The British FM is worried about increasing coordination between the YPG and Moscow. He’s right to be.

The current political crisis shows just how weak Ukraine’s government really is—but it also shows just how badly the West has failed Ukraine.

We’re beginning to see a pattern, and it isn’t a pretty one for President Poroshenko.

No, no he’s not.

As the Kremlin fights to keep the issue of Russian soldiers dying on the battlefields of Ukraine a secret at home, it’s resorting to increasingly authoritarian methods.

As the fight heats up in eastern Ukraine, the EU is putting pressure on Kyiv to live up to its Minsk commitments. Instead, Brussels ought to be thinking of ways to help Ukraine’s reform along.

Two dramatic moves by Ukraine’s governments against corruption give one hope that Ukraine may be able to turn the corner.

A tense standoff between the Ukrainian government and a powerful regional governor oligarch over control of state energy assets has begun. The outcome of the standoff could provide the good insight as to whether the Ukrainian state has any chance of success going forward.

Vladimir Putin’s actions in Crimea indicate just how confident he is that he has the West over a barrel. And given how the Europeans are hesitating to impose targeted sanctions on Russia’s kleptocratic elite, his calculations may prove to be correct.

Yesterday’s suicide of Aaron Swartz, 26, one of the founders of Reddit and a passionate activist for Internet causes, has shaken the tech world. By all accounts a brilliant and fiercely idealistic (if somewhat troubled) young man, Swartz had his fingerprints on many of the things we take for granted online today, from the RSS […]