Ze's Covid Clowns
(illustration by Oleh Smal) It’s too bad western journalists who write about Ukraine have difficulty understanding Russian, much less Ukrainian. That ability...
Thug Life
More six years since the start of the revolution of dignity, Ukraine remains a sham democracy. It is a primitive post-soviet feudal autocracy. Democracy here...
Sick of Ze's bullshit
President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged from the current stage of the epidemic as the popular paragon of political sloppiness and goonery. If we enter the...
Ukraine's Human Sacrifice Experiment
(Illustration by Mykhailo Aleksandrov for Mysl) It’s difficult to establish exactly the moment during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ten months as president...
Amateurs Imitate, Professionals Steal
This has been kicking around here for awhile, but having just read Aslund’s fawning blowjob for Saakashvili (that sound you hear is the knees of Atlantic...
Drag Queen on Poppers
The justification for supporting Mikheil Saakashvili’s appointment to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economic reforms is apparently to preserve...
What's That Stuck to Zelensky's Ass?
Ex-public servant Maksym NefyodovA song. It begins with a person speaking is-this-mic-on phrases such as check, check one and testing one two three and...
Law and Disorder
Gosh, thickest Spring. It’s nice right now: Herselves, Balusha and I are swimming backstroke in a big big pool of quiet. And Netflix. The Chornobyl exclusion...
Ukraine's Irredeemable Health Ministry
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and something has gone terribly wrong. The country’s response to the epidemic should probably be managed by...
'Ze' May Call it Quits
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could resign on his own volition, Dnipro native Hennadiy Korban has said. “It seems to me that, maybe in a year, he...
Everything is Not Fine
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and President Volodymyr Zelensky has said government’s response to the pandemic was timely. He’s even made...
Everything is Fine
KYIV. It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s epidemic disaster and my beloved award-winning Kyiv Post reports: Ukraine has not taken the COVID-19 pandemic lightly....
One Year Down Forever
As we pause to reflect on the one-year anniversary of Volodymyr Zelensky’s election victory, it’s helpful to remind ourselves of his close relationship with...
An Epidemic of Stupidity
I disagree with Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky about lots of things. When it comes to Ukraine, he reminds me of Rinat Akhmetov’s spieler,...
Lost Notes
Ukraine’s Ex-Deputy Minister Pavlo Kukhta and Ex-Minister of Economy, Trade and Agriculture Timofiy Mylovanov taking a break after being sacked Two decades...
Ukraine Changes its Algorithm
Two weeks after announcing an algorithm to keep track of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) in Ukraine, Deputy Health...
'Vital Litmus Test'
Legislation to regulate the banking sector is a litmus test in many ways. Ukrainian taxpayers have footed the $20 billion bill for bailing out the country’s...
Iryna the Hack
(Everyone knew Iryna was a hack months before she was promoted to become Ukraine’s top cop. Her predecessor Ruslan Ryaboshapka spilled the beans in a rant...
We're Completely Fucked
President Volodymyr Zelensky gave lip service to the coronavirus threat two months ago, was slow to move and has delivered mixed messages to the nation....
Stepanov: From Gynecology to Gas
Parliament on March 30, 2020 approved the candidacy of Maxym Stepanov for the post of Health Minister of Ukraine, on the second try. Initially, only 217 MPs...
