Browsing Category
Ukraine
3332 posts
All news about Ukraine.
Haytarma: the film about Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars Russia doesn’t want you to see | Watch online
Among the many films prohibited for public screening in Russia is Haytarma, the first feature film about Stalin’s…
Why Putin can’t allow Ukraine to succeed and why the West must make sure it does
In the course of a wide-ranging discussion in advance of the release of his new book on Russia…
Alternative Energy is Rapidly Developing in Ukraine
Ukraine’s favorable geographic position contributes to the development of alternative energy. In the next few years, work will…
No one denies Soviet Army defeated Hitler but Russians won’t admit it occupied those it liberated, Tatyana Ross says
For Russians, Victory Day is an ever more important date; but they act as if May 9 was…
Russian-hybrid forces kill four civilians in Donbas amid Eurovision grand final
On 13 May, the Eurovision song contest grand final in Kyiv was accompanied by Russian artillery attacks in…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
Ukrainian soldiers in war zone display enemy “trophies” gathered after night attacks
“Everything you see here is what comes flying at us every day.” says soldier Andriy “Look, that’s an…
The real clash of civilizations: Last Lenin comes down in Kyiv as Stalin cult rises in Moscow
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation…
First Ukrainian city stops using gas heating, switches to wood waste
In 2017, raion center Zhovkva became the first gas-free city in Ukraine. The European Union funded the project…
Three years after sham referendums in Donbas, no Russian Spring
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal “referendums” were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk…
Volodymyr Vyatrovych: Hopefully Ukraine will soon commemorate Victory Day on May 8
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment…
Valentyn Kovalsky: a story of life, war and death
His friend Valeriy Lohinov, call sign “Askold”, remembers him fondly: “Valentyn enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
Contents The myth of May 9The myth of the great victory of the Soviet peopleBrezhnev, L. The Great Victory of…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
Know Kyiv like a local. Some insights for Eurovision visitors
Kyiv has already opened its doors for tourists coming to see the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. We at…
Fascinating History of Kyiv Trams: The Lifeblood of the Ukrainian Capital
Comfortable, safe, eco-friendly, high-speed and even … romantic. All this can be said about Kyiv trams. Some people commute…
Moving poem by Yuliya, wife of Oleksandr Korinkov, prisoner in the “DNR”
A raven croaks its dreary song above the man sitting in darkness, A darkness covered in sorrow, even…
Ukrainian graffiti artists create visual magic on city walls
The artists work on giant walls, suspended on elevation platforms, splashing liters of paint over city walls. Their…
Ecological disaster in Ukraine caused by Moscow’s invasion spreads into Russia, experts say
Just as was the case with the Chornobyl accident 25 years ago last month, the environmental damage caused…
Would shift to Latin script liberate Ukrainian or destroy it?
Even though Ukrainian has a stronger historical claim to the Cyrillic alphabet than does Russian and even though…