A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and...
Unfortunately, neither the President of Ukraine nor the Presidential Administration has a concrete plan for liberating the occupied territories. Neither does the Prime Minister of Ukraine nor any member of the Cabinet of Ministers of...
On 16 July the law “On provision of the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the State language” came into effect, eliciting the reincarnation of many myths and misinterpretations around Russian speakers in Ukraine. This...
This Wednesday, 17 July, marked the five-year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the death of all 298 people on board. An extensive international investigation – comprising Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on Russia to release Ukrainian citizens illegally sentenced and held in Russian prisons. 458 MPs voted in favor, 80 against, 89 abstained, Ukrainian MP Iryna Gerashchenko reported...
Here is how Vasyl Piddubnyi expresses this idea. Piddubnyi himself is a volunteer fighter, a writer, and editor of the three volume work, A Word About War: Why veteran’s literature? 1. Writing is a form of stress relief, according to...
At a briefing in Ukraine Crisis Media Center on 17 July, Mr. Maiakov told about the course of the investigation into the MH17 case. Since he mentioned that the information on the results of the investigation can be publicized only when it...
On 11 July 2019, the Ukrainian Parliament voted in favor of the Election Code. The main long-awaited change was eliminating corruption involved in the first-past-the-post system and moving totally to a proportional system with open lists....
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
French journalist Paul Gogo, who was in Donbas with William Roguelon (key prosecution witness in the Markiv trial) and who Roguelon phoned during the gunfire and shelling in Sloviansk, called the sentence of the Pavia court “quite...
The Russian language issue Of course, the Ukrainian variety of Russian is different from the varieties existing in Russia. It is much closer to the South-Russian dialect spread in such Russia’s regions as Rostov, Voronezh, and...
Euro-Atlantic integration Ukraine’s future is in the European Union and NATO, representatives of all parties unanimously declared. Ukraine should join the European Union through the implementation of EU standards, believes Ukrainian...
During the hearing, the judge gave defendant Vitaliy Markiv the opportunity to make a final statement. The soldier said that he would not go into more detail because his lawyers had explained everything in previous court hearings. “I am...
President Zelenskyy’s proposal on strengthening lustration provoked mixed reactions both in Ukraine, where it was criticized by party leaders and Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin, and in the West. According to a draft law he...
After 17 unsuccessful attempts, on 11 July the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine finally passed a new Election Code. It significantly changes the current election system. The document comes into force on 1 December 2023, meaning that both the snap...
Today, Ukraine is a poorly governed country. The euphoria triggered by the results of the presidential elections and a “new face” in Ukrainian politics seems to be declining. Instead, there’s a general feeling that the president...
The Magnificent Seven Zelenskyy and Vakarchuk are not the only celebrities opting for a career change: other media personas are trying their luck as political newcomers, too. In Ukraine’s media landscape where access to oligarchic media...
On 7 July, Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, known for his promotion of aggressive Russian propaganda, announced a video-link between the state-owned Russian channel Rossiya-1 and Ukrainian channel NewsOne, comparing its importance with...
“I think it is an exaggeration” In the course of the following day, several Russian and Ukrainian media quoted Ms. Serova’s statements. Some of them questioned if she would, in fact, have been able to follow the trajectory of...
The capitulation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to the Russian Federation has taken place and, unfortunately, “with the active support of many Russian human rights activists, many but happily not all, Yan...
The closer the Ukrainian July parliamentary snap elections are, the more national media start playing brinkmanship. The penetration of Russian influence can be called a trend of the electoral campaign. In particular, it comes through the...
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
