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Alya Shandra is the managing editor at Euromaidan Press. She is a civic activist based in Kyiv and an expert in environmental and geography issues. Alya can be contacted at alya.shandra (a) gmail.com, on twitter @AlyaShandra., or FB
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...
Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker accused of terrorism by Russia, has announced that he is stopping the hunger strike that he had started on 14 May 2018, demanding to free all the Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia. He stated...
On 2 October, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Stratcom Ukraine announced the launch of a campaign in which it will ask international media to use the spelling “Kyiv” for the country’s capital instead of...
On 9 October, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will vote for a resolution which will determine the debates of the fall session of the Assembly. Moreover, the outcome may influence the future of the whole Council...
Ukraine and Hungary have entered another round of conflict escalation. A video which surfaced on 19 September showing Ukrainian citizens in the Zakarpattia Oblast swearing allegiance to Hungary has caused Ukraine to declare the Hungarian...
Here is everything you need to know about one of the most disturbing scenarios unraveling in a European institution. NOTE: This article has been, and will be updated according to the developing situation. What does PACE do, anyway? PACE,...
The massacre committed by the Nazis and local collaborators in the Babi Yar ravine on 29 September 1941, just 10 days after Kyiv was occupied during World War II, was the largest Holocaust mass execution “from bullets” in the Soviet...
Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian-backed “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine, has been reportedly killed in an explosion in central Donetsk. The news was reported by local...
The OSCE SMM which observes the implementation of the Minsk agreements in Ukraine’s Donbas region has spotted a convoy of trucks entering and exiting the non-government controlled areas of Donbas through the operation of a UAV during...
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...
