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Upcoming holidays for politicans in both the Old World and the New prompt a search for new ways to resolve the Donbas conflict. The latest PACE session can be seen as quite successful for the Ukrainian delegation, and NATO continues to support Ukraine in the country’s conflict with Russia.

By its 19th anniversary, the Constitution of the independent Ukraine is seeing its sixth round of amendments. There are dozens of examples of more long-lasting and non-amended fundamental laws in the world. But if one looks more closely, there are also many other Constitutions in the world with even a more dramatic story.

Ukraine tops the list of countries with the most money transfers from migrants living in Europe, 271 MPs supported at first reading the new law on local elections, and the SBU is investigating 4,868 cases involving threats to state security.

The Russian president is in search of himself as a leader of a superpower. The EU and NATO are considering the Russian threat more realistically. And Ukraine gets into difficult negotiations on the restructuring of its national debt. 

In an exclusive interview, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tells UNIAN about the alliance’s concerns about the Kremlin's nuclear rhetoric, international military agreements that are violated by Russia, and about the allies' reaction to Moscow's "sabre-rattling."

The Russian Parliament questions the legitimacy of recognizing the independence of the Baltic states, Latvia witnesses an unusually active Russian military near its borders,  and most of the public in NATO member states don’t think it’s necessary to help their allies if they’re attacked. 

On June 10, the European Parliament passed a resolution stating that Russia is no longer considered the EU’s strategic partner. Meanwhile, Ukraine still has not scrapped its Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with Russia.

The G7 States have reaffirmed their readiness to strengthen sanctions against Russia if there is escalation of the Donbas crisis. Ukraine’s PM and minister of finance saw some success while visiting the United States. And Putin isn’t fighting his addiction to top level manipulation.

Ukraine has signed an agreement with Hungary, taking another step towards diversifying its gas supplies. The document may effectively deprive Gazprom of control over gas transit to the EU, and halt Russian gas supplies to Ukraine in the future. But experts say Gazprom could fight back, and help from the EU might be needed.

The G7 Summit is being held without RPutin, and this impacts Russia's foreign policy. The Kremlin is striving to impose on the global community its own view  of events in the Donbas. And Ukraine is ever more vocal about its Euro-Atlantic choice.

The failed militant attack on Maryinka still leaves hope for a quiet summer in the Donbas. UNIAN asked experts why Russia tried to increase the degree of confrontation.

Peter Vanhecke has spoken in an interview with UNIAN about what it is like to work in conditions of “non-stop war” against the company, political squabbles over it, and also about the demands of one of the shareholders to fire him.

For many years, late May - early June used to be the start of Crimea’s high tourist season. Tourists from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Poland traveled to the peninsula for a seaside holiday. Today, on administrative border checkpoints with the occupied Crimea there is indeed a boom in travel – but in the opposite direction.

The Kremlin once again is using gas to blackmail Ukraine - Gazprom has announced $29 billion in claims to Ukraine’s Naftogaz and threatened to submit this claim to Stockholm arbitration. Mykhaylo Honchar, president of the Strategy XXI Center tells UNIAN why Russia is so hysterical, and how Ukraine should deal with it. 

Ukraine’s president has enacted the new Security Strategy of Ukraine, which was recently adopted at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. The Kremlin continues its Cold War rhetoric without the slightest hint of any ideology. And the West keeps maneuvering around the issue of resolving the Donbas conflict.

The state intends to sell its last asset in power generation industry - a company called Tsentrenergo – to French energy giant Gaz de France. A major foreign player entering Ukraine’s energy market may lead to a global transformation of the industry.

Although the Russia-launched hybrid war has been going on in Ukraine for a year, only now has the Ukrainian parliament got around to cancelling Ukraine’s international agreements in the field of military cooperation with the Russian Federation.

A year ago today, Petro Poroshenko was elected as Ukraine’s president. The parliamentary coalition is becoming more like a worn out car disguised as a new one and sold to an inexperienced buyer by sophisticated hucksters. And Oleh Kuzminykh has returned home from captivity.

Thousands of Crimean Tatars used to gather each year in Crimea on May, 18 to honor the memory of their ancestors, deported  from the peninsula back in1944. Now Russia forbids this.

1 printing house agreed to publish the Nemtsov report on the war in Ukraine triggered off by Russia, the cabinet has made a list of 286 companies for privatization, 374 people were arrested for being in illegal armed groups in the Donbas, and UAH 6 billion in NBU refinancing funds were stolen from four banks.