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.

Author: Anastasia Opanasenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

On June 12–13, 2026, Kraków is hosting the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language in Poland” — one of the largest international academic forums dedicated to teaching, researching, and promoting the Ukrainian language outside Ukraine.

Prepared by: Myroslav Andriiovych Mykhalchyn, fourth-year student of the Faculty of Law at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” “The United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save it from hell” — Dag Hammarskjöld The modern architecture of collective security, established in the aftermath of World War II, is currently undergoing profound destabilization. Russia’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has catalyzed an existential crisis within the United Nations, exposing the functional incapacity of the Security Council (SC) in the domain of internation…