News archive on the topic "Gritsak"

For the first time since 1991, Ukraine now has a chance to get rid of the Soviet legacy. Historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov) Yaroslav Gritsak said this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview published by the Kiev magazine New Time. “I always remember and remind at every opportunity that independence in Ukraine arose, among other things, thanks to the participation of Donbass, and active participation...

There are no opposition political forces in Russia whose coming to power would suit Ukraine. Historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov) Yaroslav Gritsak stated this in an interview published by the Kiev magazine “Novoe Vremya”, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t believe in any [good] scenarios for Russia. Everything will no longer be good for Russia. The shortest…

The West has clung to Ukraine so much because it is afraid that after its borders are changed, this will entail the collapse of the borders of European states. Historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov) Yaroslav Gritsak stated this on the Internet channel “Factory of News”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. According to Gritsak, the borders should not change, and therefore Ukraine should forget...

The Russians are trying to restore Great Russia, which will be an alternative to the current world order. Ukraine is fighting with the West to deprive Russia of its great power status and nuclear weapons. Professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov) Yaroslav Gritsak said this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The root of the problem is not Putin, communism, which is a manifestation of the old Russian disease, but...

The United States is trying to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to go to war against Ukraine. Yaroslav Gritsak, a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov), writes about this in an author’s column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “Novoe Vremya,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Washington is playing to raise the stakes. Hence the American statements about an almost inevitable war between Russia and Ukraine, the publication of maps of the offensive of Russian troops and...

Those accusing Ukrainians of the Bandera cult do not want to notice that today he is no longer like Hitler and Mussolini. Professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov) Yaroslav Gritsak writes about this in an author’s column on the pages of the Kiev magazine “New Time”, who drew attention to the poster carried in the front row by the participants in the march in honor of Stepan Bandera in Kyiv. "On him…

Ukraine is moving at full speed towards authoritarianism, as evidenced by the latest events around Babyn Yar. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that Yaroslav Gritsak, a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov), writes in the Kiev magazine Novoye Vremya. He noted that during the last visit of the President of Israel to Kyiv and the meeting of the delegation at the Mariinsky Palace, there was a gross violation of diplomatic protocol.…

If in other parts of Ukraine people from rural regions in cities assimilated into Russian culture, then in Lviv they managed to Ukrainize this locality. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that Yaroslav Gritsak, a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lvov), writes in the Kiev magazine Novoye Vremya. He notes that he lives in Lvov, but he himself comes from a village. "In the rural...

 At the next elections, Galicia may well vote for the current President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky. The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this in an author’s column published by the Kyiv magazine “New Time”, Lviv historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic Institute Yaroslav Gritsak writes. He said that in the presidential elections two years ago he voted in Kharkov, where he gave lectures. “It was interesting to watch people. For…

The Maidan in Kyiv represented yet another clash between the West and Russia. The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this in an author’s column published by the Kyiv magazine “New Time”, Lviv historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic Institute Yaroslav Gritsak writes. “Euromaidan took place on a geopolitically important borderland, where again - and for the umpteenth time - there is a clash between Moscow and the West. Russian military aggression was planned long before...

Relations between the heads of competing law enforcement agencies in Ukraine are so tense that fists are often used. Thus, at one of the meetings at the SBU, the head of the department from the time of Petro Poroshenko, Vasily Gritsak, in front of witnesses, hit the face of the prosecutor general of that period, Viktor Shokin, in the presence of subordinates and deputies of the Verkhovna Rada. About this in an interview with a TV presenter...

The SBU was behind the organization of a number of deliberate murders in Ukraine, and was involved in the murder of Pavel Sheremet. Lawyer Andrei Portnov stated this on the NEWSONE TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I believe that the SBU of Gritsak-Poroshenko was behind the organization of a number of deliberate murders and violence in the country. I believe that the SBU under Poroshenko was a criminal organization. This...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky must somehow respond to a tip from the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov that the nationalists accused of blowing up the car of journalist Pavel Sheremet could be “protected” by the SBU. Ukrainian lawyer Tatyana Montyan spoke about this on the PolitWera channel via video link from Germany, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They’re not even stupid, they’re crazy. They are for all this...

The SBU officers really tried to “clean up” the traces of the murderers of journalist Pavel Sheremet and “leaked” information about the progress of the investigation. Such data was published by lawyer Andrei Portnov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the case of Pavel Sheremet, employees of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood (Department T of the SBU) during the reign of Vasily Gritsak seized video camera servers in the area of ​​​​the journalist’s explosion and later returned them to their owners...