Yaryna Yasynewych, Program Director of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation, participated as a panelist in the XIV Annual Summit of the US-Ukraine Working Group (Ukraine in Wartime. Year Five), held on June 17 in Washington. She served as an expert on a panel dedicated to the state of democracy and social cohesion in Ukraine under conditions of full-scale war.

The modern system of international law, which emerged after World War II, is now in a state of deep crisis. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — now in its fourth year in 2026 — the United Nations has demonstrated its inability to fulfill the core function enshrined in its Charter: maintaining international peace and security. This problem is most visible in the UN Security Council, where Russia abuses its veto power to block any binding resolutions concerning its own aggression. For Ukraine, this is not merely a question of justice, but of the state’s very surviva…

An international discussion titled “A Post-Colonial Conflict? Russia, Imperialism, and the War against Ukraine” was held at the University of Vienna, dedicated to examining the Russo-Ukrainian war in the broader context of imperialism, colonialism, and historical memory.

Kharchenko Kyrylo Vitaliyovych, National University “Odesa Law Academy,” Faculty of Judicial and International Law As of 2026, the international community finds itself in a situation that the founders of the United Nations in 1945 would have preferred to consider impossible. The organization created “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” has become a platform where the aggressor is not merely present but dictates terms through the right of veto.

As part of the «Roots and Wings: A History That Unites» program, participants in training based on Natalia Omelchuk’s «Memories in Boxes» methodology met with Ihor Kharchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, Candidate of Historical Sciences, and Chief Consultant to the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation. The meeting took place at the Foundation’s office and became a separate part of the educational program for history teachers.

Twenty-five history teachers from across Ukraine spent three days in Kyiv mastering the “Memory Boxes” methodology through the “Introduction to History” course for fifth-grade students. The training was initiated and organized by the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation.

Dmytro Fialkovskyi Educational and Research Institute of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine has sharpened the debate not only about the responsibility of the aggressor state, but also about the effectiveness of global governance institutions themselves. Calls for Russia’s expulsion from the UN as a form of institutional sanction are heard with increasing frequency in the public sphere. Yet such demands often ignore the fundamental legal constraints built into the very architecture of the organization. Formally…

The question of whether Russia can be expelled from the United Nations following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine has long outgrown the status of a political slogan. It concerns not only the punishment of an aggressor state, but also the credibility of the entire international security system. If a state violates the fundamental principles of the UN Charter, occupies the territory of another state, and simultaneously remains a permanent member of the Security Council, a question arises: has the UN itself become hostage to its own architecture? In my view, expelling Russia from the UN throug…

In Kraków, participants discussed how to stop the linguistic assimilation of Ukrainian children in Europe. In Poland, Ukrainian can already be chosen as a subject on the national school-leaving exam, and the number of schools teaching it as a second foreign language continues to grow.