The demographic portrait of the region: how Russian propaganda used it The ethnicity map of Ukraine suggests that Putin had a reason to target the territories of Donbas and Crimea. These are the regions with the smallest percentage of...
Travan has visited the war zone in Eastern Ukraine several times “in order to capture the harsh reality of war on camera and bring it to the consciousness of Italians and Europeans through images showing a conflict that has become the...
Fact 1. Strikes and protests against Soviet authorities in Donetsk Oblast An active anti-Soviet underground flourished in the Donbas. For example, the regional KGB was constantly on the look-out “for anti-Soviet elements and...
Soldier Kobchenko’s photo – called The Last Sight – caught the eye of the international jury at the Tokyo International Foto Awards . The photo, depicting the Ukrainian hero, won the Gold prize in the Editorial/Conflict category....
Mariya Tomak, one of the coordinators of the organization, has published an infographic, according to which 13 civilians are currently being held hostage in Luhansk Oblast, and 76 civilians in Donetsk Oblast. Iryna Herashchenko, Vice...
Vladimir Putin has assembled “hundreds of Russian T-64 and T-62M tanks and thousands of military vehicles” only 18 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border in the environs of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk of Rostov Oblast. All this can be...
Pointing to a buildup in Russian forces near the border, the Ukrainian military says that the Russian threat to Ukraine is the highest it has been since 2014 when Moscow invaded, seized and annexed Crimea and launched the war in the...
Back in spring-summer 2014, Russian-backed forces took control of the territory which is now officially referred to as “certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts” (ORDLO) in OSCE documents and Ukrainian legislature. As soon...
Since the international community considered the “general elections” in unrecognized “DNR” and “LNR” illegitimate, no real international monitors were sent to observe the event. Identified...
“Election vegetables” A number of measures were announced and then taken to attract voters. Among them were “celebrations” on central squares of Luhansk and Donetsk, interactive events, dance and sports shows,...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
