When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to power in 2019, he instigated a major policy of privatization of State enterprises. He ordered 500 of 3700 of them to be transferred to the State Property Fund for big, middle, and small...
During his school years, inventor Valentyn Frechka was a member of Ukraine’s Minor Academy of Sciences — a state institution for supporting gifted and talented students. Then, as a rural school student in the village of...
Nonetheless, the UASOF still suffers from some obstacles on its road to superior combat readiness. Chief among them is a lack of financing, which is common to the entire Armed Forces. Despite its small size compared to Ukraine’s other...
Among the topics discussed at the conference were fighting corruption in transitional democracies, de-oligarchization, as well as hybrid threats, disinformation, and others relevant to Ukraine’s position in the world agenda. The first...
The latest “National Security Strategy of Ukraine” was approved on September 14, 2020 (see EDM, September 24, 2020), months overdue; and the “Military Security Strategy” was only adopted on March 25, 2021 (see EDM, May 25, 2021)....
President Zelenskyy expects increased support from Germany, especially in arms supplies In an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, President Zelenskyy said he expected more support from Germany, including in...
In November 2018, Kyiv adopted the “Strategy of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Until 2035” (Navy.mil.gov.ua, January 1, 2019). This planning document outlined the formation of a so-called “mosquito fleet” as a priority until 2030....
No freedom — no culture. No money — no culture. Under the Soviet Union, Ukrainian culture had no freedom at all, therefore the question of money was not on the agenda. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukrainian culture gained...
Journalists published new records regarding Medvedchuk Ukrainian investigative journalists have published conversations that purportedly were held by oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk and testify the latters’ criminal role in betraying...
In Ukraine, there is only one privileged kind of business — that which belongs to oligarchs. Oligarchs invest money from their businesses into supporting political forces for elections. Further, these forces defend oligarchs’...
What Belarusians fear B.B.: How can you live and create in such conditions, when authorities can stop a passenger flight and arrest someone like the journalist Roman Protasevich. Aren’t you afraid they might come for you tomorrow? To...
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