On 2 October, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Stratcom Ukraine announced the launch of a campaign in which it will ask international media to use the spelling “Kyiv” for the country’s capital instead of...
The Ukrainian parliament has backed Kyiv urban activists and archaeologists in a conflict between them and the city administration and a shady investor, having on 5 July voted to grant the archaeological excavations on the Poshtova...
The Kyiv city council’s new decision claims to “guarantee the preservation of the artifacts, which were found during the archaeological excavations on the construction site of the future shopping mall on Poshtova Ploshcha in...
Arkady Babchenko, a Russian opposition journalist who fled to Ukraine has been shot in his home in the evening of 29 May 2018. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. According to the spokesperson of Ukraine’s Police...
This week, three activists from the Middle Volga announced the formation of the Free Idel-Ural Movement to achieve real sovereignty for Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Mari El and Mordvinia by encouraging cooperative actions...
In 2006, 85,000 people in Ukraine were estimated to be homeless. Officially, there are around 12,000 homeless people in Kyiv alone, but the numbers are believed to be much higher. A grassroots organization called “Help the Homeless”...
Since you’re here – we have a favor to ask. Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine is ongoing, but major news agencies have gone away. But we’re here to stay, and will keep on providing quality, independent, open-access information...
Seventy-four years ago, on 6 November 1943, the Soviet army expelled the Nazi occupiers from Kyiv. Stalin ordered to seize the capital of Ukraine by the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik coup, 7 November. As the result, the losses of the...
The residents of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv have become more active in taking care of their city. This became possible due to the city’s recent moves towards a citizen participation budget system. The project Public Budget, which...
Do not expect the “immediate improvement of life” in Ukraine either today or tomorrow. It is interesting to observe the political battles in Ukraine through the prism of events in the neighboring Republic of Moldova. At the...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
