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Olena Makarenko is a journalist at Euromaidan Press. In 2014, Olena started working as a volunteer on public initiatives focusing on building civil society and promoting dialog between people from different regions of Ukraine.
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2017/06/20 - 19:25 •
Analysis & Opinion
On 9 June 2017, the once Donetsk-located creative platform IZOLYATSIA marked the third year since it moved to Kyiv. “I do not know what Americans feel on 9/11, but for us the 9th of June is a special day. However, we do not want to mark...
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2017/06/16 - 23:09 •
Analysis & Opinion
Exchange programs for citizens from different regions of Ukraine are a working solution for reconciliation. Three years after the beginning of the de facto war in Donbas, Ukrainians are starting to fix the fundamental problems in society...
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2017/06/13 - 03:23 •
News
Ukrainians have waited so very long for this day. While many were skeptical of it ever happening, the first day has finally arrived. For many, traveling is still too expensive, but the introduction of visa-free travel to the EU means that...
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2017/06/07 - 21:30 •
Analysis & Opinion, Featured, Politics
Three years have passed since Petro Poroshenko was inaugurated as President of Ukraine. Only two years of his presidential term are left. The closer to the end, the more talk there is that Poroshenko is following the path of the runaway...
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2017/06/07 - 04:35 •
Analysis & Opinion
Russian politicians and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine love the myth that the Ukrainian language is a big problem for people living in southeastern Ukraine. After the country turned westward following the Euromaidan revolution, Russian...
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2017/05/28 - 05:26 •
News
Opposing the monopolist Ukraine International Airlines, founded as a state company in 1992, was privatized in 2011. Now one of its final beneficiaries is oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. He has interests in many areas, including oil and...
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2017/05/25 - 06:01 •
News
The war against anti-corruption activists intensified in Ukraine. And its methods are now so convoluted that it is hard to tell reality from fakes. On 23 May 2017 during a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada Parliament, Ukrainian MPs watched a...
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2017/05/23 - 21:04 •
Volunteers
When the de-faсto war in eastern Ukraine only started, thousands of people made the decision to go to the frontline as volunteer soldiers. They were supported by another army – civil volunteers who provided them with food, clothes, and...
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2017/05/19 - 02:10 •
Analysis & Opinion
On 18 May 1944, the tragic deportation of Crimean Tatars was initiated by the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD). In result, at least 183,185 people were evicted (up to 240,000 by other estimates) – the...
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2017/05/16 - 21:07 •
Politics
For the third year in a row after the Euromaidan Revolution, Ukraine fights one of its main inner enemies – corruption. Some successful steps have already been made in this direction, however, the battle is still in full play. Moreover,...
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