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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.
Will Ukraine have snap 2019 parliamentary elections that will take place on 21 July? This question was in the air since 20 May when newly-elected president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the dissolution of the current parliament during his...
Five years after the Euromaidan Revolution, the hopes of Ukrainian society for the renewal of the generation in power started to gradually fulfill themselves. The parties predicted to enter the next parliament have included well-known...
Election reform is one of the most needed, yet protracted changes in Ukraine. In 2014 both society and politicians were clear – the rules should be corrected to eliminate corruption from the process and to provide for the fair...
Estimates on which political parties will make it to the Verkhovna Rada, or Ukrainian parliament, in the 21 July snap elections are ongoing. So far, according to the polls, there are five forces which can safely expect to get seats in the...
It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday evening entertainment in shooting bottles on the street. They are drunk. Five-year-old Kyrylo was playing...
Have you ever wondered what the best thing you can do for Ukraine is? Hundreds of men and women from different countries of the world found their answer. They decided to devote a few weeks of their life teaching English to Ukrainian kids....
Establishing the High Anti-Corruption Court has been one of Ukraine’s major recent successes in the battle against corruption. However, as not all administrative steps have been concluded, for the next three weeks or so the court will...
The instructors of Media docUA recognized immediately that local youth are heavily downtrodden by the destruction all around them. They knew they needed to show them that they still have options, in spite of their dismal circumstances....
Independent media is one of the most important components of democracy, especially during the election period, when the journalists are called to help voters make the right choice. However, that is not how things work in Ukraine. For many...
On Wednesday, 22 May, the first legislative initiative of the newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskyy failed in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament). It concerned changes in the election system. The MPs did not vote to include the...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
