On 2 February, the Ukrainian president enacted a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to sanction MP Taras Kozak and his national TV channels ZIK, 112, and NewsOne for five years. Kozak is a legislator from the...
The Kremlin and Ukraine’s oligarchs as allies in making Ukraine fail One of the speakers at that forum, Olena Halushka of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre in Kyiv, said that today, despite achieving “tremendous progress” on its...
Life is tough when the whole world is pitted against you, or when you think that it is. This week, the disinformation reflects this mood, radiated by the pro-Kremlin media. Let’s begin with the coverage of the Davos Forum. According...
On 30 November 2020, Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv was awarded the prestigious Oper! Awards in the category of Best Conductor, founded by the opera magazine Oper! Das Magazin. Hard work both in Ukraine and worldwide is behind the award....
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) declared that it would suspend the Russian delegation’s voting rights. PACE announced that Russia’s...
Born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka in Novohrad-Volynsky, Zhytomyr Oblast in 1871, Lesia suffered immensely from her disease, travelling from spa resorts to sanatoriums in search of relief from the chronic pain caused by bone tuberculosis....
In an interview with Le Temps, Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya says that at present, the Belarusian opposition has “lost the streets” and cannot withstand the force being used by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka but will recover its...
On 23 February, the Primorsky Court of Odesa ruled to imprison Serhiy Sternenko, a civic activist from the south-Ukrainian city and one of the greatest enemies of the local authorities, for 7 years and three months and to seize half of his...
If reading Taras Shevchenko, the iconic Ukrainian serf-turned-national poet of the XIX century, is like striking a match in a dark room filled with explosives, as the life-changing effect of his poetry has been described, then reading...
For the first time in GoCamp’s history, there were volunteers from all the continents, except of course Antarctica. Due to the online format, volunteers from such faraway countries as Jamaica, El Salvador, the Philippines, Zimbabwe,...
Oligarchs and low standards of living: two sides of the same coin One striking feature of modern Ukraine is not just the ongoing influence in public life of such figures as Akhmetov and Kolomoiskyi, but also the resilience of the oligarchy...
One year ago, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy scored a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential elections, his impressive victory was, in no small measure, attributed to his promises to bring peace to Ukraine’s embattled region of...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its...
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