Texts by UCU authors
Prayer and Protest (CNEWA)
From the front lines, a bishop describes the uprising in Ukraine by Borys Gudziak Last winter, the streets of downtown Kiev became the center of a swirling political and spiritual…
Church and revolution (UNIAN)
In one of his novels, Franz Kafka mentions a priest from Kyiv who stopped the crowd during 1905 revolution by cutting a cross on his palm with a knife… During…
Ukrainian bishop urges Europe to step up sanctions against Russia (Catholic Herald)
By Mark Greaves Bishop Borys Gudziak, head of the department of foreign affairs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has urged the European Union to step up sanctions against Russia…
Putin’s Mythscape (National Review Online)
By George Weigel The unrepentant KGB man is determined to reverse the verdicts of 1989 and ’91. On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had…
Between East and West (America)
Brett McCaw Myroslav Marynovych on the struggle for democracy in Ukraine Myroslav Marynovych is a noted writer, public intellectual and human rights activist in Ukraine. In 1977, Marynovych was arrested…
“Niech to nie będzie laurka”. Na Majdanie miało go nie być. Zginął od kuli snajpera (TVN 24)
“Solczanik zginął”. To były tylko te dwa słowa. Petro przypomina sobie komunikat od przyjaciela. – Nic nie zrozumiałem. Myślałem, że pisze o jakimś polityku. Dopiero po chwili do mnie dotarło….
Orthodoxy, State and Society (First Things)
by George Weigel In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off-the-record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, “They…
Crisis in Ukraine: ‘The Window of Opportunity Is Very Short’ ([email protected])
Events in Ukraine are moving so swiftly these days that it is hard to keep up with the latest developments. On Sunday, Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine and rejoin…
Subculture of soccer fans misunderstood, stigmatized (Kyiv Post)
The most hardcore Ukrainian soccer fans known as “ultras” became the focus of attention during the recent EuroMaidan revolution. The events showed that we indeed know too little about them,…
Trampling of basic rights tolerated in Kazakhstan (Kyiv Post)
On Dec. 16, 2011, the world was roused by news of the shooting of protesters in Zhanaozen, a town in Kazakhstan. Nobody knew where it was, but shooting at a…