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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.
In the last four years many things have changed in Ukraine – it experienced a de-facto war with Russia, reforms (both successful and not really), the birth of civil society. But the political landscape has barely changed. Ukrainians...
The slow pace of reforms and lack of fruitful results in fighting corruption in Ukraine often overshadow all the positive steps of the last 4 years. For instance, two institutions which were created from scratch to tackle top corruption...
Establishing the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC) has been a ray of hope for the country’s media landscape. With independence from oligarchic money, it should have been able to provide the audience with impartial coverage...
On 27 September, demonstrators in 12 Ukrainian cities gathered to support civic activists who fell victim to attacks starting from 2017. A joint appeal signed by representatives of over 50 NGOs demanded that the central and local...
Ukraine is once again entering a difficult phase – pre-election time. In 2019, Ukrainians will vote for both the president and parliament. Also this autumn, the country will mark the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the...
While traditional journalists can be blamed of being biased and propaganda media can manipulate information to skew the reality of what has happened that day, the Virtual Reality project is called to show everything as it was. The founders...
And what do you read about Ukraine in your country? Unbalanced information about Ukraine is one of the major problems in covering the country’s progress abroad, according to Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for...
In August 2018, Ukraine marks the fourth anniversary of the Ilovaisk battle, the deadliest episode in the country’s modern history. It was this battle that tipped the scales in the war between Ukrainian pro-government and Russian...
A subsidiary of the Boeing top aerospace company signed an agreement on cooperation with the once glorious Ukrainian Antonov Enterprise. Antonov and Aviall Services Inc. signed the deal at the Farnborough International Airshow in the...
In 2015, as part of a strategy to tackle corruption and modernize Ukraine after the Euromaidan Revolution, two institutions were created from scratch — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
