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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 5 September 2017, Ukraine’s Parliament passed a new education law called to advance the much-needed education reform. Among many things, it will raise teachers’ minimal salaries from $202 to $370 and extend the basic...
Early morning September 13, unknown people in masks and FSB attire broke into the house where local merchant Renat Parlamov, a young father of four children, was living together with his wife and her parents. Without showing their ID and...
As the selection process to Ukraine’s top judicial institution, the Supreme Court, enters its final phase, the EU Delegation and civic activists are calling on Ukraine’s final selection committee to show the door to 30 judges...
Russia’s FSB has confirmed that the Ukrainian teenager Pavlo Hryb, who went missing in Belarus on 24 August 2017, is being kept in the pre-trial detention center #5 in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, the official...
On 20 February 2014, 48 participants of Ukraine’s pro-western Euromaidan protests were shot by the Berkut riot police. Shortly after, the protesters won, then-president Yanukovych fled, and a pro-western government came to power. A...
The Dutch government will investigate the legality of the participation of two local companies in the construction of the bridge from Russia across the Kerch Strait to occupied Crimea, contravening EU sanctions, according to Foreign Trade...
As the story that started from the NYT article about Ukraine allegedly supplying missile engines to North Korea was in full swing, a Russian prankster duo gave a call to the director of Ukraine’s missile plant Yuzhmash, attempting to...
On 14 August 2017, the New York Times published an article by Pulitzer winning journalists William Broad and David E. Sanger stating that North Korea’s recent ballistic missile success is explained by black market purchases of rocket...
Four gas turbines produced by German technogiant Siemens have been delivered to occupied Crimea in breach of EU sanctions. They are being installed in two power stations under construction. EU sanctions prohibit helping power the...
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the Eurovision international song contest, is going to change the rules of the contest to prohibit countries sending participants who might be banned from entering the host country...
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever known – local historian Yuriy Dmitriev. He has dedicated his life to the dead. He is accused either of producing child pornography or illegal...
