Wild Field Up until the late 17th century, the huge steppe of modern Ukraine’s southeast was the country’s Outback and was often referred to as Dyke Pole, or the Wild Field. The lands had a rather sparse population of Cossacks,...
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reported on his Facebook page the alleged identities of three warders involved in tortures in Donetsk-based...
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The photo was posted by the anonymous Donetsk Tractorist channel on 27 January. Read also: Donetsk art center...
“I myself started from the bottom. I didn’t have any super training or super shoes. So, I know how young people feel in Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Druzhkovka. At this time, their families face a very difficult financial situation,...
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying for Ukraine – went through the facility. In particular, for 28 months, terrorists held journalist and blogger...
Chasiv Yar hospice In the town of Chasiv Yar, a family volunteered to create a hospice that sheltered some 150 senior citizens from across the entire oblast, including its occupied parts within three years. Now there are 32 lonely elderly...
Hello! My name is Nastia. When the war began, I was just 11, and I lived in occupation until I was 16. This year I moved to Dnipro to graduate from school and enter university since I’d like to become a journalist. I have something to...
In July 2014, Ukrainian armed forces launched an anti-terrorist operation (ATO) against pro-Russian forces which controlled large parts of the two Eastern-Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk also known as the Donbas. Ukrainian...
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms – the Russian-language Internet is full of videos showing the threat coming from radical groups. They can call themselves pro-Russian guerillas in...
Russia controls the situation in its proxy state in eastern Ukraine, the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) via Russian-established law enforcement agencies, or siloviki, which are at the top of the pyramid...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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