“We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those...
According to the police, up to 12,000 people took part in the “No to Capitulation” march led by the Veteran Brotherhood movement, the European Solidarity-linked NGO “Sprava Hromad,” Democratic Axe political party,...
The statement of reasons contains 176 pages. The judges state that the accused was on Mount Karachun on that tragic day, May 24, 2014, that he could see the Zeus Ceramica factory from his position, and that he had good visual control of...
On 12 October, a Council of the hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church convening in Athens adopted a proposal of its primate, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II, to ratify a previous decision of the Synode of this Church (the...
Further excavation revealed two graves – a larger central burial pit and a smaller one. At first, the archeological team decided to clear the smaller one. It took almost three days. While dusting and cleaning the contours of the pit, the...
Moscow’s efforts to recruit spies perhaps not surprisingly has always attracted more attention than its work to recruit agents of influence, Dmytro Khmelnytskyi says; but there are only a relative handful of the former while there are...
Fourteen hours. This was the duration of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s press marathon on 10 October. During it, the president answered the questions of around 300 journalists. They were divided into groups of seven-ten. The event...
While the protest in Kyiv not unexpectedly attracted the most attention, the fact that Ukrainians came out in more than 30 cities across their country may be more important. On the one hand, and in sharp contrast to Russian protests, it...
Disengagement at Stanytsia Luhanska Three disengagement zones in the Donbas were agreed in late September 2016 by the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE) for the Donbas conflict settlement (TCG). The TCG regularly negotiates...
Atlas Weekend is a Ukrainian music festival held in Kyiv. During its four-year existence, the festival has hosted numerous world-famous musicians including Apocalyptica, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Martin Garrix, Placebo, Kasabian,...
Those in Ukraine and elsewhere who fear that the Steinmeier plan will end by becoming the Putin plan are justified in their concerns as even the most superficial examination of what has happened elsewhere along Russia’s periphery when...
Since 1 October, Ukraine has been in turmoil. “Steinmeier’s formula” is the reason. This proposal for Minsk negotiations called to end the Donbas war voiced by then-German Foreign Minister Steinmeier in 2015 was called back to life...
“Ukraine has withdrawn its troops in Stanytsia Luhanska. Russia has not, and their military forces are still here. Russians are now walking around freely in the gray zone. Moreover, the war is escalating along the entire front line. If...
Zelenskyy claims that his agreeing to the implementation of the “Steinmeier formula” was necessary solely to unblock a meeting in the “Normandy format.” But at the same time, he does not explain to us or to himself...
International correspondents often cite the difficult role objectivity plays while covering terrorism, since the nature and genesis of media coverage is often prone to sensationalism. Yet, if exercised with professionalism and integrity,...
On 7 October 2006, the widely respected Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of Putin’s government and propaganda, was murdered. The courageous Politkovskaya, who was not afraid to speak...
On October, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine accepts “Steinmeier’s formula” which stipulates that the occupied part of the Donbas should be granted a “temporary special status”...
Ukraine is currently playing three chess games on three different chess boards: one related to economy, the second to the war, and the third to justice. These are the key topics on Ukraine’s agenda. The games are being played by three...
Valery Solovey, the former MGIMO professor and current Moscow commentator, says there are seven reasons why the Kremlin almost certainly believes that its policy toward Ukraine is close to achieving strategic success now that Ukrainian...
Radio Donbas. Realii and the Centre for Civil Liberties have teamed up to work on the “Unforgotten” series, recounting the stories of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war who are waiting to return home from their cellars, detention...
On your exchange day, we all watched cars with blacked-out windows and security jeeps leaving Lefortovo Detention Center 2 (SIZO-2) and film crews of governmental TV channels gathering at the entrance to Vnukovo… Tell us about the...
“We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those escorting them to the point where they were...
