The Ukrainian School of Political Studies and its graduates have purchased Osnovy Publishing
The publishing house is awaiting upgrades, but in addition to this, new owners promise to republish important books that have been characterising Osnovy Publishing for the past 30 years. Osnovy will return to the subject of specialised publications and issuing world literature, recognised textbooks on philosophy, history, economics, politics, and literary studies, and publishing Ukrainian classics.
New owners of Osnovy Publishing are grateful to Dana Pavlychko, an alumna of the Ukrainian School of Political Studies programme (2017 USPS Alumna), for the new horizons she opened for the publishing house as its owner and leader during the last decade.
On the Osnovy Publishing House
Osnovy Publishing House is a Ukrainian publishing house co-founded in 1992 by Solomiia Pavlychko, a literary critic and publicist, and Bohdan Kravchenko, a political scientist and ex-director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
Immediately after the declaration of independence, Bohdan Kravchenko settled in Ukraine, where he made a significant contribution to the state building. In particular, he founded the Committee on State Building and Local Self-Government within the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which became a hub for shaping a new administrative elite at the dawn of modern Ukrainian statehood.
Osnovy was the first to publish modern European philosophers, high-quality translations of classical literature, and world-level textbooks in Ukrainian.
In particular, translations of Aristotle, Plato, Ovid, and Seneca, and a historical edition of “Europe. A History” (2000) by Norman Davies, “Philosophy of the Theatre” by Les Kurbas, scientific works by John Locke, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, José Ortega y Gasset, and others.
On the Ukrainian School of Political Studies
The Ukrainian School of Political Studies (USPS) is an educational and network project of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives under the auspices of the Council of Europe. It aims to train and unite leaders from different environments who share a desire to develop a strong state of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian School of Political Studies was founded in 2005 as a democratic achievement of the Orange Revolution. The institution has become a centre of civil and political education with many projects in Ukraine, which embody not only studies but also the defence of common values and principles.
Through its activities, the School constantly strives to establish democratic values and preserve Ukrainian cultural, historical, and social heritage.
On the Agency for Legislative Initiatives
The Agency for Legislative Initiatives (ALI) is a leading independent Ukrainian analytical centre operating since 2000. The activities of ALI are primarily aimed at strengthening the institutional capacity of the parliament and government, continuing European and Euro-Atlantic integration, supporting stabilisation and reconstruction of Ukraine to overcome the consequences of aggression by the Russian Federation, monitoring and supporting reforms in the sphere of justice and security, political and civic education.
