Alya Shandra
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Website: http://euromaidanpress.com
Alya Shandra is the editor-in-chief 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

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  2019/11/26 - 04:37 • Maidan

  Dignity after the Revolution of Dignity

  Nobody knows who coined the term “Revolution of Dignity” to describe the Euromaidan revolution. But it resonated so much with the term “Searching for Europe, we found ourselves,” which described the burning desire for another way...

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• 2019/11/12 - 03:10 • Hybrid War

  What Surkov’s hacked emails tell about Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine

   Ukraine’s greatest cyber offensive against Russia allowed us to look into the mind of the country waging war against us. So I thought we have to use this incident to the fullest – hence the report “The Surkov Leaks:...

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  2019/11/06 - 06:43 • Infographics, War in the Donbas

  Minsk-2 is the real problem for Ukraine, not “Steinmeier’s formula” | Infographics

  “Steinmeier’s formula,” which specifies that the Ukrainian law on the “special status” of occupied Donbas will come into force after local elections are held there, has become the hottest war-related...

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  2019/10/26 - 01:13 • War in the Donbas

  Experts urge to scrap term “Minsk Agreements” as they are not a...

  A number of experts specializing in hybrid war have appealed to the Ukrainian authorities to stop using the term “Minsk Arrangements” and start using the name “Minsk Consultations,” or “Minsk Protocols,” since the...

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  2019/10/25 - 23:22 • Featured, War in the Donbas

  Leaked Kremlin emails show Minsk protocol designed as path to Ukraine’s capitulation...

  “Steinmeier’s Formula” has since October 2019 become the number one political controversy in Ukraine. This detailing of the way that the political part of the Minsk Protocol should be implemented has sparked a holy war between those...

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  2019/10/15 - 01:52 • War in the Donbas

  Protests against Zelenskyy’s peace plan for Donbas continue as 12,000 march in...

  According to the police, up to 12,000 people took part in the “No to Capitulation” march led by the Veteran Brotherhood movement, the European Solidarity-linked NGO “Sprava Hromad,” Democratic Axe political party,...

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  2019/10/12 - 22:40 • International

  Greek Orthodox Church becomes first to affirm newly-independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine

  On 12 October, a Council of the hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church convening in Athens adopted a proposal of its primate, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II, to ratify a previous decision of the Synode of this Church (the...

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  2019/10/08 - 03:59 • War in the Donbas

  The real problem with “Steinmeier’s formula” and the Russo-Ukrainian war

  Since 1 October, Ukraine has been in turmoil. “Steinmeier’s formula” is the reason. This proposal for Minsk negotiations called to end the Donbas war voiced by then-German Foreign Minister Steinmeier in 2015 was called back to life...

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  2019/10/03 - 03:14 • War in the Donbas

  Protests against Steinmeier’s formula spread in Ukraine, “movement against capitulation” founded

  On 2 October 2019, protests against Steinmeier’s formula continued in Ukraine. Having erupted a day earlier in response to news that ex-President Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s representative to the Trilateral Contact Group, had...

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  2019/09/26 - 01:07 • Political prisoners

  Nikolai Polozov: the Kremlin can take as many hostages as it wants...

  The euphoria from the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia which took part on 7 September has somewhat worn off in Ukraine. The 35 Ukrainians who returned home – 24 sailors and 11 political prisoners – are undergoing...

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