On 20 February 2014, 48 participants of Ukraine’s pro-western Euromaidan protests were shot by the Berkut riot police. Shortly after, the protesters won, then-president Yanukovych fled, and a pro-western government came to power. A...
When U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid his first official visit to Ukraine on 9 July 2017, he met with a small group of Ukrainian civil society activists prior to his meeting with President Poroshenko. The sequence of...
On July 5, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who stands charged with high treason in Ukraine said he will not participate in the in-absentia treason trial. The hearing was scheduled to resume in Kyiv on June 6 while the...
Sergey Kusyuk, the former chief of the Berkut special police involved in violently dispersing Euromaidan protesters, was spotted dispersing protesters in Moscow on 12 June 2017. A photo of Kusyuk was published by the Russian TV...
The film title refers to the family story of the author. In the late 1950s, Crimean Tatar artists deported to Central Asia organized a folk song and dance ensemble. The uncle of Akhtem Seitablaiev suggested to call it “Haytarma,” which...
The Ukrainian Language In Ukraine, as soon as the government begins losing public support, we immediately see radical discussions about the Ukrainian language. Both the government and the oligarchs play their cards right, but these...
Vivica Williams, UATV correspondent: Paul and I met on the pedestrian bridge overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, in the center of Kyiv. This is where everything began in November 2013. So, Paul, you have been here for...
A film about the war in Donbas has won best documentary at a US film festival. “Breaking Point: War for Democracy in Ukraine” delves into the fallout of the Euromaidan revolution and the war that followed. The film follows...
Even though Vladimir Putin did not take part in the public commemorations of the third anniversary of his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, there is no question that his press secretary is right that the day he took that step...
On February 18-21 Ukraine commemorates the darkest days in its modern history – the killings of the peaceful protesters of the Euromaidan revolution. Three years ago these people became victims of the tyrannic regime of then president...
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever known – local historian Yuriy Dmitriev. He has dedicated his life to the dead. He is accused either of producing child pornography or illegal...
