External debts and war have pushed Kiev to the brink while the Caribbean island is suffering because of terms of trade engagement with the US.

While some Western countries are pushing for an international tribunal to punish those whom they have already deemed responsible for the MH17 plane crash, there are still questions remaining for which the investigation is apparently reluctant to search for answers, a whole year after the tragedy.

A year has passed since the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, but are we a step closer to finding out the truth about the hideous tragedy?

The Right Sector nationalist movement has been actively used by the Ukrainian government during its offensive against militia forces in the east. The war in Donbass can be ended only when illegal armed groups, especially the Right Sector, are disbanded, Andrej Hunko, a Bundestag member from the Left Party, thinks.

The U.S. Congress recently adopted an amendment that ostensibly forbid US advisors now training the Ukrainian army and National Guard from training members of the Azov Battalion.

Samantha Power’s delusions notwithstanding, due to the inordinate presence of non-democratic elements and outside the Maidan government, ‘Ukrainian democracy’ remains a distant dream. We learned from the shortcomings of early ‘transitology’ in the 1990s that free and fair elections do not a democracy make.

Politicians and cameras will converge on Srebrenica this weekend and talk endlessly of “genocide.” Not only is that an inappropriate description of the tragic events in 1995, its misuse has resulted in many more “humanitarian” deaths worldwide.

News reels with daring American soldiers, the underwriters of the global democracy, striking at the heart of yet another impeding threat, are aired day in day out by the world media.

Ukrainian-Canadian journalist and researcher Halyna Mokrushyna takes a closer look at a major public address delivered by Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and finds surprising inconsistencies in what was supposed to be a vision of the country's place in the world.

In the dead of the night, alleged Russian flags appeared in the streets of Kiev alongside Ukrainian ones, causing much uproar on social media.

The new US-Russian Cold War could be far more dangerous than the preceding 40-year conflict, Stephen F. Cohen stresses, noting that Obama's policy of isolating Russia has facilitated the development of a multi-polar world order.