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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 dialogue between people from different regions of Ukraine.
On Monday, 30 March 2020, the Ukrainian parliament made a significant step towards receiving a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is crucial to the country amid the coronavirus crisis. The bill, named Improvement of Some...
The Minsk Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) met on 26 March to discuss the Donbas situation, but no ratification of controversial agreements, drafted two weeks earlier, took place. The meeting had to be conducted online, and thus the...
On 24 March, Ukrainians launched an online-protest against recognition of Russia’s Donbas puppet republics on Facebook. Under the coronavirus quarantine restrictions, any “offline” form of protest is currently practically impossible...
The Donbas situation Starting from 16 March, Ukraine limited passage via its entry-exit checkpoints from the temporarily occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in order to prevent the spreading of infection. Only persons who are...
The Ukrainian Parliament has appointed Iryna Venediktova, the acting head of the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR), as Prosecutor General. She became the first woman to hold the position. Activists have already voiced their discontent...
During the last six years, Ukraine’s cinematography has finally started to develop. While one of the reasons for this has been the support it has received from the state, others include a demand from Ukrainian citizens to watch films...
It’s March 2020, and updates about the coronavirus fill the newscasts and grab all the attention. Meanwhile, Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin’s main voice in Ukraine, together with other Ukrainian MPs from the pro-Russian “Opposition...
*Lustration – government policy that seeks to cleanse a new regime from corrupt remnants of the past. The Lustration Law was originally appealed in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in 2015. Now, five years later, the court has...
One day after sacking the Prime Minister and reshuffling the government, the Ukrainian Parliament voted to dismiss the Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka. The decision was made on the extraordinary parliamentary meeting which was called...
Denys Smyhal held the position of vice-prime minister and minister for Communities and Territories Development in the government of Oleksiy Honcharuk since early February 2020. At the start of 2020, Honcharuk and President Zelenskyy...
Fake news and disinformation receive most of the attention of western security institutions when it comes to examining Russian meddling in democratic countries. What escapes the attention of many an analyst is that disinformation is only a...
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