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Kostiantyn Yanchenko is a freelance journalist since 2012. He has experience in writing for Ukrainian and international media where he is mainly focused on global culture in particular issues of minorities, refugees, and diaspora. Kostiantyn also conducts research activities as a student of new media department at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. His scientific interests include phenomenon of media glocalization,
media literacy and propaganda.
During our interview, Canberk Bal, a young man from Turkey, is wearing a vyshyvanka – a Ukrainian national embroidered shirt. Canberk has just come back from the west-Ukrainian city of Lviv where he worked as a volunteer tutor...
On June 29, the Paris Court ordered Anna Jaillard Chesanovska, a Ukrainian France-based journalist and translator, to pay a EUR 10,000 fine to French journalist and filmmaker Paul Moreira. The money is supposed to be a compensation for...
The “Territory of Terror” memorial museum in the western-Ukrainian city of Lviv is located in a place that experienced the horrors of both German Nazi and Soviet Communist regimes. The Lviv ghetto existed here during the German...
On May 15 Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko approved a decision of National Security Council (NSDC) to expand “personal economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)” against personalities linked to the Crimean annexation,...
Since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, Ukrainian journalist, publicist and translator Yuriy Durkot has been developing Ukrainian-German relations in a variety of ways. From 1995 till 2000, he served as a Press Officer of the...
Since Russia annexed Сrimea and started the war in Donbas in 2014, 18 Ukrainian state universities have been evacuated from the occupied areas: nine from Donetsk Oblast, eight from Luhansk Oblast, and one from the Crimean Peninsula....
Once the outcome of the US presidential elections was clear, a roundtable regarding the future of Ukrainian-American relations after Donald Trump’s victory took place in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The event was held at the...
The successful performance of the Ukrainian team in 2016 Summer Paralympics raised not only sports but human rights issues. On 11 September 2016, when Ukraine for a short time beatthe UK in the overall rankings, social activist Kateryna...
From the beginning of 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, the world media’s attention is drawn to Ukrainian team. It has steadily been holding third place in the medal table in Rio for the ninth day in a row and is likely to...
According to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, 20-25% of Ukrainian households are poor. Meanwhile, elderly are the most unprotected and amenable category. Till Mayer, a German journalist, photographer, and Red Cross volunteer,...
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever known – local historian Yuriy Dmitriev. He has dedicated his life to the dead. He is accused either of producing child pornography or illegal...
