In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women....
Uncertain statements regarding the cooperation with the IMF and the need to cooperate It’s common for all states to have periods of financial accumulations and then generous spendings for various social programs. However, in the case of...
A new poll shows that 48.8 percent of Ukrainians identify with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine while only 14.2 percent say they are followers of the Moscow Patriarchate Church in Ukraine. 16.3 percent say they’re Orthodox without...
Independent media is one of the most important components of democracy, especially during the election period, when the journalists are called to help voters make the right choice. However, that is not how things work in Ukraine. For many...
In the recent past, Ukraine has never had to express such a demand. Any telephone conversations between the President of Russia, the French President and the Federal Chancellor of Germany were discussed directly with the President of...
Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Stanislav Klykh has started a hunger strike in a Russian prison, according to Tatiana Shchur, a Russian human rights defender. “Today, Stanislav Klykh’s mother called me and told me...
Over the past five years, we, the undersigned, members of civil society organizations, have been actively defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and national interests in global information space and counteracting the Russian information war....
According to the Constitution, the Ukrainian President is very limited in his power. The Parliament appoints the Government, and, therefore, it controls financial and economic issues, not the president. By his own presidential power,...
On Wednesday, 22 May, the first legislative initiative of the newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskyi failed in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament). It concerned changes in the election system. The MPs did not vote to include the...
The appointee to the Army’s General Staff wasn’t mentioned as a member of the Zelenskyi team before. One more newly appointed official was incumbent deputy foreign minister Olena Zerkal, though later her nomination was revoked....
Many fear that the inexperienced Volodymyr Zelenskyi may prove to be a disaster as president of Ukraine, making the kind of mistakes that Vladimir Putin and others will exploit to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity and...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of their ancestors from their homeland, an action in which tens of thousands died in Central Asian exile and from which...
Why? Because everyone would be discussing the final episode of the most popular TV series in the world, and not the inauguration of the president of one of the poorest and most controversial countries in Eastern Europe. No slick tidbits or...
Zelenskyi calls on diaspora to return to Ukraine, promises citizenship During the campaign, the Zelenskyi team promised to return Ukrainian migrant workers back home. Now Zelenskyi called on the Ukrainian diaspora to return to Ukraine:...
This week marked the tenth anniversary of the Eastern Partnership in Brussels. The main news about this event, however, wasn’t about the “partnership,“ and not even the European Union. On 13 May, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo...
The milk can was accidentally found by local villagers on April 25 and, with the assistance of Galinfo journalists, was subsequently transferred to the museum for restoration. According to preliminary findings, the documents probably...
On 21 April, comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyi won a landslide victory at the runoff round of the Ukrainian presidential elections. Days after the elections, a video address was shared on social networks in which Zelenskyi blamed the Central...
On 16 May, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, the famous frontman of the highly popular Ukrainian rock-band Okean Elzy, finally officially entered politics. On Thursday morning, in a picturesque corner of central Kyiv, he introduced his own political...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
Mufti Said Ismagilov, head of the Umma Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Ukraine, says that the looming disintegration of what he calls “the new Russian Empire” will begin with the Muslims as a result of Moscow’s pressure on them,...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
