It is winter, and inside the town of Novhorodske, a small assembly of people crowd around a Red Cross volunteer who is heating the room with a small oven powered by branches cut from trees in the town. Logging is illegal; coal mines are...
We, the representatives of many civic communities in Poland and Ukraine, desire to make known our protest against the continuation and escalation of confrontational politics in relations between Poland and Ukraine! These politics ruin the...
What happened? Russia cut off the gas supply to Ukraine amid abnormal frosts, having lowered pressure in the pipe just minutes before it was supposed to start supplying gas to Ukraine according to the ruling of the Stockholm arbitration...
The total amount of investments in Ukrainian IT startups in 2017 increased to $265 million, representing a 231% increase from 2016. The data are published in the report “The Dealbook of Ukraine” by the venture fund AVentures...
A few days ago, the Polish Homeland Security Agency announced the arrest of three men suspected of committing arson attacks on the Hungarian Cultural Society office in Uzhhorod on 4 February 2018. The arrest wasfa coordinated with the...
Would you describe the day you left the prison? Actually, a conflict arose on the day I left the prison; this was December 27, 2017. I was immediately contacted by Russian journalists from Moscow although I was serving my sentence in the...
“In the first two months of 2018, we’ve recorded two to three suicides per week, which means 16 soldiers have committed suicide since the beginning of this year. This information was recently issued by the Unified Register of Pre-trial...
Despite the initial silence around these deaths in the Russian media and a significant understatement of losses, the news from Syria is probably beneficial to the Kremlin (this is, perhaps, the reason for Russia’s eventual recognition of...
Some twenty soldiers are sitting at a table, assiduously drawing and painting angels with the help of volunteers. Most of them have never worked on paper or canvas. The task is to draw an angel. Artur Spirin is one of the few veterans that...
– Ms. Andiyevska, what was your reaction when you found out that you’d won the Shevchenko Prize for Literature? – I’d like to thank all the kind and generous people in Ukraine who made it possible. I can’t remember them...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
