Category: Lukian Selskyi

These days, forty two Ukrainian entrepreneurs—owners of small and medium sized businesses selected from almost nine hundred applications—are hard at work on the campus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

More than eleven years have passed since, in St Peter’s Square, the white “doves of peace” released from the hands of the late Pope Francis found themselves in the claws of a crow and a gull. Remember?

In recent days, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has been posting terse Facebook updates about deportations and lifetime bans on entry for “violating U.S. law.” In the context of the horror of a full-scale war, this sounds like the crack of a whip, heralding a severe punitive instruction for Ukrainians who, for the fourth year (and many for the twelfth), have been living in overwhelming stress...

The news about the cessation of Ukrainian-language broadcasting by Voice of America has elicited both painful surprise and anxiety. In the realm of respected international broadcasters, an important beacon has gone dark—one that for many decades carried unbiased information to places where other voices were muted.

This text was originally meant to be written immediately after the meeting between the Presidents of the United States and Ukraine in the Oval Office. At first glance, it seemed like just another routine step —