Website:
Sofia Kochmar-Tymoshenko is a journalist based in Kyiv. In 2014, Sofia started working as a TV-journalist and fixer for international media. Her professional interest is religious freedom and human rights.
London is maintaining a disproportionately strict visa policy towards Ukraine, causing serious difficulties, delays and disruption to travel, according to the Ukrainian outlet European Pravda. Ukrainians share their experiences in...
The peninsula had disappeared from the first pages of international media outlets long ago. Ukrainian journalists rarely travel for stories from Crimea. The only ones who stir up the information wave come from inside the occupied peninsula...
During the first presidential election round on 31 March, Ukrainians were impressed by photos from election points around the world. Hundreds of Ukrainians were photographed queueing to exercise their right to vote and select the...
On 27 March, in its largest raid yet, Russian special services tore into the homes of several dozen Crimean Tatar families in occupied Crimea. Read more: Russia arrests 23 Crimean Tatars after largest raid ever in occupied Crimea Sons,...
At about 6 AM on 27 March, Russian security forces raided more than 20 houses of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea. At least 20 men were arrested and accused of participation in the pan-Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir. The next day,...
For the 2019 presidential elections, the Central Election Commission registered 139 Ukrainian NGOs monitoring the election process, a record. Among them is the Natsionalni Druzhyny (“National Militia”), a far-right...
A record amount of over 2.3 bn UAH ($85 mn) has been allocated from the state budget for financing the 2019 election of the President of Ukraine. This is 20% more than in 2014, the presidential election which took place immediately after...
Learning Ukrainian online has become easier, now that the government is offering a free online course “SpeakUkrainian.” The course is an initiative arising from the Ukrainian Ministry of Information Policy. The front page provides this...
The first Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) gathering took place in January 2014 amid the Euromaidan protests just after the Ukrainian Parliament had passed the so-called dictatorship laws forbidding street protest, free media,...
On March 1, Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv and leader of the Samopomich party, withdrew his candidacy for president in favor of Anatoliy Hrytsenko, the leader of the Hromadianska Pozitsiya party. “Right now, we have a chance to choose...
“Draw your own candidate” The first striking fact is that, according to Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Fund “Democratic Initiatives,” 37% of Zelenskyi’s electorate support Ukraine’s membership in NATO while another 37%...
