Amidst a perfect storm of conditions leading to increased gas prices and greater demand, Russia is leveraging its role as a major energy supplier to put pressure on Europe. As Benjamin Schmitt notes below, the crisis has been brewing due to "a colder-than-normal spring, calmer-than-normal summer (leading to a drop in electricity production from EU wind turbines), and an unanticipated jump in global demand (especially from Chinese energy consumers) driven by a faster-than-expected market recovery post-COVID-19."... Read more about Europe's Gas Crisis and Russian Energy Politics: Experts Respond

TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice is in Ukraine for a month to conduct research for her project on internally displaced persons. On August 23, she attended the inaugural summit of the Crimea Platform, during which representatives from around the world gathered to discuss the peninsula and express support for Ukraine's territorial integrity.... Read more about TCUP in Ukraine: Crimea Platform

TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice is in Ukraine for a month to conduct research for her project on internally displaced persons. She'll be sending notes about her activities, starting with reflections on the Crimea Platform summit and Ukraine's Independence Day activities.... Read more about TCUP in Ukraine: Independence Day

March 2021 marks seven years since the illegal occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation. TCUP asked experts about the general sentiment in Ukraine around the issue of Crimea and its annexation, President Zelensky’s potential policy moves toward deoccupation and reintegration, and the role of the Crimean Tatar community in the future.... Read more about What Comes Next for Crimea? Experts Reflect on Seven Years of Occupation

The final panel of the first annual TCUP Conference focused on the issues of displacement and reintegration in Crimea and Donbas.... Read more about TCUP Conference: Day 5

The TCUP Conference continued on Thursday, February 4, 2021, with a panel on Institutions and Reform.... Read more about TCUP Conference: Day 4

The TCUP Conference continued on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, with a keynote lecture by Dr. Francis Fukuyama entitled, “Lessons from the Ukrainian Transition to Democracy.”... Read more about TCUP Conference: Day 3

The TCUP Conference continued on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, with a lively discussion of the role of civil society and mass mobilizations in Ukrainian democracy.... Read more about TCUP Conference: Day 2

The First Annual TCUP Conference kicked off on Monday, February 1, 2021. Organized around the question “Why Is Ukraine a Democracy?,” the first panel addressed the role of history in Ukraine’s democratic development.... Read more about TCUP Conference: Day 1

As part of TCUP’s series on the current Constitutional Court crisis, we are including an interview with Ivanna Kuz, recent graduate of the REECA program at Harvard’s Davis Center, whose research on the High Anti-Corruption Court gives a bigger picture of the challenges of judicial reform in Ukraine.... Read more about Can the High Anti-Corruption Court Fix Ukraine's Corruption Problem? Q&A with REECA Grad Ivanna Kuz

This collection of expert commentary is part of a series on the Constitutional Court crisis. For background information, see Ukraine's Constitutional Court Crisis, Explained and our primer on Ukraine's Judicial Institutions.... Read more about Ukraine's Constitutional Court Crisis: Experts Weigh In

This overview, written by TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice is part of a series on the Constitutional Court crisis. For a primer on the various institutions involved in this discussion, see Ukraine's Judicial Institutions. Check back for original expert comments and an interview about academic research on judicial reform.

High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC): Created in 2018 to prosecute corruption cases, especially those involving political figures. What makes this court distinct is the involvement of the Public Council of International Experts (PICE), a group of non-Ukrainian advisors who can block judicial candidates from serving on the court if there are concerns about a person’s integrity.... Read more about Ukraine’s Judicial Institutions: A Primer 

Guest post by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Former European Energy Security Advisor, U.S. Department of State
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington... Read more about The 2020 U.S. Election Is Here: What Ukraine Can Expect from a Biden or Trump Win

TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice attended the first annual Taras Shevchenko Conference on Ukrainian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, March 6-7, 2020.... Read more about Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Is Committed to Ukraine

On Saturday, January 25, 2020, TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice attended “Activism Rising: Ukraine at a Turning Point,” a conversation between Ukrainian film director and former political prisoner Oleg Sentsov and scholar Nina Khrushcheva in New York City.... Read more about Oleg Sentsov Speaks to New York Audiences

On December 9, 2019, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris for a Normandy Format summit brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The summit was the first meeting of these four parties in three years, a move that Zelensky heralded as already a step in the right direction.... Read more about Normandy Format Summit: HURI Experts Respond

In September, TCUP Director Emily Channell-Justice went to Vinnytsia, Ukraine, for the Borderlands and Contact Zones conference. During the conference, attendees visited the Wehrwolf bunker museum. Here, she describes the museum and reflects on how Ukraine remembers its complicated past.... Read more about Hitler’s Bunker on the Eastern Front: Wehrwolf Museum Reflects Ukraine’s Difficult Historical Position