On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church...
“A delegation from Norway has arrived in Crimea for an official visit. The delegation includes representatives of different political parties.” This information was recently spread across Russian media with varying degrees of...
The second “DNR ex-minister” surrenders to Ukraine On 25 September, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that SBU Counter Intelligence Department managed to transfer a former “DNR minister of agrarian policy and...
A declaration by the Romanian defense minister that his country is concerned by the increased Russian presence the Black Sea is encouraging Kyiv which welcomes such a statement by a senior official of a NATO country as an indication that...
On 14 October 2018, a relatively peaceful march to commemorate the UPA, Ukraine’s WWII-era Insurgent Army, was held in Kyiv, where roughly 15,000 nationalists, according to the police, marched through the Ukrainian capital. Apart...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Bartholomew’s decision to reclaim Ukraine as dominion, thus depriving the Moscow Patriarchate of its claims...
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence of its use by the Kremlin in its wars in Ukraine and Syria and the company’s increasing use of criminals rather...
All of the Kremlin’s recent actions — from a pension reform it didn’t have to carry out now to the replacement of governors who while loyal failed to perform adequately — is part of a smoke screen behind which the Russian...
In his extended first meeting with Mikhail Babich, Putin’s new ambassador to Minsk, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka made it very clear that his country “was, is and will remain sovereign and does not plan to become part of...
Archbishop Klyment of Simferopol and Crimea says that once autocephaly is granted to Ukraine, the Russian occupation forces on the Ukrainian peninsula are likely to dramatically increase the pressure they have used against his bishopric...
The Ukrainian patrol ship “Hryhoriy Kuropiatnykov” slowly leaves the port of Odesa. Aboard the vessel, there are more people than usual: military prosecutors, representatives of the Ukrainian oil and gas sector, and an assault group of...
A high percentage of Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) and non-IDPs in Ukraine suffer from mental health issues but only few of them receive psychological help On World Mental Health Day 10th of October it is important to address the...
In the last four years many things have changed in Ukraine – it experienced a de-facto war with Russia, reforms (both successful and not really), the birth of civil society. But the political landscape has barely changed. Ukrainians...
As the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) gathered for their autumn session in Strasbourg, all eyes were on the vote for the resolution “Strengthening the decision-making process of the Parliamentary Assembly...
There are three reasons why the Russian Federation is unlikely to fall apart in the near future, Ukrainian political analyst Vitaly Portnikov says. First among them is that while Russia hasn’t been able to establish a contemporary...
The 6th depot occupies about 682,6 ha, the area of the technical premises is 402 ha. The General Staff reported that the commander of the facility informed about an explosion at the technical premises at 03:30. The State Service for...
The EU considers Russia’s case against the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov a violation of international law and elementary standards of justice and expects his release along will all illegally detained Ukrainian citizens in Russia...
A young woman walks up to a man in a subway train and pours liquid over him from a plastic bottle. The scene is repeated a number of times with different men who all react with anger and bewilderment. We are told that they are being...
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a resolution stating that the 1932-33 terror famine in Ukraine was “a planned action of Stalin’s totalitarian regime which was...
Tailored for disinformation heavy users: Conspiracy theories on Biological Weapons Just to highlight some examples: 2016: The US is constructing secret biological labs in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine to attack Russia. 2017:...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
