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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
In a triumph of history over commerce, on 19 April 2017, the Kyiv City Council greenlighted a decision to stop the construction of a shopping mall in central Kyiv. Archeological excavations conducted at the construction site uncovered a...
Nadiya Savchenko, the once-legendary Ukrainian pilot heroically resisting a show trial in Russian jail who was propelled into the Ukrainian political scene after being released in 2016, managed to turn herself into an outcast, and,...
Nadiya Savchenko, the military pilot and ex-Kremlin hostage who after her release in 2016 embarked on a political career as headliner of Yuliya Tymoshenko’s party Batkivshchyna, has been detained today by Ukrainian security officers on...
Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean activist who flew the Ukrainian flag over his house in Russian-occupied Crimea, has gone on a termless hunger strike. The Crimean farmer whom the Russian occupation authorities in Crimea accused of storing...
International Women’s Day, is undergoing an identity crisis in Ukraine. 8 March 2018 is the last time it will be celebrated as a state holiday and day off, as part of Ukraine’s decommunization measures. And its very meaning is...
The Governor of Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast Hennadiy Moskal told on 21 February that two Polish radicals from the right-wing extremist movement Falanga were behind the arson attempt on the “Society of Hungarian culture of...
On 18 January 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament, or Verkhovna Rada, adopted the law on the reintegration of Donbas in its second reading, with 280 out of the total 450 deputies voted in favor. The law gives Russia the status of an occupying...
On 16 January 2017, Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean farmer who kept raising the Ukrainian flag above his house after Russia’s occupation of Crimea, was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison in a second trial which...
It was February 2014. Anti-government protests had been going on in Kyiv’s central square, the Maidan, for three months. Dubbed “Euromaidan,” they started when President Viktor Yanukovych backed out of signing the Association...
Iryna Nozdrovska, a lawyer who had on 27 December 2017 managed to prevent the release of the killer of her sister from imprisonment, was found dead on 1 January near Kyiv after being missing for two days. After several days of search...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
