It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday evening entertainment in shooting bottles on the street. They are drunk. Five-year-old Kyrylo was playing...
Ukraine coverage in numbers In a discussion on Twitter initiated by Alexey Kovalyov, an editor at Meduza, commenters used the search function on RIA Novosti’s website to quantify the agency’s focus on Ukraine. It turns out that...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
There are at least two reasons why the Kremlin is working to avoid any transition of power from Vladimir Putin to someone else, Vitaly Shklyarov says, making all the discussion among the Russian commentariat and beyond “a waste of...
The group discovered 19 bodies in a deep pit, not far from the prison wall. Among them: three women, the rest – men. Four victims were shot in the head. According to preliminary estimates of experts, the victims were not executed at...
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the USSR, and Gorbachev’s comeback to Moscow, The New York Times proclaimed that Russians were ready to undertake “a colossal task of...
An internet party to win? In the interview to LB.ua, Ruslan Stefanchuk, “head in the sphere of ideology” of the party confirmed, that as for May 2019 the party still had no party lists of candidates, not enough regional offices and has...
Open letter to PACE Assembly Members: Don’t deprive us of hope for the liberation of our relatives who are imprisoned by Russia Deeply respected PACE Assembly Members, The number of victims of Russia’s undeclared war against...
OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF EUROPE – REJECT EFFORTS TO WEAKEN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S POWER TO SANCTION COUNTRIES VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW DEAR CITIZEN OF EUROPE, In most parts of the world, people...
International polling, such as Pew’s 2018 research, has been proving the failure of Russian “soft power” since Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. According to Pew, just 34% and 26% of the global public (covering 25 countries) expressed a...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
