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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 beginning of September 2014, just after the Ilovaisk tragedy (outside of a city near Donetsk, where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers were massacred under fire), the filmmakers from BABYLON’13 headed by the director Lora...
The driving force of Ukraine, its young people, are patriots, despite the hardships the country faces, a recent study carried out by GfK Ukraine on request of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine reveals. The target group of the...
Ukraine’s most well-known reform is the creation of a new, non-corrupt police service based on the Georgian model. However, the disbanded old militsiya forces are not taking it easy: last week, a few hundred of them came to protest in...
The falsified results of mayoral elections in Kryvyi Rih have led to protests with thousands participants. This example has shown that people desire change even in regions where life is much like it was during Soviet times. It also...
International Volunteer Day is celebrated on December the 5th since 1985. The word “volunteer” has a special meaning now in Ukraine. During the last two years after the Euromaidan revolution volunteers are those people who are...
In its treatment of people with disabilities, Ukraine has to choose whether to mechanically repeat Soviet patterns or to follow the example of democratic countries. “There are no invalids in the USSR!..” 70 years ago, when Soviet...
Power lines blasts in Ukraine resulted in a blackout in Crimean peninsula which is into its sixth day. While Ukrainian society and media are discussing whether it is worth applying such measures as an energy blockade towards Crimea,...
2020 was a hard year for nearly the entire world: the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple ensuing crises showed how easily our civilization can be upset by something as microscopic as a virus. Ukraine faced additional challenges. Ukrainian...
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