The abrupt dismissal of the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster director Zurab Alasania has raised a media fury in Ukraine, with accusations ranging from censorship to state coercion prior to elections. Alasania had many critics, who claim that...
“The control is total” “It is well known that the major Russian media, and especially television, are under the control of the authorities,” so the independent Russian online outlet Proekt begins its investigative article, and...
The concept is usually cultivated among die-hard conspiracy theorists, and it occasionally appears in popular culture. We find conspiracy theories involving powerful people in James Bond movies, in Tintin comic books, in novels like the Da...
The prosecutors asked the court to sentence Yanukovych to 15 years imprisonment, the maximal term prescribed for high treason under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Judges of the Obolon District Court in Kyiv found Yanukovych...
On 5 February, Kyiv’s District Administrative Court forbade Uliana Suprun, hailed by many as one of the few truly reform-minded public servants left in Ukraine, to perform her duties of acting Health Minister. The decision not only...
A new book, entitled Russia and Ukraine. Days of Eclipse, which collects articles about Putin’s war in Ukraine that were published in Pskovskaya guberniya regional newspaper between 2014 and 2017 shows that that conflict looks very...
On the day of the enthronement of the metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), President Petro Poroshenko said that in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, the church is and will remain independent of the state. But...
The participation of international experts in the process of creating the anti-corruption court was a demand of Ukraine’s western partners and civil society. Their task was to check the candidates integrity and professionalism. The...
A new poll conducted by the SOCIS Center, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre reports that a majority of those Ukrainians who say they are Orthodox identify with the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church rather...
“These are rare historical postcards. I want people to see and use this material, so please share my album. I’ve been collecting Ukrainian postcards since 1992. My favorite topics include Ukrainian landscapes, typical Ukrainian...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
