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Ukraine lost $20 million to corruption over three years, State Bureau of Investigation reports
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), an anti-corruption institution created in 2018 to investigate crimes of top officials,…
Starved mother lay dead while her baby sucked on empty breast | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared…
“Black diggers” unearth 2 metal drums filled with grain dating from 1946-47
The news was subsequently announced on FB by Mykola Bandrivsky, chairman of the archeological commission at the Shevchenko…
Kyiv Post owner got “signals” from Ukraine’s government & law enforcement, former deputy chief editor says
Controversy rages over why Adnan Kivan, the owner of Ukraine’s largest English-language newspaper Kyiv Post, decided to suddenly…
Big privatization reform in Ukraine gains momentum with first auction
[editorial] A Ukrainian state-owned, 139-year-old industrial giant — ironically named Bolshevik – was sold for UAH 1.43 billion…
Ukrainian language slowly yet steadily displaces Russian in Ukraine
[editorial]On 9 November, Ukrainians celebrate the day of Ukrainian language and writing. It is celebrated since 1997, symbolically,…
My granny stole pig food for us grandchildren but died of starvation herself | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Contents The Syvak family“And they took everything away from everyone”Surrogates“No one cried, no one was sorry for anyone,…
Kyiv Post shuts down; staff says this is the owner’s act of vengeance
Ukraine’s largest English-language newspaper Kyiv Post reports that its owner, Adnan Kivan, is shutting down the newspaper “for…
Former “Russian spring” target Kharkiv’s new mayor to continue Kernes’ balancing act
During the last weekend of October 2021, Kharkiv, the city that calls itself “the first capital of Ukraine,”…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
[editorial]The scientifically sound estimate of the number of Ukrainians who starved to death in Stalin’s Holodomor famine is…
Lockdown and vaccination opponents protest in Kyiv amid COVID-19 surge
[editorial]Roughly 2,000 people in Kyiv protested new lockdown rules on 3 November. Amid a COVID-19 surge, the government…
Half our village died of starvation, mostly the elderly | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds…
The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal
[editorial]Millions of people around the world know about the Katyn massacre, the execution of 22,000 Poles captured in…
My neighbor buried her three children | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
[editorial]Vasylyna Yarovenko, née Kashchuk, was a ten-year-old peasant girl in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the…
Digital Transformation Ministry offers job to man accused of hacking Ukraine’s official “state in a smartphone” app
[editorial]A 21-year-old self-taught hacker created a fake version of Ukraine’s official “state in a smartphone” Diia app, Ukrainian…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
[editorial]First document on kulaks and kulak farms Resolution of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian…
Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family.…
Ukraine holds first-ever confiscation of illegal assets
[editorial] On 27 October, the Appellate Chember of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld its decision to confiscate MP…
When will non-oligarchic political parties flourish in Ukraine?
Ukraine’s current political and economic landscape formed under chaotic conditions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when…