit’s school system remained effectively segregated.

Speaking shortly after Mr Medvedev, Jens Stoltenberg, Nato secretary-general, accused Russia of “destabilising the European security order” and said the Kremlin was using its nuclear arsenal to bully neighbours in a way that would not have been countenanced even during the cold war.

Many had hoped that real work on reforms would begin after local elections last autumn. Mr Yatsenyuk has focused on saving his job, despite approval ratings in single digits.

The European Union will either manage to get migration under control this year or it will collapse, Prime Minister Robert Fico wrote in an article published on Tuesday. Leftist Fico has long held a tough anti-immigration stance and made tackling the flow of refugees the main platform of his campaign for Slovakia's March 5 parliamentary election.

The recently relieved Igor Strelkov represents an ultra-conservative challenge to Russia's president.