Sentences with phrase «ukrainian civil society»

The Ukrainian leaders with whom I'm in regular contact give the post-Maidan government grades ranging from B - minus to C - minus; they give Ukrainian civil society an A, for both its steadfastness and its patience amidst sluggish reform, Russian aggression, and a massive refugee crisis.

More importantly, it wanted to play a key role in building Ukrainian civil society.

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Drawing together Ukrainians of all ages and backgrounds — old women on puny state pensions and tech - savvy teenagers still in high school, university intellectuals and street-wise factory workers, Ukrainian - speakers and Russian - speakers — the Maidan soon became a self - organizing civil society.

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents.

But the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches did face a historic fork - in - the - road: civil society, or the state?

But the evidence to date suggests that more than a few Ukrainian Orthodox leaders and believers have chosen to stand with civil society, rejecting the Patriarchate of Moscow's support for Putin's Great Russian nationalism.