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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 December 11 Ukrainian society was hit by the news of Roman Nasirov, ex-head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, being renewed at his position. Nasirov is suspected in causing UAH 2 bn ($73.7mn) of damage to the state. He is a...
On November 28, the final version of the Presidential decree on the imposition of martial law in ten oblasts of Ukraine was published. According to it, martial law came into force starting from 14:00 of November 26 and will last until...
Before Euromaidan, Roman was a young man who organized music events. Having an intuitive nature, he joined the revolution, as he felt it could bring positive change to the country. Five years later he is a regular participant at different...
Anton Kravchenko is an activist from Kryviy Rih, a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Before Euromaidan, he used to work as an IT engineer for a big company in Dnipro and had never been involved in activism. When the revolution started, he...
Oleksandra Dvoretska was an activist way before the Euromaidan Revolution. Still, Ukraine’s public uprising of 2013-2014 changed her life dramatically. She had to leave her home in Crimea and now cannot even visit it. The same goes for...
Larysa Artiugina is a documentary film director and the founder of the New Donbas NGO. Starting from 2014 she organized a number of reconciliation projects for people from Donbas, mostly for school students. She also was involved in...
Before the Euromaidan Revolution, lawyer Roman Maselko used to be the head of a department of one of the international banks working in Ukraine. He was not involved in activism and even had no Facebook page. Five years later, he is fully...
Five years later, a shadow of his wrongdoings still hangs over Ukraine’s current politics and business. Moreover, some key figures of his regime still have influence in Ukraine. Euromaidan Press checked what happened to the main actors...
The launch of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) is a huge step forward for Ukraine. The country’s civil society has been fighting for this for more than two years. First and foremost, the creation of the court offers the...
The fight for its creation was not easy. President Petro Poroshenko, the author of Ukraine’s judicial reform, resisted the idea till the very last moment. The pressure of society and Ukraine’s western partners made him change his mind....
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
